World aquaculture food production rises every year, amounting, by 2018, to another all-time
record of 82.1 million tonnes of farmed seafood, with Asia leading global production. In …

Estuaries provide important nursery and feeding habitat for numerous commercially and
ecologically important fish, however, have been historically subject to substantial habitat …

Vulnerability of coastal ecosystems has been increasing as a result of human perturbations
that compromise the ability to provide multiple ecosystem services. Vulnerability is a function …

This study assesses the occurrence of microplastics (MPs) in coastal and sea surface
sediments, as well as water samples, collected from the coastal region of the southern …

Estuaries are extremely productive systems faced with great anthropogenic pressure,
namely from contaminants of both metallic and organic nature which may affect the …

Estuaries are subjected to multiple anthropogenic stressors, which have additive,
antagonistic or synergistic effects. Current challenges include the use of large databases of …

Estuaries and other coastal habitats are considered essential for the survival of early life
stages of commercial, recreational, and other ecologically important species. While early …

Analysing the estuarine use patterns of juveniles of marine migrant fish species is vital for
identifying important sites for juveniles as well as the basic environmental features that …

Natural or anthropogenic induced variations in estuaries and the dynamics of marine fish
populations potentially promote differences in connectivity between estuaries and marine …

Bivalve histopathology is an acknowledged tool in environmental toxicology studies,
however geographically restricted, limited to a few species and still lacking the degree of …