Many plants, animals, and microbes use adhesive polymers and structures to attach to inert substrates, to each other, or ...
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Continue readingBuried waste on the seabed is a major source of pollution. But, very often, waste sites are not known until a serious problem ...
Continue readingCarbon and carbon dioxide always played an important role in the geobiosphere that is part of the Earth’s outer shell and ...
Continue readingCephalopods are diverse, highly developed molluscs capable of swimming and jet propulsion. These animals are an important ...
Continue readingThis volume presents a representative sample of contributions to the 41st European Marine Biology Symposium held in September ...
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Continue readingOil tankers are not the only vessels that have caused oil pollution at sea. Numerous spills in the past have been of heavy ...
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Continue readingTsunamis remain an ever-present threat to lives and property along the coasts of most of the world’s oceans. Because of ...
Continue readingThis volume includes 33 peer-reviewed papers presented at the Sixth Conference on Fish Telemetry held in Europe (Sesimbra, ...
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Continue readingMembers of the phylum Echinodermata are among the most familiar marine invertebrates. Forms such as the sea star have become ...
Continue readingEcological Informatics promotes interdisciplinary research between ecology and computer science on elucidation of principles ...
Continue readingHarmful algal blooms are one of the consequences of the human impact on aquatic ecosystems, particularly the process of eutrophication. ...
Continue readingThis is the first book that attempts to broadly integrate the most recent knowledge in the fields of hydrate nucleation and ...
Continue readingAquatic ecosystems are rich in biodiversity and home to a diverse array of species and habitats, providing a wide variety ...
Continue readingThis book studies the art and science of analyzing, assessing and anticipating environmental change. Among the issues considered ...
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