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Annual particulate matter and diatom export in a high nutrient, low chlorophyll area of the Southern Ocean
Upper ocean plankton assemblages are known to influence the export of carbon and biominerals from the mixed layer. However, relationships between plankton community structure and the magnitude and stoichiometr...
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Trophic Relationships in the Rhine Food Web during Invasion and after Establishment of the Ponto-Caspian Invader Dikerogammarus villosus
The Rhine ecosystem is highly influenced by anthropogenic stresses from pollution, intensive ship** and increased connectivity with other large European rivers. Canalization of the Rhine resulted in a reduct...
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Sources of organic carbon in mangrove sediments: variability and possible ecological implications
Mangrove sediments from three different mangrove ecosystems (Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary in the Godavari Delta, Andhra Pradesh, India, and Galle and Pambala, south-west Sri Lanka) were analysed for their organi...
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Primary producers sustaining macro-invertebrate communities in intertidal mangrove forests
In contrast to the large number of studies on the trophic significance of mangrove primary production to the aquatic foodweb, there have been few attempts to provide an overview of the relative importance of d...
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The use of stable carbon isotopes as tracers of ecosystem functioning in contrasting wetland ecosystems of Lake Victoria, Kenya
Aquatic macrophytes and sediments from two contrasting wetland ecosystems of Lake Victoria, Kenya (Lower Sondu Miriu and Kibos systems) were analyzed for their stable carbon isotopic composition in order to ob...
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Species inventory and the local uses of the plants and fishes of the Lower Sondu Miriu wetland of Lake Victoria, Kenya
This investigation has surveyed the plants and fishes of the Lower Sondu Miriu wetland and described their use by adjacent communities. Poverty is endemic in the area. Fish samples were caught by beach seines,...
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Origin and fate of dissolved inorganic carbon ininterstitial waters of two freshwater intertidalareas: A case study of the Scheldt Estuary, Belgium
Processes affecting the concentration and isotopiccomposition of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) wereinvestigated in pore waters of two freshwaterintertidal areas of the Scheldt Estuary, Belgium. Porewater δ13CD...
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Tracing mangrove carbon in suspended matter and aquatic fauna of the Gautami–Godavari Delta, Bay of Bengal (India)
Stable carbon isotopic composition and C/N ratio were used to trace the input of carbon associated with mangrove litter into the estuary of the Godavari–Gautami delta system and Kakinada bay (Andhra Pradesh, I...
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Carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of the fauna from the Broken Spur hydrothermal vent field
The carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of 18 faunistic groups collected during the 39th cruise of the R.V. “Akademik Mstislav Keldysh” in September 1996 at the Broken Spur vent field, MAR, was studied. ...
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Origin and fate of organic carbon in the freshwater part of the Scheldt Estuary as traced by stable carbon isotope composition
We investigated the seasonal and geographical variation in the stable carbon isotope ratios of total dissolved inorganic carbon (δ13 cdic) and suspended matter(δ 13 CPOC) in the freshwater part of the River Schel...
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Origin and fate of organic carbon in the freshwater part of the Scheldt Estuary as traced by stable carbon isotope composition
We investigated the seasonal and geographical variation in the stable carbon isotope ratios of total dissolved inorganic carbon (δ13CPOC) and suspended matter (δ13CPOC) in the freshwater part of the River Scheldt...
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Role of Godavari mangroves (India) in the production and survival of prawn larvae
The Godavari estuarine system extending over approximately316 km2 has significant annual variation of salinity dueto seasonal flooding which is mainly monsoon fed. This areahas dense vegetation of mangroves and i...
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Nitrogen enrichment during decomposition of mangrove leaf litter in an east African coastal lagoon (Kenya): Relative importance of biological nitrogen fixation
In situ decomposition of senescent leaves of twoabundant mangrove species (Rhizophora mucronataLamarck and Ceriops tagal (Perr) C.B. Rob),enrichment of nitrogen and activity of dinitrogenfixing bacteria during...
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Elemental composition of suspended matter in the Scotia-Weddell Confluence area during spring and summer 1988 (EPOS leg 2)
During austral spring and summer 1988 the upper 500 m of water column in the Scotia-Weddell Confluence was sampled for the elemental composition of total suspended matter. For particulate organic carbon surfac...
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The biological production of marine suspended barite and the barium cycle in the Western Mediterranean Sea
Suspended particulate barium was measured in the Western Mediterranean along 4 profiles sampled during the PHYCEMED 1 cruise in 1981. The non-terrigenous fraction of particulate barium (i.e. excess Ba; Baxs) can ...