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Tracing Groundwater Sources in Coastal Food Webs: Nitrogen and Carbon Isotope Values in Mussels in a Mediterranean Lagoon
While the role that groundwater discharge plays in supporting primary production in coastal ecosystems is well recognized, there is still limited evidence on its impacts higher up the food chain. In this study...
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Open AccessMission Tara Microplastics: a holistic set of protocols and data resources for the field investigation of plastic pollution along the land-sea continuum in Europe
The Tara Microplastics mission was conducted for 7 months to investigate plastic pollution along nine major rivers in Europe—Thames, Elbe, Rhine, Seine, Loire, Garonne, Ebro, Rhone, and Tiber. An extensive suite ...
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New insights into oyster high-resolution hinge growth patterns
While oyster shells are one of the most common mollusks used for the analysis of (paleo)environmental and (paleo)climatic records based on geochemical proxies, high-resolution growth rate changes still need to...
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36 Growth Patterns of Mediterranean Calcifying Cold-Water Corals
Skeletal growth is a key physiological function, which in the case of calcifying organisms, provides support for the general colony structure together, whilst simultaneously providing protection for internal s...
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38 Cold-Water Coral in Aquaria: Advances and Challenges. A Focus on the Mediterranean
Knowledge on basic biological functions of organisms is essential to understand not only the role they play in the ecosystems but also to manage and protect their populations. The study of biological processes...
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Chalky versus foliated: a discriminant immunogold labelling of shell microstructures in the edible oyster Crassostrea gigas
Mollusc shells are organic–inorganic biocomposites, arranged in a limited number of superimposed calcified layers that generally exhibit very different organization of their crystallites. Because of their attr...
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The “Turritella Layer”: A Potential Proxy of a Drastic Holocene Environmental Change on the North–East Atlantic Coast
A collection of data including sub-bottom VHR seismic (Seistec boomer), bathymetry and cores, was conducted in three sea lochs of the north west coast of Scotland, as part of an investigation of the sedimentol...
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Middle Lutetian climate in the Paris Basin: implications for a marine hotspot of paleobiodiversity
The present study reports the evolution of environmental conditions and seawater temperatures during the establishment of a marine hotspot of paleobiodiversity that took place in the Paris Basin during the Lut...
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Influence of food supply on the δ13C signature of mollusc shells: implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstitutions
Compared to oxygen isotopes, the carbon isotope composition of biogenic carbonates is less commonly used as proxy for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions because shell δ13C is derived from both dissolved inorgani...
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A latitudinal gradient of seasonal temperature variation recorded in oyster shells from the coastal waters of France and The Netherlands
Cathodoluminescence (CL) microscopy of the foliated calcite shell hinge sections of live-collected oyster Crassostrea gigas collected at seven locations along a latitudinal gradient from the Netherlands in the No...
