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Can Local Knowledge of Small-Scale Fishers Be Used to Monitor and Assess Changes in Marine Ecosystems in a European Context?
In the last decades, many coastal areas have observed dramatic changes in marine ecosystems, due to anthropogenic and environmental alterations. The general absence of long-term data sets in the marine environ...
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Open AccessA multidisciplinary approach to identify priority areas for the monitoring of a vulnerable family of fishes in Spanish Marine National Parks
Syngnathid fishes (Actinopterygii, Syngnathidae) are flagship species strongly associated with seaweed and seagrass habitats. Seahorses and pipefishes are highly vulnerable to anthropogenic and environmental d...
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Wave exposure as a driver of isolation by environment in the marine gastropod Nucella lapillus
The way adaptive and neutral genetic variation is shaped by environmental factors is crucial for evolutionary biology. To investigate whether wave exposure can enhance local adaptation on littoral snails, AFLP...
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Open AccessSeaweed assemblages under a climate change scenario: Functional responses to temperature of eight intertidal seaweeds match recent abundance shifts
Field evidence is essential to assess the consequences of climate change but a solid causal link often requires additional information obtained under controlled laboratory conditions. Additionally, the functio...
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Open AccessMining microsatellite markers from public expressed sequence tags databases for the study of threatened plants
Simple Sequence Repeats (SSRs) are widely used in population genetic studies but their classical development is costly and time-consuming. The ever-increasing available DNA datasets generated by high-throughpu...
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Genetic guidelines for the conservation of the endangered polyploid Centaurea borjae (Asteraceae)
Appropriate management of species of conservation concern requires designing strategies that should include genetic information as small population size and restricted geographic range can reduce genetic varia...
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Recent history of the European Nassarius nitidus (Gastropoda): phylogeographic evidence of glacial refugia and colonization pathways
Because marine species respond differentially to factors governing survival and gene flow, closely related taxa may display dissimilar phylogeographic histories. New data for the patchily distributed gastropod Na...
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Biomonitoring acidic drainage impact in a complex setting using periphyton
Acid mine drainage (AMD) often exerts various environmental pressures on nearby water courses: chemical stress from low pH and dissolved metals; physical stress from metal oxide deposits. Affected streams can ...
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Population genetic structure of the prosobranch Nassarius reticulatus (L.) in a ria seascape (NW Iberian Peninsula) as revealed by RAPD analysis
Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) banding patterns were compared between samples of the netted dogwhelk Nassarius reticulatus from 11 locations along the NW Iberian Peninsula coast. To detect if rias (est...
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Biomonitoring Heavy Metals in Estuaries: A Field Comparison of Two Brown Algae Species Inhabiting Upper Estuarine Reaches
Biomonitoring dissolved heavy metals within estuaries,particularly at their upper reaches, frequently has to relyon several biomonitors; rarely a single species thrives allalong the salinity gradient. To prope...
