Monthly Archives: December 2012

Despite sea cucumbers (holothurians) are common invertebrates from shallow to abyss bottoms, numerous species are relatively unknown. A recent PhD –P.G. Navarro- has just published one of the chapters from his PhD dissertation on the reproductive patterns of the sea … Continue reading →

Seagrasses provide a paramount habitat for numerous creatures that find food and shelter (structure) within seagrass canopies. Disentangling the role of ‘food’ versus ‘structure’ as drivers of faunal colonization, however, remains unresolved, while the effect of seagrass structural variation as … Continue reading →

Despite meiofaunal assemblages are key elements of any marine habitat, how do they distribute, in terms of spatial and temporal scales, remains mostly unknown. We have tested if the diversity, structure, and stability of meiofauna differ between intertidal and subtidal … Continue reading →