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  1. Iron (Fe) is an essential component for marine ecosystems, and it is related to the growth of phytoplankton communities and environmental evolution in coastal area. However, the effect of aquaculture activitie...

    Authors: Baoyi Zhang, Manyi Li, Maoguo An, Chenglong Zhi, Qingcai Li, Yingmei Zhang, Shuangyuan Han, Haitao Zheng, Jun Li, Huaixin Chen and Qiao Chen
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2021 75:9
  2. According to COI DNA barcoding testing, the marine bivalve mollusc Mactra chinensis, which is native to the Asia-Pacific region, diverged into three species. These species were preliminary characterized as M. chi...

    Authors: Arkadiy Reunov, Konstantin Lutaenko, Evgenia Vekhova, Junlong Zhang, Evgeny Zakharov, Svetlana Sharina, Yana Alexandrova, Yulia Reunova, Anna Akhmadieva and Andrey Adrianov
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2021 75:7
  3. Supratidal sands are vitally important for coastal defence in the German Wadden Sea. They are less affected by human activities than other areas as they are located far off the mainland shore, touristical and ...

    Authors: Sarina Schmidt and Joachim Schönfeld
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2021 75:6
  4. Concrete is a widely used building material in coastal constructions worldwide. However, limited natural resources used in the production process, as well as high CO2-emission due to the calcination process of li...

    Authors: Lydia R. Becker, Ingrid Kröncke, Andreas Ehrenberg, Volkert Feldrappe and Kai Bischof
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2021 75:5
  5. Crustacean larvae have served as distinguished models in the field of Ecological Developmental Biology (“EcoDevo”) for many decades, a discipline that examines how developmental mechanisms and their resulting ...

    Authors: G. Torres, R. R. Melzer, F. Spitzner, Z. Šargač, S. Harzsch and L. Gimenez
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2021 75:3
  6. Cells and tissues form the bewildering diversity of crustacean larval organ systems which are necessary for these organisms to autonomously survive in the plankton. For the developmental biologist, decapod cru...

    Authors: R. R. Melzer, F. Spitzner, Z. Šargač, M. K. Hörnig, J. Krieger, C. Haug, J. T. Haug, T. Kirchhoff, R. Meth, G. Torres and S. Harzsch
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2021 75:2
  7. Among the ecological roles that sponges play in marine ecosystems, one of the highlights is their ability to host a wide diversity and abundance of epibenthic organisms. However, of the different marine enviro...

    Authors: Antony E. Briceño-Vera, Enrique Ávila, María A. Rodríguez-Santiago and Alejandro Ruiz-Marín
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2021 75:1
  8. Sponges are one of the most conspicuous groups of epibionts in mangrove prop root habitats. However, with the exception of the Caribbean and the Indo-Pacific regions, studies focused on species diversity are l...

    Authors: Pedro de Jesús Castellanos-Pérez, Laura Elena Vázquez-Maldonado, Enrique Ávila, José Antonio Cruz-Barraza and Julio César Canales-Delgadillo
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2020 74:13
  9. The Norway lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, is an important fisheries species in the North-East Atlantic area. In some circumstances, mature females of Nephrops norvegicus can resorb their ovary rather than completi...

    Authors: Carola Becker, Jaimie T. A. Dick, E. Mánus Cunningham, Mathieu Lundy, Ewen Bell, Lawrence Eagling and Julia D. Sigwart
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2020 74:12
  10. Carrier culture is the combination of suspension culture and adherent culture. Carriers could be used to improve the culture efficiency of large-scale culture of adherent benthic diatom. In order to identify a...

    Authors: Aili Jiang, Heng Ji, Hengxu Liu, Huimin Zhu, Guofeng Ai and Xiaochen Guo
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2020 74:11
  11. Salmonines in the Baltic Sea and North American lakes suffer from thiamine (vitamin B1) deficiency, which is connected to an abundant lipid-rich diet containing substantial amounts of polyunsaturated fatty aci...

    Authors: Pekka J. Vuorinen, Mervi Rokka, Tiina Ritvanen, Reijo Käkelä, Soili Nikonen, Tapani Pakarinen and Marja Keinänen
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2020 74:10
  12. In marine systems, algal abundance and community composition is often heavily influenced by top-down control by herbivores. As a result, examining the extent to which native herbivores exert grazing pressure o...

    Authors: Nikolas J. Kaplanis, Jill L. Harris and Jennifer E. Smith
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2020 74:9
  13. Crustacean larvae are usually recognised as small organisms, below one millimeter body size. However, in different crustacean groups such as Stomatopoda, Polychelida, or Achelata, also very large larvae occur ...

    Authors: Paula Gundi, Chiara Cecchin, Lara-Leonie Fetzer, Carolin Haug, Roland R. Melzer and Joachim T. Haug
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2020 74:8
  14. Tropical reef ecosystems are generally considered to be sinks of marine zooplankton, mainly due to the predation by scleractinian corals and other planktivores. The present study aims to evaluate the zooplankt...

    Authors: Morgana Brito-Lolaia, Gleice S. Santos, Sigrid Neumann-Leitão and Ralf Schwamborn
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2020 74:7
  15. The biology of the scleractinian Porites sverdrupi, endemic to the Gulf of California, is poorly studied. In order to fill that gap, the present study documents the reproductive biology of this coral which is to ...

    Authors: Violeta Martínez-Castillo, Alma Paola Rodríguez-Troncoso, Héctor Reyes-Bonilla, Carlos Augusto Aguilar-Cruz and Carlos Rangel-Dávalos
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2020 74:6
  16. Development of the unmanaged waved whelk (Buccinum undatum) fishery on the Mid-Atlantic continental shelf of the United States has initiated investigation into fisheries-related biological and population attribut...

    Authors: Sarah Borsetti, Daphne Munroe, David Rudders and Jui-Han Chang
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2020 74:5
  17. In this study, antifouling and antibacterial properties of polar, semi polar and non-polar bioactive compounds derived from the sea cucumber Holothuria leucospilota were investigated. A series comprising n-hexane...

    Authors: Mehrnoosh Darya, Mir Masoud Sajjadi, Morteza Yousefzadi, Iman Sourinejad and Maaroof Zarei
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2020 74:4
  18. Ocean acidification has become serious, and seawater hypoxia has become evident in acidified waters. The combination of such stressors may have interactive effects on the fitness of marine organisms. In order ...

    Authors: Xinghuo Wang, Yueyong Shang, Hui Kong, Menghong Hu, Jinlong Yang, Yuewen Deng and Youji Wang
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2020 74:3
  19. Even though Glycymeris longior is a clam widely distributed in the SW Atlantic Ocean, little is known about its biology and life history. The present study assessed the periodicity of the internal growth incremen...

    Authors: Lucas H. Gimenez, María del Socorro Doldan, Paula C. Zaidman and Enrique M. Morsan
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2020 74:2
  20. Since its introduction from North America in the 1970s, the American razor clam Ensis leei (M. Huber, 2015) has successfully spread throughout North Sea coasts from Spain to Norway and the United Kingdom to the w...

    Authors: Johanna Kottsieper, Philipp Schwemmer, Nele Markones, Anthony D. Fox and Stefan Garthe
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2019 73:11
  21. Analysis of 322 cuttlebones of Sepia bertheloti caught in the waters of the Northwest Africa showed significant differences in growth between males and females. Morphometric analysis revealed a relatively differe...

    Authors: Airam Guerra-Marrero, David Jiménez-Alvarado, Vicente Hernández-García, Leticia Curbelo-Muñoz and José Juan Castro-Hernández
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2019 73:10
  22. The Helgoland Roads time series is one of the longest and most detailed time series in the world. It comprises daily phytoplankton counts accompanied by physico-chemical measurements. As such, it provides valu...

    Authors: Alexandra Kraberg, Ute Kieb, Silvia Peters and Karen Helen Wiltshire
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2019 73:9
  23. For a better understanding of functioning and stability of ecosystems, it is important to know to what extent constituent species show similarity in their long-term fluctuation patterns, i.e. whether their num...

    Authors: J. J. Beukema and R. Dekker
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2019 73:8
  24. Predation is an interaction between species that influences community organisation by the direct consumption of prey, influencing prey numbers, behaviours and traits. The intensity of predation is greatly infl...

    Authors: Marcos M. Nogueira, Elizabeth Neves and Rodrigo Johnsson
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2019 73:7
  25. The southernmost permanent population of the fiddler crab Leptuca uruguayensis occurs along the Samborombón Bay (36°22′S, 56°45′W, Argentina), an important feeding site for many bird species, including ruddy turn...

    Authors: Pablo D. Ribeiro, Diego D. Navarro, Luciano M. Jaureguy, Pedro Daleo and Oscar O. Iribarne
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2019 73:6
  26. Sea urchin grazing rates can strongly impact kelp bed persistence. Elevated water temperature associated with climate change may increase grazing rates; however, these effects may interact with local stressors...

    Authors: Sarah B. Traiger
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2019 73:5
  27. Despite the availability of well-documented data, a comprehensive review of the discovery progress of polychaete worms (Annelida) has never been done. In the present study, we reviewed available data in the Wo...

    Authors: Joko Pamungkas, Christopher J. Glasby, Geoffrey B. Read, Simon P. Wilson and Mark J. Costello
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2019 73:4
  28. During 2015–2016, a strong El Niño, the “Godzilla El Niño,” which is similar to El Niño events that occurred in 1982/1983 and 1997/1998, occurred in the Pacific Ocean. In this paper, we report on the influence...

    Authors: Erik Coria-Monter, David Alberto Salas de León, María Adela Monreal-Gómez and Elizabeth Durán-Campos
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2019 73:3
  29. Diatoms are thought to provide about 40% of total global photosynthesis and diatoms of the genus Coscinodiscus are an important, sometimes dominant, cosmopolitan component of the marine diatom community. The oomy...

    Authors: Anthony Buaya, Alexandra Kraberg and Marco Thines
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2019 73:2
  30. Fish harbor a high diversity of parasites that play an important role for the ecosystem. Because these parasites have different life-cycle traits, changes in their populations or communities may provide useful...

    Authors: Francisco N. Morales-Serna, María A. Rodríguez-Santiago, Rolando Gelabert and Luz M. Flores-Morales
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2019 73:1
  31. The sea hare Bursatella leachii (de Blainville 1817) (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Aplysiidae) is a pantropical sea slug that has colonized the Mediterranean Sea in modern times. Because the initial reco...

    Authors: Enrico Bazzicalupo, Fabio Crocetta, Ka‘ala Estores-Pacheco, Haleh Golestani, Hocein Bazairi, Salvatore Giacobbe, Andrej Jaklin, Dimitris Poursanidis, B. K. Sneha Chandran, Juan Lucas Cervera and Ángel Valdés
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2018 72:19
  32. Most of our planet’s biodiversity is still unknown, particularly in the sea. Although around the island of Sylt in the North Sea, the small zoobenthos (meiofauna) has been studied intensively since the 1950s, ...

    Authors: Werner Armonies
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2018 72:18
  33. Marine organism adaptive capacity to different environmental conditions is a research priority to understand what conditions are important in structuring the spatial distribution of natural populations. In thi...

    Authors: Jesús Darío Nuñez, Pedro Fernández Iriarte, Emiliano Hernán Ocampo, Enrique Madrid and Maximiliano Cledón
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2018 72:16
  34. The introduction of non-indigenous species (NIS) in new environments represents a major threat for coastal ecosystems. A good understanding of the mechanisms and magnitude of the impact of NIS colonisation on ...

    Authors: Léa Riera, Patrício Ramalhosa, João Canning-Clode and Ignacio Gestoso
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2018 72:15
  35. The sudden appearance and disappearance of nudibranchs in intertidal areas have puzzled researchers all over the world, giving rise to a great diversity of theories to explain it. Here we conducted a five-year...

    Authors: Ricardo Cyrne, Inês C. Rosa, Filipa Faleiro, Gisela Dionísio, Miguel Baptista, Ana Couto, Marta Pola and Rui Rosa
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2018 72:14
  36. Marine invasions are of increasing concern for biodiversity conservation worldwide. Gelatinous macrozooplankton contain members, which have become globally invasive, for example the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi o...

    Authors: Cornelia Jaspers, Bastian Huwer, Nancy Weiland-Bräuer and Catriona Clemmesen
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2018 72:13
  37. Epibenthic and benthopelagic medusae are rarely collected by standard benthic or pelagic sampling methods, and many species are considered uncommon and geographically restricted. Peer-reviewed scientific liter...

    Authors: Luis Martell, Anne Helene S. Tandberg and Aino Hosia
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2018 72:12
  38. Based on the past 150 years of research and ongoing time-series observations we give a comprehensive overview of marine species composition around the island of Sylt in the eastern North Sea. A total of 2758 s...

    Authors: Werner Armonies, Harald Asmus, Christian Buschbaum, Dagmar Lackschewitz, Karsten Reise and Johannes Rick
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2018 72:11
  39. Mussel attachment strength varies in space and time, frequently in association with variations in wave exposure. Yet, it remains uninvestigated whether different rock types can contribute to variation in musse...

    Authors: Jorge L. Gutiérrez, María Bagur, Lorena P. Arribas and M. Gabriela Palomo
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2018 72:10
  40. According to recent reports, shell morphology is unreliable for the identification of oysters because of the high phenotypic plasticity of these bivalves. Using COI DNA barcoding and sperm morphology, we reinv...

    Authors: Arkadiy Reunov, Evgenia Vekhova, Evgeny Zakharov, Yulia Reunova, Yana Alexandrova, Svetlana Sharina and Andrey Adrianov
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2018 72:8
  41. Many fish species have behavioral traits related to reproduction that aim to improve egg conditions and survival of early life stages. Here, we provide the first detailed description of reproductive strategies...

    Authors: José Amorim Reis-Filho and Antoine O. H. C. Leduc
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2018 72:7
  42. The South African coastline can be divided into at least four temperature-defined marine bioregions, including the tropical north-east coast, the subtropical east coast, the warm-temperate south coast, and the...

    Authors: Candice M. Jooste, Jody Oliver, Arsalan Emami-Khoyi and Peter R. Teske
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2018 72:6
  43. The present compilation is the first attempt to generate a comprehensive list of all macrozoobenthic species recorded at least once in the German regions of the North Sea and Baltic Sea including non-indigenou...

    Authors: Michael L. Zettler, Jan Beermann, Jennifer Dannheim, Brigitte Ebbe, Michael Grotjahn, Carmen-Pia Günther, Manuela Gusky, Britta Kind, Ingrid Kröncke, Ralph Kuhlenkamp, Claus Orendt, Eike Rachor, Anja Schanz, Alexander Schröder, Lisa Schüler and Jan Witt
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2018 72:5
  44. Recruitment patterns of sessile species often do not reflect the composition of the local propagule pool. This is, among other processes, attributed to the stimulation or inhibition of settlement by resident s...

    Authors: I. Krüger, M. Lenz and M. Thiel
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2018 72:4
  45. The brooding gastropod Crepipatella dilatata can feed by scraping the substrate with the radula and by suspension-feeding, which also requires use of the radula. There is a “division of labour” for the radula amo...

    Authors: O. R. Chaparro, J. A. Montory, C. J. Segura, V. M. Cubillos, L. P. Salas-Yanquin and R. J. Thompson
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2018 72:3