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  1. The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) significantly influences marine ecosystems and the sustained exploitation of marine resources in the coastal zone of the Humboldt Current upwelling system. Both its warm...

    Authors: Sven Thatje, Olaf Heilmayer and Jürgen Laudien
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2008 62(Suppl 1):104

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 62 Supplement 1

  2. Weekly measurements of mesozooplankton (>76 μm) and hydrographic parameters have been carried out since 1984 in the List Tidal Basin (northern Wadden Sea). Monthly water temperature significantly increased by ...

    Authors: Peter Martens and Justus E. E. van Beusekom
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2008 62:97
  3. Macrozoobenthos communities in the North Sea showed pronounced changes over the past decade in relation to an increasing number of invasive species and climate change. We analysed data sets spanning 22 years o...

    Authors: Heike Büttger, Harald Asmus, Ragnhild Asmus, Christian Buschbaum, Sabine Dittmann and Georg Nehls
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2008 62:99
  4. Macrocystis integrifolia and Lessonia trabeculata form vast kelp beds providing a three-dimensional habitat for a diverse invertebrate and fish fauna off northern Chile. Habitat modifications caused by the El Niñ...

    Authors: Mario J. Villegas, Jürgen Laudien, Walter Sielfeld and Wolf E. Arntz
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2007 62(Suppl 1):96

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  5. Interannual environmental variability in Peru is dominated by the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO). The most dramatic changes are associated with the warm El Niño (EN) phase (opposite the cold La Niña phase...

    Authors: Marc H. Taylor, Matthias Wolff, Flora Vadas and Carmen Yamashiro
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2007 62(Suppl 1):93

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 62 Supplement 1

  6. Despite a large amount of climatic and oceanographic information dealing with the recurring climate phenomenon El Niño (EN) and its well known impact on diversity of marine benthic communities, most published ...

    Authors: Rodrigo A. Moreno, Roger D. Sepúlveda, Ernesto I. Badano, Sven Thatje, Nicolás Rozbaczylo and Franklin D. Carrasco
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2007 62(Suppl 1):95

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 62 Supplement 1

  7. The hypothesis of a recent reversal in the eutrophication of the Wadden Sea and the potential of inshore waters in denitrification is explored. Salinity, temperature and nitrate concentrations in the List Tida...

    Authors: Justus E. E. van Beusekom, Sieglinde Weigelt-Krenz and Peter Martens
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2007 62:92
  8. We investigated potential changes in the metazoan endoparasite fauna in the northern Wadden Sea during the past 4 decades by compiling published studies, reports and original data. During the time considered, ...

    Authors: David W. Thieltges, Birgit Hussel, Judith Hermann, K. Thomas Jensen, Manuela Krakau, Horst Taraschewski and Karsten Reise
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2007 62:91
  9. The European Wadden Sea is characterized by high nutrient loads and turbid waters. Riverine nutrient input showed a gradual decrease since the mid 1980s. In the List Tidal Basin (Northern Wadden Sea) the frequ...

    Authors: Martina Loebl, Franciscus Colijn and Justus E. E. van Beusekom
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2007 62:89
  10. Vertical distribution and diel vertical migration of a zooplankton community were studied at two stations off Central Peru in April 2006. Zooplankton was collected at five depth strata by vertical hauls with H...

    Authors: M. I. Criales-Hernández, R. Schwamborn, M. Graco, P. Ayón, H.-J. Hirche and M. Wolff
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2007 62(Suppl 1):94

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 62 Supplement 1

  11. Where, since the 1980s, patchy and variable green algal mats are prevailing, distinct belts of an amphipod (Corophium volutator) and seagrass (Zostera spp.) had dominated in the 1930s. The zonation between tide m...

    Authors: Karsten Reise, Elisabeth Herre and Manfred Sturm
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2007 62:87
  12. Echinolittorina peruviana is the most common gastropod in the high intertidal zone of Peru, representing more than 80% of the individuals present at that zone. Experimental removal of snails was used to evaluate ...

    Authors: Fernando J. Hidalgo, Fausto N. Firstater, Eugenia Fanjul, M. Cielo Bazterrica, Betina J. Lomovasky, Juan Tarazona and Oscar O. Iribarne
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2007 62(Suppl 1):86

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 62 Supplement 1

  13. Cymatium (Monoplex) keenae Beu, 1970, the neopolitan triton, is a Ranellidae predator distributed in tropical and subtropical waters. In this study we report this species for the first time in Antofagasta Bay, no...

    Authors: Tom Ashton, Jose M. Riascos and Aldo Pacheco
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2007 62(Suppl 1):84

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 62 Supplement 1

  14. The population dynamics of the “cholga” Cardita affinis (Sowerby 1833) from Málaga Bay, Colombia, was studied from December 1999 to February 2002, which included the 1999–2000 La Niña event (LN) and the post-LN p...

    Authors: José M. Riascos, Olaf Heilmayer and Jürgen Laudien
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2007 62(Suppl 1):83

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 62 Supplement 1

  15. Prevalence and intensity changes in cystacanths of the acanthocephalan Profilicollis altmani parasitizing the mole crab Emerita analoga under El Niño (EN) and non-El Niño (non-EN) conditions are analyzed. Both, m...

    Authors: Marcelo E. Oliva, Irene Barrios, Sven Thatje and Jürgen Laudien
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2007 62(Suppl 1):82

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 62 Supplement 1

  16. Stable isotopes were used to examine the origin of organic matter in Icelandic Ascophyllum-based habitats, the role of different organic matters in filling intertidal food webs and the food preferences of the mos...

    Authors: G. Sarà, M. De Pirro, C. Romano, P. Rumolo, M. Sprovieri and A. Mazzola
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2007 61:78
  17. The harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) is widely distributed in the North Sea. During both the SCANS 1994 and 2005 surveys, porpoises were commonly encountered in offshore waters, for example in the central Ger...

    Authors: Frank Thomsen, Martin Laczny and Werner Piper
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2007 61:75
  18. Temporal and spatial variability of micro and mesozooplankton was studied in 1998 and 1999 at four stations in the Neretva Channel area influenced by the Neretva river and the open waters of the south Adriatic...

    Authors: Olja Vidjak, Natalia Bojanić, Grozdan Kušpilić, Živana Ninčević Gladan and Vjekoslav Tičina
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2007 61:74
  19. One new kinorhynch genus and species and one new species from the genus Zelinkaderes are described from sandy sediment off Fort Pierce, Florida. The new genus and species, Tubulideres seminoli gen. et sp. nov. is...

    Authors: Martin V. Sørensen, Iben Heiner, Ole Ziemer and Birger Neuhaus
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2007 61:73
  20. This paper provides first information on organ-like bacterial aggregates in the tentacles of the sea anemone Metridium senile. The specimens were collected from waters near Helgoland (German Bight, North Sea) and...

    Authors: Christian Schuett, Hilke Doepke, Annette Grathoff and Michael Gedde
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2007 61:69
  21. Parasites were collected from 107 harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) found on the coasts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, between 1997 and 2000. The prevalence of the parasites and their associated pathology were inve...

    Authors: K. Lehnert, J. A. Raga and U. Siebert
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2007 61:72
  22. A new species of Neopetitia San Martín, 2003 is described from intertidal and shallow subtidal soft-bottom stations on the eastern and western coast of Tenerife, Canary Islands. The new species is characterized b...

    Authors: Rodrigo Riera, Jorge Núñez and María del Carmen Brito
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2007 61:71
  23. Reproductive traits at the beginning and the end of the annual reproductive season were compared between two populations of the intertidal crab Chasmagnathus granulatus living in ecologically contrasting habitats...

    Authors: Claudia C. Bas, Eduardo D. Spivak and Klaus Anger
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2007 61:70
  24. Herbivory is a key factor in regulating plant biomass, thereby driving ecosystem performance. Algae have developed multiple adaptations to cope with grazers, including morphological and chemical defences. In a...

    Authors: Hee Young Yun, Joana Cruz, Michaela Treitschke, Martin Wahl and Markus Molis
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2007 61:67
  25. Although combining datasets is often needed to unravel large-scale or long-term patterns in benthos ecology, this is frequently hampered by differences in technical design of the individual studies. One elemen...

    Authors: S. Degraer, I. Moulaert, G. Van Hoey and M. Vincx
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2007 61:62
  26. The macrozoobenthos of Mejillones Bay (23°S; Humboldt Current) was quantitatively investigated over a 7-year period from austral summer 1995/1996 to winter 2002. About 78 van Veen grab samples taken at six sta...

    Authors: Jürgen Laudien, Manuel E. Rojo, Marcelo E. Oliva, Wolf E. Arntz and Sven Thatje
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2007 61:57
  27. For sea slugs, chemosensory information represents an important sensory modality, because optical and acoustical information are limited. In the present study, we focussed on the neuroanatomy of the rhinophore...

    Authors: Adrian Wertz, Wolfgang Rössler, Malu Obermayer and Ulf Bickmeyer
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2007 61:61
  28. The horse-bearded mussel Modiolus barbatus (Linneus, 1758) is an important edible bivalve in the Adriatic Sea; its population is especially large in the Mali Ston Bay area, where the species is present at depths ...

    Authors: Ivona Mladineo, Melita Peharda, Stjepan Orhanović, Jakša Bolotin, Maja Pavela-Vrančić and Barbara Treursić
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2007 61:65
  29. Specimens of a new species of Loricifera, Spinoloricus turbatio gen. et sp. nov., have been collected at the Galápagos Spreading Center (GSC) during the cruise SO 158, which is a part of the MEGAPRINT project. Th...

    Authors: Iben Heiner and Birger Neuhaus
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2007 61:64
  30. Thecadinium yashimaense was recorded for the first time in France, Great Britain, The Netherlands, and Germany. The invasion and establishment of the species in the German Bight was documented reliably and is pre...

    Authors: Mona Hoppenrath, Malte Elbrächter, Hannelore Halliger, Reinoud P. T. Koeman, Alexander Krakhmalnyy, Barbara Surek, Katrin Erler and Bernd Luckas
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2007 61:63
  31. This study summarizes the activities and findings during a 2 year investigation on the grow-out of blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) and the technical requirements to withstand harsh weather conditions at an offshore...

    Authors: Bela Hieronymus Buck
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2007 61:56
  32. To understand the background of the strong variation and recent decline of stocks and production of mussels (Mytilus edulis) on tidal flats of the Wadden Sea, we analysed long-term (twice-annual for 26 years) and...

    Authors: J. J. Beukema and R. Dekker
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2007 61:54
  33. After the discovery of large densities of Mnemiopsis leidyi in the Baltic Sea near Kiel by Javidpour et al. (First record of Mnemiopsis leidyi A. Agassiz 1865 in the Baltic Sea, 2006) in October 2006, we investig...

    Authors: Maarten Boersma, Arne M. Malzahn, Wulf Greve and Jamileh Javidpour
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2007 61:55
  34. Collelungo beach (Maremma Park, NW Italy), was sampled quantitatively for macrofauna, meiofauna and bacteria in May 2003; several physicochemical variables and variables associated with food availability and s...

    Authors: Nafsika Papageorgiou, Mariapaola Moreno, Valentina Marin, Susanna Baiardo, Christos Arvanitidis, Mauro Fabiano and Anastasios Eleftheriou
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2006 61:51
  35. D. João de Castro Bank (DJC) is a shallow seamount with hydrothermal activity located between the islands of Terceira and São Miguel, Azores (Portugal). A survey of the molluscan fauna was conducted in this pe...

    Authors: Sérgio P. Ávila, Frederico Cardigos and Ricardo Serrão Santos
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2006 61:52
  36. Polychaetes inhabiting 12 different hard bottom habitats were studied. A total of 157 species belonging to 32 families were identified. Differences among habitats in polychaete density, species richness, and d...

    Authors: Alberto Serrano and Izaskun Preciado
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2006 61:50
  37. The native East Asian shrimp Palaemon macrodactylus has become a common inhabitant of estuaries along the Pacific coast of North America. More recently (documented since 1999), the species has also been colonisin...

    Authors: E. González-Ortegón, J. A. Cuesta and C. D. Schubart
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2006 61:48
  38. We conducted an ecological study of a population of the polychaete Abarenicola affinis chiliensis in the shallow subtidal zone of Caleta Guardiamarina Riquelme in northern Chile. The study area is characterized b...

    Authors: Rodrigo A. Moreno, Nicolás Rozbaczylo, Roger D. Sepúlveda, Milko I. Marinkovic, Wolf E. Arntz and Sven Thatje
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2006 61:47
  39. We provide a quantitative inventory of macroparasites in intertidal molluscs from a tidal basin in the Wadden Sea (eastern North Sea). Gastropods and bivalves contained a species rich macroparasite community c...

    Authors: David W. Thieltges, Manuela Krakau, Henrike Andresen, Silke Fottner and Karsten Reise
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2006 60:46