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  1. In the marine environment, control of invasive species’ population levels, that is, keeping them at an abundance level which is below a density-dependent adverse effect, may be the most attainable goal for the...

    Authors: J. Micael, N. Jardim, C. Núñez, A. Occhipinti-Ambrogi and A. C. Costa
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2016 70:7
  2. Linear growth of soft-shell clams, Mya arenaria L., was studied at six locations in the White Sea situated in the middle and low tidal zones. The main aim was to analyse the growth heterogeneity both within beds ...

    Authors: Alexandra V. Gerasimova, Fedor M. Martynov, Nadezhda A. Filippova and Nikolay V. Maximovich
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2016 70:6
  3. The morphology of gill-cleaning structures is not well described in European lobster (Homarus gammarus). Furthermore, the magnitude and time scale of microbial proliferation on gill structures is unknown to date...

    Authors: Karen L. Middlemiss, Mauricio A. Urbina and Rod W. Wilson
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2015 69:445
  4. During a 3-year field study, interspecific and interannual differences in the trophic ecology of littoral fish species were investigated in the rocky intertidal of Helgoland island (North Sea). We investigated...

    Authors: N. N. Hielscher, A. M. Malzahn, R. Diekmann and N. Aberle
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2015 69:444
  5. Simultaneous abundance or shortage of mussels over vast areas may seriously affect fishery as well as shellfish-eating birds. We studied synchrony in annual recruit numbers and stock sizes (biomass) of mussels...

    Authors: J. J. Beukema, R. Dekker, M. R. van Stralen and J. de Vlas
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2015 69:440
  6. This paper presents the results of studies on endangered and rare non-commercial fish species (Spinachia spinachia, Nerophis ophidion, Syngnathus typhle, Agonus cataphractus, Pholis gunnellus, Enchelyopus cimbriu...

    Authors: Beata Więcaszek, Ewa Sobecka, Sławomir Keszka, Katarzyna Stepanowska, Stanisław Dudko, Marcin Biernaczyk and Konrad Wrzecionkowski
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2015 69:442
  7. Geographic variation of phenotypic traits is common across species and is often associated with variation in environmental conditions. Here, we found larger bodies and larger size at maturity in a northward, ...

    Authors: José Jonathas Pereira Rodrigues de Lira, Tereza Cristina dos Santos Calado, Carla Ferreira Rezende and José Roberto Feitosa Silva
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2015 69:441
  8. The invasive non-native gastropod Crepidula fornicata is well established in the Milford Haven Waterway (MHW) in south-west Wales, UK, since its first introduction to this ria in 1953. Whilst it reaches high dens...

    Authors: Katrin Bohn, Christopher A. Richardson and Stuart R. Jenkins
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2015 69:439
  9. The interannual variation (2010–2013) of larval abundance, growth and hatching patterns of the Chilean sand stargazer Sindoscopus australis (Pisces: Dactyloscopidae) was investigated through otolith microstructur...

    Authors: Camilo Rodríguez-Valentino, Mauricio F. Landaeta, Gissella Castillo-Hidalgo, Claudia A. Bustos, Guido Plaza and F. Patricio Ojeda
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2015 69:438
  10. In recent years, several morphological and molecular analyses have been undertaken to study the phylogenetic systematics of Aeolidiidae members. The monospecific genus Burnaia could not be included in the previou...

    Authors: Leila Carmona, Marta Pola, Terrence M. Gosliner and Juan Lucas Cervera
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2015 69:437
  11. Egg characteristics of teleost fishes are affected by various abiotic and biotic factors. In order to reproduce successfully, freshwater fishes inhabiting brackish environments must alter their reproductive ch...

    Authors: Roland Svirgsden, Anu Albert, Mehis Rohtla, Imre Taal, Lauri Saks, Aare Verliin, Martin Kesler, Kalvi Hubel, Markus Vetemaa and Toomas Saat
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2015 69:436
  12. In a world full of chemicals, many crustaceans rely on elaborate olfactory systems to guide behaviors related to finding food or to assess the presence of conspecifics and predators. We analyzed the responses ...

    Authors: Matthes Kenning, Philipp Lehmann, Magnus Lindström and Steffen Harzsch
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2015 69:435
  13. We morphologically analyzed 79 cephalopod specimens from the North and Baltic Seas belonging to 13 separate species. Another 29 specimens showed morphological features of either Alloteuthis mediaor Alloteuthis su...

    Authors: Katharina Gebhardt and Thomas Knebelsberger
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2015 69:434
  14. Intraspecific polymorphism during development, such as poecilogony or dispersal polymorphism, has rarely been observed in the marine environment. The ecological advantages of this bet-hedging strategy, whereby...

    Authors: Kathryn E. Smith, Adam J. Reed and Sven Thatje
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2015 69:433
  15. Tanaidaceans are small benthic crustaceans with a strictly benthic life cycle and low dispersion rates, so they are good candidates to evaluate the effects of environment over life history strategies and repr...

    Authors: Carlos E. Rumbold, Sandra M. Obenat and Eduardo D. Spivak
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2015 69:432
  16. Coral habitat structures increase abundance and richness of organisms by providing niches, easy access to resources and refuge from predators. Corals harbor a great variety of animals; the variation in coral ...

    Authors: Marcos M. Nogueira, Elizabeth Neves and Rodrigo Johnsson
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2015 69:431
  17. This paper describes a new species of Stenothoe (Amphipoda, Stenothoidae), S. boloceropsis sp. nov., collected among the tentacles of the sea anemone Boloceropsis platei Mc Murrich, 1904, found on sublittoral san...

    Authors: T. Krapp-Schickel, V. Häussermann and W. Vader
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2015 69:430
  18. A new species of polycerid nudibranchs of the genus Tambja is described from Mallorca Island (Spain) and Malta. So far, only two species of Tambja had been recorded in the Mediterranean Sea with a distribution li...

    Authors: M. Domínguez, M. Pola and M. Ramón
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2015 69:429
  19. Species within the diatom genus Pseudo-nitzschia (Peragallo) have been identified as producers of domoic acid, the toxin responsible for amnesic shellfish poisoning. Toxin- and non-toxin-producing species of Pse...

    Authors: Eileen Bresnan, Alexandra Kraberg, Sheila Fraser, Lyndsay Brown, Sarah Hughes and Karen H. Wiltshire
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2015 69:428
  20. In the present study, the distribution and abundance of microphytoplankton were assessed in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean from subtropical to polar waters (34°–62°S) in two austral springs with contrasting h...

    Authors: Héctor F. Olguín Salinas, Frederico Brandini and Demetrio Boltovskoy
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2015 69:427
  21. Filtration capacity and feeding behaviour has been intensely studied for adult mussels (Mytilus edulis), but less information is available for juvenile mussels (1.5–25 mm, <1 year), especially in natural sea wate...

    Authors: P. Jacobs, K. Troost, R. Riegman and J. van der Meer
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2015 69:419
  22. In October 2010, specimens of Oithona were taken from the List Tidal Basin in the northern Wadden Sea (North Sea) for a biogeographic study on Oithona similis. These specimens could not be assigned to O. similis ...

    Authors: Astrid Cornils and Britta Wend-Heckmann
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2015 69:426
  23. Salinity strongly influences development and distribution of the sea star Asterias rubens. In Kiel Fjord, located in the western Baltic Sea, A. rubens is the only echinoderm species and one of the main benthic p...

    Authors: Isabel Casties, Catriona Clemmesen, Frank Melzner and Jörn Thomsen
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2015 69:425
  24. In Otago, southern New Zealand, the lugworm Abarenicola affinis resides in neighbouring tidal inlets with and without seagrass (Zostera muelleri). A comparison of abundance, body size and biomass of A. affinis b...

    Authors: Stefan Goerlitz, Katrin Berkenbusch and P. Keith Probert
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2015 69:424
  25. Protaeolidiella atra Baba, 1955 and Pleurolidia juliae Burn, 1966 are two species traditionally regarded as the members of Aeolidiidae but recently attributed to Facelinidae. Because of their app...

    Authors: Leila Carmona, Marta Pola, Terrence M. Gosliner and Juan Lucas Cervera
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2015 69:422
  26. The influence of rainfall and hydrological variables on the abundance and diversity of the copepod community was investigated on a monthly basis over an annual cycle in the Taperaçu mangrove estuary. In gener...

    Authors: André Magalhães, Luci Cajueiro Carneiro Pereira and Rauquírio Marinho da Costa
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2015 69:421
  27. The Mya arenaria generation in the White Sea was observed for almost the whole life cycle (around 25 years). Using the data on this generation dynamics, the cohort life table was built. The main purpose of the r...

    Authors: Alexandra V. Gerasimova, Nikolay V. Maximovich and Nadezhda A. Filippova
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2014 69:423
  28. There is still only a small number of studies dedicated to Southern Ocean benthic biomass, especially on species level. Here, we analyze polychaete biomass in two areas of the Antarctic fjord Ezcurra Inlet cha...

    Authors: Krzysztof Pabis and Robert Sobczyk
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2014 69:420
  29. Morphological descriptions of two Halomonhystera species (Nematoda, Monhysterida) are presented (Halomonhystera hermesi and Halomonhystera socialis). Halomonhystera hermesi sp. n. occurs in a dense monospecific ...

    Authors: Alexei V. Tchesunov, Daria A. Portnova and Jelle van Campenhout
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2014 69:416
  30. The populations of Buccinanops globulosus from three different sites of northern Patagonia were compared in the female reproductive cycle over a 2-year study period (September 2006–August 2008). These population...

    Authors: María Soledad Avaca, Pablo Martín, Silvina van der Molen and Maite Narvarte
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2014 69:418
  31. Tagelus plebeius (Lightfoot, 1786) is a stout razor clam that is economically exploited in several countries, including several local fisheries along the Brazilian coast. Despite its wide distrib...

    Authors: Camila Fernanda da Silva, Guilherme Nascimento Corte, Leonardo Querobim Yokoyama, Jolnnye Rodrigues Abrahão and Antônia Cecília Zacagnini Amaral
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2014 69:417
  32. Previous studies have suggested incongruence between current systematics and molecular phylogenies of Sarsielloidea, with a possible polyphyly of the family Philomedidae. Here, we provide molecular phylogenet...

    Authors: Ivana Karanovic, Lorena Orduña-Martínez and Pedro-Luis Ardisson
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2014 69:415
  33. Larval survival potentially affects recruitment strongly. Variability in larval growth rates, primarily caused by variable nutritional situations, is one of the factors that can influence larval survival rates...

    Authors: Ilhan Yandi and Ilhan Altinok
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2014 69:414
  34. An inventory of benthic and benthopelagic fishes is presented as a result of two exploratory surveys around Ampère Seamount, between Madeira and the Portuguese mainland, covering water depths from 60 to 4,400 ...

    Authors: Bernd Christiansen, Rui P. Vieira, Sabine Christiansen, Anneke Denda, Frederico Oliveira and Jorge M. S. Gonçalves
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2014 69:413
  35. Nematodes or roundworms represent one of the most diverse and dominant taxon in marine benthic habitats. Whereas a morphological identification of many species is challenging, the application of molecular mark...

    Authors: Philipp Vogt, Maria Miljutina and Michael J. Raupach
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2014 68:411
  36. Ruditapes philippinarum, a venerid clam, is a dominant species in the sandy and muddy areas in the coastal waters of the Marmara Sea. Intensive commercial harvesting of this species is conducted ...

    Authors: Serhat Çolakoğlu and Mustafa Palaz
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2014 68:410
  37. Species of sea hares have been recognized traditionally based on morphological traits, mainly the radula, external coloration, and reproductive anatomy. However, recent studies have shown substantial color var...

    Authors: Luiza de Oliveira Saad, Carlo Magenta Cunha, Karine Delevati Colpo and Ángel Valdés
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2014 68:408
  38. Tardigrades are microscopic metazoans that withstand environmental extremes by entering dormant states, such as cryptobiosis (latent life). In addition, they may also form cysts. Here, we present the first re...

    Authors: Lykke K. B. Clausen, Kasper N. Andersen, Thomas L. Hygum, Aslak Jørgensen and Nadja Møbjerg
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2014 68:409
  39. In the last 20–30 years, the temperature of the Mediterranean Sea has increased and global warming is allowing the establishment of tropical-affinity species into more temperate zones. Sessile communities are...

    Authors: Manuel María González-Duarte, Cesar Megina and Stefano Piraino
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2014 68:406
  40. Living rhodolith beds are widely distributed along the Eastern Pacific ocean. Despite their widespread distribution, little is known about the rhodolith-forming species from shallow water in the Mexican South ...

    Authors: Edith Concepción Peralta-García and Edgar Francisco Rosas-Alquicira
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2014 68:405
  41. A synthetic analysis of the distribution, abundance and some biological traits of the common pandora (Pagellus erythrinus) was performed. Data were gathered in 15 experimental bottom trawl surveys carried out off...

    Authors: B. Busalacchi, T. Bottari, D. Giordano, A. Profeta and P. Rinelli
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2014 68:404
  42. We describe a new genus and species of sea anemone from Chilean Patagonia. Anthoparactis fossii n. gen. et sp. adds another acontiate genus and species to the family Isanthidae Carlgren, 1938. Anthoparactis n. g...

    Authors: Verena Häussermann and Estefanía Rodríguez
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2014 68:399
  43. This study reviews the morphology of the first zoeal stage of the pantropical and subtropical marine shrimps of the family Processidae. We present the first descriptions of the zoea I of Ambidexter symmetricus an...

    Authors: Mariana Terossi and Fernando Luis Mantelatto
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2014 68:403
  44. Few studies have been conducted on the temporal dynamics of both amino acid (AA) and fatty acid (FA) profiles in marine bivalves. We investigated the seasonal variation of these compounds in the pod razor clam En...

    Authors: Miguel Baptista, Tiago Repolho, Ana Luísa Maulvault, Vanessa M. Lopes, Luis Narciso, António Marques, Narcisa Bandarra and Rui Rosa
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2014 68:402
  45. Crustose algal communities were studied in Diadema africanum urchin barrens around Tenerife (Canary Islands, NE Atlantic). A hierarchical nested sampling design was used to study patterns of community variabilit...

    Authors: Carlos Sangil, Marta Sansón, Tania Díaz-Villa, José Carlos Hernández, Sabrina Clemente and Julio Afonso-Carrillo
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2014 68:401
  46. Relative growth and the reproductive cycle of the date mussel Lithophaga lithophaga were studied from September 2002 to October 2003 in the Bizerte Bay (Northern Tunisia). Relationships between shell length and s...

    Authors: Ferdaous Jaafar Kefi, Samir Boubaker and Najoua Trigui El Menif
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2014 68:400
  47. Twenty-eight species of scleractinian corals were collected between 55 and 2,291 m depth during INDEMARES 2010–2012 expeditions to the Avilés Canyon System and the near continental shelf (Bay of Biscay). Most ...

    Authors: Álvaro Altuna and Pilar Ríos
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2014 68:398
  48. A total of 25 specimens of Eryoneicus larvae were collected near the Balearic Archipelago (Western Mediterranean Sea) in 2009 and 2010. Detailed morphological examination indicated that the smallest individual co...

    Authors: Asvin P. Torres, Ferran Palero, Antonina Dos Santos, Pere Abelló, Edurne Blanco, Alexandra Boné and Guillermo Guerao
    Citation: Helgoland Marine Research 2014 68:397