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Diversity, Volume 12, Issue 3

2020 March - 35 articles

Cover Story: Oysters form considerable bioconstructions worldwide. Oyster reefs play a crucial role by enhancing biodiversity, especially in coastal environments, and are considered under several protection and management measures. Information on oyster reefs at mesophotic depths is rather scant with respect to coastal oyster reefs, but is growing thanks to the application of new technologies such as remote-operated vehicles. Their ecological role and ecosystemic importance calls for implementing investigations on deep-water oyster bioconstructions to better our knowledge of their diversity and ecosytemic functioning, useful also for maintaining and preserving these relevant habitats. View this paper.
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Articles (35)

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,240 Views
19 Pages

24 March 2020

Nest survival is most limited by nest predation, which often is increased by anthropogenic causes including habitat fragmentation, mesopredator release and predator subsidies. In mallards and other upland-nesting duck species in the North American pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,481 Views
20 Pages

24 March 2020

Eurasian watermilfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum L.) hybridizes with the native northern watermilfoil (M. sibiricum Kom.), which raises new issues regarding management strategies to control infestations. To determine the distribution of hybrid (and coinc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,998 Views
18 Pages

23 March 2020

The process of rapid urbanization has affected the composition and diversity of urban vegetation species. The process of urbanization from 2000 was analyzed in the area of "one major city with three vice cities and six groups", according to the urban...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,026 Views
20 Pages

Middle Eocene Rhodoliths from Tropical and Mid-Latitude Regions

  • Julio Aguirre,
  • Juan C. Braga,
  • Victoriano Pujalte,
  • Xabier Orue-Etxebarria,
  • Edward Salazar-Ortiz,
  • Daniel Rincón-Martínez,
  • Manuel Abad and
  • Fernando Pérez-Valera

23 March 2020

During the greenhouse conditions prevailing in the early–middle Eocene, larger benthic foraminifers (LBF) spread out on carbonate platforms worldwide while rhodolith beds were scarcely represented. This reduction in rhodolith beds coincided wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,842 Views
14 Pages

Evidence for Plio-Pleistocene Duck Mussel Refugia in the Azov Sea River Basins

  • Alena A. Tomilova,
  • Artem A. Lyubas,
  • Alexander V. Kondakov,
  • Ilya V. Vikhrev,
  • Mikhail Y. Gofarov,
  • Yulia S. Kolosova,
  • Maxim V. Vinarski,
  • Dmitry M. Palatov and
  • Ivan N. Bolotov

23 March 2020

Freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionoida) play an important role in freshwater habitats as ecosystem engineers of the water environment. Duck mussel Anodonta anatina is widely distributed throughout Europe, Siberia, and Western and Central Asia, which...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,365 Views
16 Pages

21 March 2020

Empirical studies suggest that the structural heterogeneity of aquatic ecosystem microhabitat is determined by the diversity and abundance of macrophytes. However, excessive accumulation of free-floating macrophytes on the water surface can reduce th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,439 Views
19 Pages

21 March 2020

The Thessaloniki Bay is a eutrophic coastal area which has been characterized in recent years by frequent and intense phytoplankton blooms and red tides. The aim of the study was to investigate the underexplored diversity of marine unicellular eukary...

  • Interesting Images
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,112 Views
4 Pages

Extension of the Recorded Host Range of Caribbean Christmas Tree Worms (Spirobranchus spp.) with Two Scleractinians, a Zoantharian, and an Ascidian

  • Bert W. Hoeksema,
  • Jaaziel E. García-Hernández,
  • Godfried W.N.M. van Moorsel,
  • Gabriël Olthof and
  • Harry A. ten Hove

21 March 2020

Caribbean Christmas tree worms (Annelida: Polychaeta: Serpulidae: Spirobranchus) are considered host generalists in their associations with anthozoan (Scleractinia) and hydrozoan (Millepora) stony corals [...]

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,538 Views
22 Pages

New Records of Antarctic Tardigrada with Comments on Interpopulation Variability of the Paramacrobiotus fairbanksi Schill, Förster, Dandekar and Wolf, 2010

  • Łukasz Kaczmarek,
  • Monika Mioduchowska,
  • Uroš Kačarević,
  • Katarzyna Kubska,
  • Ivan Parnikoza,
  • Bartłomiej Gołdyn and
  • Milena Roszkowska

20 March 2020

Studies on Antarctic tardigrades started at the beginning of the twentieth century and have progressed very slowly and ca. 75 tardigrade species are known from this region. Paramacrobiotus fairbanksi was described from USA based on genetic markers an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,027 Views
13 Pages

20 March 2020

Predicting how biodiversity affects ecosystem functioning requires a multifaceted approach based on the partitioning of diversity into its taxonomic and functional facets and thus redundancy. Here, we investigated how species richness (S), functional...

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Diversity - ISSN 1424-2818