This essay “Pirate Assemblage” explores two related questions. The first is how we read and appreciate the literary form of pirate literature such as Alexander Exquemelin’s Buccaneers of America (1678) and Charles Johnson’s tw...
Employing assemblage theory, this article furthers the ecocriticism of Jewett’s works by exploring the complex ecological network of humans, the natural environment, and nonhumans created in The Country of the Pointed Firs. This article argues...
Ichthyoplankton communities provide important information on spawning dynamics and early life-history processes of fish populations. This study investigated the species composition and seasonal occurrence of fish eggs and larvae in Yeongil Bay, in th...
Rhizoplane microbes are considered proxies for evaluating the assemblage stability of the rhizosphere in wetland ecosystems due to their roles in plant growth and ecosystem health. However, our knowledge of how microbial assemblage stability is promo...
Coastal fishes are not only valuable elements of marine biodiversity, but they also play an important ecological role in the functioning of coastal ecosystems: food resource, transfer of nutrients, predators. Therefore, data on the compositions of fi...
Reservoirs are artificial ecosystems that modify the hydrological and environmental components nearby. The long-term monitoring of fish assemblages in reservoirs may provide key information to understand how these artificial ecosystems allow fish pop...
This research concerns a graphical method for analyzing species assemblages sampled in an ensemble of different habitats or sites. This approach provides a preference classification of species of an assemblage, combining two parameters in the same gr...
Coral reefs worldwide are under increasing levels of pressure due to global and local stressors. Long-term monitoring of coral reefs through repeated observations at fixed survey sites allows scientists to assess temporal patterns in coral-reef commu...
In this work, we identified the seasonal and spatial variations in fish assemblages and their relation to environmental variables in the Yangtze Estuary and adjacent waters. A total of 61 fish species in 32 families were identified over four seasons;...
Assemblage theory complicates an already extensive literature on religious urbanity, cultural heritage, the social construction of space and the power of place. Nevertheless, the concept can be applied to social and religious history in locations suc...
Understanding risk factors for the spread of infectious diseases over time and across the landscape is critical for managing disease risk. While habitat connectivity and characteristics of local and neighboring animal (i.e., host) assemblages are kno...
Decapod assemblages in Zostera marina beds from two bays adjacent to unvegetated habitats were investigated to assess their influence on decapod assemblages. Thirty-eight decapod species belonging to four taxa were collected using a small beam trawl...
Variabilities of biological communities in lower reaches of urban river systems are highly influenced by artificial constructions, alterations of flow regimes and episodic weather events. Impacts of estuary weirs on fish assemblages are particularly...
There has been considerable urban development in the Darwin region over the last twenty years; as for most fauna in Australia since colonisation, the potential effects to the bird assemblage were expected to be disastrous. To provide a broad overview...
Long-term ichthyoplankton time series provide an effective framework for understanding how marine communities respond to environmental variability across temporal scales. We analyzed larval fish assemblage dynamics in the central Mexican Pacific unde...
National biomonitoring programs increasingly survey multiple biological assemblages, but whether one biological element can serve as a surrogate for the magnitude or ranking of repeated-survey compositional displacement remains unresolved under stric...
Cladocera communities in surface sediments from 31 lakes in Hungary were analysed to assess the impacts of land use on the aquatic systems. We evaluated the alpha and beta diversity metrics, with land use classification types based on the Corine Land...
The architectural complexity of coral-reef habitat plays an important role in determining the assemblage structure of reef fish. We investigated associations between the reef habitats and fish assemblages in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) u...
Being a biologically diversed hotspot in the global marine ecosystem, the Beibu Gulf is inhabited by a high diversity of fish and serves as a vital fishing ground in China. Due to continuous overfishing, the fishery resource has drastically declined...
In American Hybrid (2009), Cole Swenson describes hybrid poetics as a reconciliation between the two dominant poetic traditions of the 20th century, which might be called lyric and experimental (xx–xxi). More recently, however, “hybrid&rd...
Canopy-forming macroalgae, mainly those belonging to the order Fucales, form the so-called brown algal forests, which are among the most productive assemblages in shallow coastal zones. Their vertical, branching canopies increase nearshore primary pr...
Paleoenvironmental insights gleaned from geological history are profoundly important for the discovery and exploitation of mineral resources. In China’s Bohai Bay Basin, the Kongdian Formation represents the principal oil-bearing stratum from t...
Fish provide ecosystem services and contribute to human well-being through fishing. In Chile, subsistence fishing provides food to local communities, whereas recreational fishing contributes to economic income via tourism. In the Lanalhue coastal lak...
Food is connected to sustainable development goals in numerous ways, as food security is key to achieving sustainable development. The world is currently not on track to achieve the set sustainable development goals (SDGs). In Nigeria, flooding is a...
In order to study the mechanical failure characteristics and energy evolution law of gas-bearing coal–rock composites under different gas pressures, a uniaxial mechanical loading experiment was carried out on an upper-rock lower coal binary coa...
Phytoplankton are dominant primary producers and key indicators in aquatic ecosystems. Understanding the controlling factors on the structure of phytoplankton assemblages is fundamental, but particularly challenging at the land–ocean interface....
Nearshore fisheries in Hawai‘i have been steadily decreasing for over a century. Marine protected areas (MPAs) have been utilized as a method to both conserve biodiversity and enhance fisheries. The composition of resource fishes within and directly...
The interaction between environmental variables influences patterns of diversity and the composition of communities along the elevational gradient. However, there is a lack of evidence regarding how these diversity patterns in Scolytinae change in re...
In the last two decades, the extensive development of intensive irrigated agriculture around the Mar Menor coastal lagoon (SE Iberian Peninsula) has disturbed the characteristics of this initially oligotrophic ecosystem. The organic pollution that fl...
In the ongoing academic discussion regarding what happens to our data after we die, how our data are utilised for commercial profit-making purposes, and what kinds of death-related practices our posthumous data figure in, the notion of digital afterl...
Stream ecosystems provide invaluable ecosystem services but are highly impacted ecosystems in need of water quality monitoring for habitat change impacts. Freshwater macroinvertebrate (FWI) assemblages have been shown to be good indicators of water q...
Giardia duodenalis (G. duodenalis) is an important zoonotic protozoan agent that causes foodborne and waterborne diarrhea in humans and other mammals. Molecular-based tests are critical in diagnosing giardiasis in humans and animals, identifying...
Insect assemblages associated with declining riparian black alder (Alnus glutinosa) stands were compared at the community level between two lowland river valleys in Poland that differ in anthropogenic transformation: the near-natural Łutownia Ri...
This study aims to characterize for the first time the insect assemblage associated with sown, introduced guayule (Parthenium argentatum A. Gray, Asteraceae) in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, and identify potential relationships with the crop. Insect sam...
The mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae (Coleoptera: Scolytinae), is an economically important bark beetle species with a wide geographic range spanning from the southwestern United States into northern Canada. This beetle causes extensive...
Paleoenvironmental knowledge holds significant scientific value for elucidating the evolutionary history of Earth’s crust and for guiding the exploration of oil and gas resources. This study presents a comprehensive analysis of sporopollen&ndas...
Introduction: Long-term ecological monitoring is essential to understand the responses of fish communities to global change in transitional ecosystems. Coastal lagoons are particularly vulnerable to eutrophication, which can trigger abrupt regime shi...
Hydrated lime is widely incorporated into cement-based mortars to improve workability and fresh-state properties; however, its influence on hydration products and mechanical performance remains insufficiently understood. This study investigates the e...
Synergistic diagenetic evolution of sandstones and shales significantly impacts the quality of associated tight oil and shale oil reservoirs. Using integrated petrographic (thin sections, fluorescence thin sections, scanning electron microscopy with...
The current research study presented assemblages theory and the theory of affordances to identify the elements that make up the processes of creativity, innovative, and creativity and innovation. Assemblages involve heterogeneous elements that are as...
This study evaluates the relative and combined effectiveness of seaweed rafts and light traps in attracting juvenile fish, focusing on diel variations in juvenile fish assemblage in the tropical coastal waters of Gaolong Bay, Wenchang City, Hainan Pr...
Coral reefs are under increasing pressure from a variety of stressors, highlighting the need for information about the status of coral reef communities including the distribution, abundance and composition of juvenile and adult coral assemblages. Thi...
Introduction: A diverse ichthyofauna is supported by the Lima River in northern Portugal. Despite its ecological significance, Ramsar-protected wetlands status and Natura 2000 site, the system remains among the least studied in the Iberian Peninsula....
The influence of microalgae on the formation of associated prokaryotic assemblages in halophilic microbial communities is currently underestimated. The aim of this study was to characterize shifts in prokaryotic assemblages of halophilic microalgae u...
Lakes and wetlands provide top-priority hotspots that play a key role in maintaining and protecting threatened and migratory waterfowl. Identifying seasonal and spatial variations in aquatic bird communities and their responses to environmental facto...
The offshore waters of the Yangtze Estuary are an important fish habitat, and the large gradient of environmental conditions leads to different fish assemblages. We studied the spatial and temporal variations in fish assemblages and their relationshi...
Species respond to environmental changes at different rates, resulting in no change, increased, or decreased resemblance among species assemblages. We explored the patterns of rate of change in bird diversity in five ecoregions of the United States a...
The relationships between shore fish assemblages from habitats neighboring coral reefs have received little attention in the Indo-Pacific. The present study is based on the extensive sampling (539,000 fish; 898 taxa) of three fish assemblages: reefs,...
Global fisheries are in decline, calling for urgent evidence-based action. One such action is the identification and protection of fishery-associated habitats such as seagrass meadows and kelp forests, both of which have suffered long-term loss and d...
Caves are characterized by unique abiotic conditions such as limited light, and they therefore support distinct faunal assemblages that often include endemic species. Due to light limitations, photoautotrophic organisms are absent from many subterran...
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