Marine Biology

The snails found living on rocky sea shores are among the most rewarding invertebrate animals to study. Species such as dog-whelks, topshells and w...

The billfish is fixed at the apex of the oceanic food chain. Composed of sailfish, marlin, spearfish, and swordfish, they roam the pelagic waters o...

Echinoderms play an important ecological role in marine communities, especially in relation to food chains, occupying diverse trophic levels such a...

The deep-sea ecosystems include waters and sediments at the lowest layer in the ocean, existing below the thermocline and above the seabed, at a de...

In areas where toxic algal blooms occur, the main affected organisms are shellfish, which, because of their high levels of filtration (clearance ra...

Biofouling is usually defined as an especially economically significant process that occurs on ships'''' hulls, where high levels of fouling can re...

The authors begin this compilation by analyzing catalase and peroxidase enzymes in different Black Sea teleosts related to their taxonomic, physiol...

This book focuses on global aspects of common carps biological features, ecology and diseases. Common carp have a high adaptive capacity in a wide ...

This book is composed of two sections, Ecological and Fundamental Researches and Approach to Antifouling. Both sections contain research trends on ...

In this compilation, the authors examine a plant dealing with mussel shell waste as input in its valorisation process, which is considered a priori...

Lobsters are marine decapod crustaceans belonging to a diverse array of taxa, many of which support major fisheries of great socioeconomic importan...

Advances in Marine Biology. Volume 3 begins by focusing on some novel compounds having antioxidant, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, anticancer an...

Jellyfish are, like the mythical Medusa, both beautiful and potentially dangerous. Found from pole to tropic, these mesmeric creatures form an impo...

Jim Lawrys poems memorialize the losses we all suffer as Earths crowding compresses our living spaces to interrupt the subtle biological webs holdi...

In 1993, Alaskan artist and paleo-shark enthusiast Ray Troll stumbled upon the weirdest fossil he had ever seen-a platter-sized spiral of tightly w...

As the demand for space availability in marine environments increases due to the upward trend and intensity of human activities, Marine Spatial Pla...

Fish bones in the caves of East Timor reveal that humans have systematically fished the seas for at least 42,000 years. But in recent centuries, ou...

During the last decades there has been an increasing evidence of drastic changes in marine ecosystems due to human-induced impacts, especially on b...

In the last 50 years marine conservation has grown from almost nothing to become a major topic of global activity involving many people and organis...