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Open Journal of Marine Science (OJMS) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in marine science. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of marine…
Kunio Ueda
There are many papers on red tide occurrences and eutrophication. Here, we use these data to examine the relationship between dam construction and red tide occurrence in Kesennuma Bay, Dokai Bay and the small bays of the Seto Inland Sea, Japan. Here, for the…
Jin-Woo Choi, Jin-Young Seo, Soonmo An
This study was conducted to get some basic information on the community structure of macrozoobenthos and its tem poral change at 3 sites on the Gapo artificial tidal flat within Masan Bay from March 2002 to April 2004 when 8 years passed after the constructio…
Tomomi Tanaka, Futoshi Aranishi
Arcidae species are commercially important bivalves in Japan and are commonly referred to as bloody ark due to their red blood. They have thick shells with distinct radiating ribs, and the numbers of these ribs are important morphological features for species…
Paul V. Flanagan, Brian P. Kelleher, Shane S. O’Reilly, Michal T. Szpak, Xavier Monteys, Paul P. Kelly, Anna N. Kulakova, Leonid A. Kulakov, Christopher C. R. Allen
A marine sediment core obtained from a methane seepage site off the northern coast of Irelandwas analysed, at 3 depths, for catabolic genes associated with the aerobic and anaerobic degradation of aromatic compounds. Catabolic gene copy numbers varied through…
Yoshimitsu Nakamura, Masaaki Konishi, Kazue Ohishi, Chiho Kusaka, Akihiro Tame, Yuji Hatada, Katsunori Fujikura, Masatoshi Nakazawa, Masahiro Fujishima, Takao Yoshida, Tadashi Maruyama
The deep-sea clam Calyptogena okutanii possesses a large gill containing vertically transmitted symbiotic sulfur-oxi dizing bacteria. It produces large amounts of highly viscoelastic mucus from the gill, which is thought to be a physical and chemical barrier.…
Cecília do Valle Pinto Pereira, Leandro Amaro Pessoa, Marcos Aurélio Vasconcelos de Freitas, Carlos Alejandro Echeverría
The regime of disturbance with natural or anthropogenic origin can lead to the destabilization or even to a mass mortal ity of benthic communities. Due to the heterogeneity of the disturbance there is a formation of patches in different stages of ecological s…
A. Nor Antonina, N. A. M. Shazili, B. Y. Kamaruzzaman, M. C. Ong, Y. Rosnan, F. N. Sharifah
A study on the rare earth elements (REEs) of Redang Island marine sediments was conducted in August 2011 during the premonsoon season. Bottom sediments were collected from 27 sampling stations on board UMT Discovery II vessel using a Smith McIntyre grab and a…
Tom B. Letessier, So Kawaguchi, Rob King, Jessica J. Meeuwig, Robert Harcourt, Martin J. Cox
In situ characterization of krill morphometry, behaviour and orientation is not yet routinely feasible, yet is critical to understanding swarm characteristics. A first step is to measure individual and aggregation behaviour. We report on successful use of a r…
Huanzhi Xu, Ading Lu, Hao Yu, Jingya Sun, Ming Shen
The pollution level of diuron in seawater and sediments in the west coastal sea area of Zhoushan Island from 2011 to 2013 was investigated. Results revealed that the concentration of diuron in seawater varies from less than (3.0 to 52.1) ng · L -1 , with an a…
Meike Scheidat, Russell Leaper, Martine Van Den Heuvel-Greve, Arliss Winship
Harbour porpoises in the North Sea are protected under national and EU legislation, and under the regional agreement ASCOBANS, within the UN Convention on Migratory Species. As yet, no methods exist to quantify the cumulative impacts of direct anthropogenic m…
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