Publications by authors named "Victoria Fernandez-Gonzalez"
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- Understanding biodiversity is critical to predicting how ecosystems will respond to environmental changes.
- This study examined the variations in β-diversity of amphipods living in seagrass meadows across three different biogeographical regions, focusing on both species replacement and changes in species composition over time.
- Findings show that habitat stability significantly influences species turnover rates, with subtropical regions having more stable habitats showing higher turnover compared to less stable temperate regions, where loss of species played a larger role.
In this work, we extracted chitosan from marine amphipods associated with aquaculture facilities and tested its use in crop protection. The obtained chitosan was 2.5 ± 0.
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- Amphipods are important small crustaceans found in seagrass meadows, yet their distribution patterns have not been well studied.
- This research examined twelve seagrass meadows (Cymodocea nodosa) across different biogeographical areas in the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, focusing on how various environmental factors affect amphipod populations.
- The study revealed that amphipod abundance and species richness are primarily influenced by habitat structure elements, such as seagrass leaf area and epiphyte biomass, indicating that more complex habitats support greater amphipod diversity.
Marine fish farms could cause environmental disturbances on the sediment due to uneaten food and fish faeces that impact the marine benthos. Polychaete assemblages are considered good indicators of environmental perturbations. The present study aimed to establish groups of polychaetes as potential indicators of fish farm pollution.
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