Life at Interfaces and Under Extreme Conditions

Organic matter diagenesis at the oxic/anoxic interface in coastal marine sediments, with emphasis on the role of burrowing animals.- Variation in abundances of intertidal populations: consequences of extremities of environment.- The influence of Corophium volutator abundance on resuspension.- Preying at the edge of the sea: the nemertine Tetrastemma melanocephalum and its amphipod prey on high intertidal sandflats.- Meiobenthos of hypersaline tropical mangrove sediment in relation to spring tide inundation.- Spatial and temporal distribution of Myrophis punctatus (Ophichthidae) and associated fish fauna in a northern Brazilian intertidal mangrove forest.- Variability of foraging in highshore habitats: dealing with unpredictability.- Faecal pellet production by Arctic under-ice amphipods — transfer of organic matter through the ice/water interface.- High abundance of Myriochele fragilis Nilsen & Holthe, 1985 (Polychaeta: Oweniidae) in the deep sea of the Eastern Mediterranean.- The vertical distribution of Chthamalus montagui and Chthamalus stellatus (Crustacea, Cirripedia) in two areas of the NW Mediterranean Sea.- First survey of sessile communities on subtidal rocks in an area with hydrothermal vents: Milos Island, Aegean Sea.- Influence of temperature, oxygen and food availability on the migrational activity of bathyal benthic foraminifera: evidence by microcosm experiments.- Main characteristics of the boundary layer macrofauna in the English Channel.- The physiological response of Northern krill (Meganyctiphanes norvegica) to temperature gradients in the Kattegat.- Effects of salinity on larval and early juvenile growth of an extremely euryhaline crab species, Armases miersii (Decapoda: Grapsidae).- Does fluctuating salinity induce branching of Fucusvesiculosus?.- Fungal degradation of the thermoplastic polymer poly-?-hydroxybutyric acid (PHB) under simulated deep sea pressure.- Effect of continuous nutrient enrichment on microalgae colonizing hard substrates.- Relevance of crustacean carapace wettability for fouling.- Decline of the intertidal blue mussel (Mytilus edulis) stock at the coast of Lower Saxony (Wadden Sea) and influence of mussel fishery on the development of young mussel beds.