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• Foam beach, Sydney
  ...f gelatinous layer. The colonies use this slime layer to temporarily store organic material formed by photosynthesis during the day. This provides the cells w
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• Optical measurements in coastal waters
  #Coloured dissolved organic matter (CDOM) #Organic suspended solids or [[detritus]] (OSS)
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• Pollution prevention, detection and mitigation in European coastal waters
  ====Persistent organic pollutants==== Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) include a wide range of substances: industrial chemicals
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• Continental shelf habitat
  ...lves. Most of these organisms are deposit-feeders, feeding on particles of organic matter in the sediment. Filter-feeders are not abundant because there is le ...ing from the water above. It consists of fecal pellets, dead organisms and organic debris. There are several ways to capture [[detritus]] such as tentacles,
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• European Context of Nutrient Dynamics
  ...ater degradation culminated due to the continuous increase of nutrient and organic mater inputs. The level of wastewater treatment, especially in the upstream
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• Mariculture
  Another part of the waste products consists of CO₂, dissolved organic carbon and various soluble nutrients (e.g. ammonia and phosphate) which are ...milate dissolved inorganic nutrients from the water, while bivalves filter organic suspended particles which can be left-over feed or phytoplankton from the e
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• The Tragedy of the Commons - The Tuna Example
  ...others such as water pollution in particular with heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants, nutrients from agriculture and oil, in marine and coastal areas
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• Effects of fisheries on marine biodiversity
  ...nclude significant decreases in organic matter content (up to 52%), slower organic carbon turnover ( approx. 37%), and reduced meiofauna abundance (80%), biod
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• Relative sea level
  ...action caused by groundwater extraction, oil/gas mining and/or drainage of organic soils.
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• ALGADEC - Detection of toxic algae with a semi-automated nucleic acid biosensor
  Microalgae are the major producers of [[Biomass|biomass]] and organic compounds in the aquatic environment. Among the marine microalgae there are
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• Deep sea habitat
  ...pth. This is related to oxygen consumption by microbial mineralization of organic matter sinking out of the photic zone (see [[Nutrient conversion in the mar
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• Salt marshes
  ...water where collapse of peat soil is caused by microbial mineralization of organic matter<ref>Hutchings, A.M., Antler. G., Wilkening, J.V., Basu, A., Bradbury Soils with a high percentage of fine soft sediments (clay, organic material) cannot bear much weight. Sea dikes built on such soils cannot the
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• Coral reefs
  ...exposed hard and steep substrate and strong bottom currents that transport organic matter from the continental shelf to the deep sea<ref>De Leo, F. C., Smith, ...]'' has been shown to incorporate everything from dissolved and particular organic carbon to algal biomass to small zooplankton.
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• Osmosis
  ...nt to avoid cell shrinkage or dilatation. Osmolytes are usually low-weight organic molecules such as sugars, amino acids or methylamines. ...he intracellular osmotic pressure usually occurs through the production of organic osmolytes.
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• Fjord
  ...surface water. Due to slow water renewal in the bottom layer together with organic matter mineralization, the bottom layer is generally deprived of oxygen.
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• Ocean circulation
  ...ed 'upwelling' and is very important for enrichment of surface waters with organic matter and nutrients. Upwelling zones are characterized by a very rich mari
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• Respiration
  {{Definition|title=Respiration|definition=A chemical process whereby organic matter is oxidized by organisms, releasing energy and <math>CO_2</math> <re
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• Deep sea bottom
  ...xide and oxygen, and produce sugar, sulfur, and water. Other bacteria make organic matter by reducing sulfide or by oxidizing methane. The bacteria are prey t
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• Tsunami
  ...ame=RV></ref>. Gas formation (methane) due to the anaerobic degradation of organic material can contribute to the loss of stability of the sediment layer on t
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• Thermohaline circulation of the oceans
  ...egions annually accumulate pollution, including [[Portal:Ecotox|Persistent Organic Pollutants]] (POPs), which have been discharged from industry and agricultu
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• Cohesive sediment
  ...articles (silt, fine sand, organic matter), can be glued together by large organic molecules (extracellular polymeric substances, EPS) into large mud flocs. T
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• Anoxic
  ...e commonly produced where there is a deficiency of oxygen due to very high organic productivity and a lack of oxygen replenishment to the water or sediment, a
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• Polyfluorinated compounds - a new class of global pollutants in the coastal environment
  ...tes” for the Stockholm convention list of the so-called POPs (persistent organic pollutants). POPs are chemical substances that persist in the environment, ...300 to 450 times higher than that of [[hexachlorobenzene]], two classical organic pollutants, which are known to be hazardous
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• Habitat destruction and fragmentation
  ...compared to simpler habitats. They produce large amounts of nutrients and organic matter that can be directly used by other organisms as food resources. The
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• Principles of conservation, rehabilitation and restoration of estuarine and coastal habitats
  ...functions, including mediating water flows, accumulating [[sediments]] and organic matter, processing [[nutrients]], fertilising adjacent coastal waters and p
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• Arctic ocean
  ...condary Production in the Arctic Seas. In: Stein, R., MacDonald, R.W., The organic carbon cycle in the Arctic Ocean. Springer, pp 57-81</ref>. The productivit ...organic carbon cycle at the seafloor. in: Stein, R., MacDonald, R.W., The organic carbon cycle in the Arctic Ocean. Springer, pp 139-167.</ref>. The fauna of
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• Baltic Sea
  ...ts seasonality and spatial variability. Spring bloom – main pulse of new organic matter in higher latitudes starts in February March in Westernmost while in ...s”). High and rapid biomass production results in high flux not consumed organic carbon fall passing by lid of halocline and in decomposition processes caus
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• Coastal cities and sea level rise
  ...n have a soft soil largely consisting of thick Holocene layers of clay and organic material. Because of the high sensitivity to subsidence, special precaution ...mproved water quality as the soil can reduce acidity, remove inorganic and organic compounds through adsorption while chemical as well as biological processes
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• Algal bloom dynamics
  ...rophs': they are phototrophic but can also ingest particulate or dissolved organic matter (Flynn et al., 2013<ref>Flynn, K.J., Stoecker, D.K., Mitra, A., Rave ...ms, especially blooms of mixotrophic algae that feed both on nutrients and organic material (Berdalet et al., 2014<ref name=Ber>Berdalet, E.,McManus, M.A., Ro
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• Marine Plankton
  ...alled chloroplasts. These are present in all species of [[phytoplankton]]. Organic matter formed by these organisms forms the basis of almost all food chains. ...e picophytoplankton size class. '''Heterotrophic''' bacteria either absorb organic matter directly from their surroundings, or actively capture and ingest bac
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• Mediterranean seagrass ecosystem
  ...th. They are vital within their ecosystem for the production of oxygen and organic material and they support numerous animal species that utilise them as a si ...of ''P. oceanica'' allows other ecosystems to be enriched by the swathe of organic material that is carried by the currents and waves. The biomass of ''P. oce
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• Meiofauna of Sandy Beaches
  * they facilitate biomineralization of organic matter and enhance nutrient regeneration; [[Image:role.jpg|thumb|left|350px|Figure 6: Decomposition of organic contamination on sandy shore]]
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• Ecosystem function
  ...the ecological processes that control the fluxes of energy, nutrients and organic matter through an environment”.
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• Posidonia oceanica (Linnaeus) Delile
  ...s (Posidonia oceanica) beds in a Mediterranean bay: seagrass decline after organic matter cessation. Oceanol. Acta, 22(1): 109-117.</ref>,<ref>Ruiz, J.M., Per ...e centuries. Measures like remediation of seagrass sediments enriched with organic matter, or transplanting of P. oceanica, are at an experimental stage.
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• TBT and Imposex
  ...Marine Paints: the particular case of antifouling paints”. Progress in Organic Coatings, 59: 2-20. </ref>. In the case of vessels, the degree of fouling o ...: 10-14. </ref>. More recent methods included the use of paints containing organic compounds of lead, arsenic, mercury and halogens (''e.g.'' DDT) and copper
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• A review of biodiversity-ecosystem function research
  ...son, T.H. and Rosenberg, R. (1978). Macrobenthic succession in relation to organic enrichment and pollution of the marine environment. ''Oceanography and Mari
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• Marine mammals' health as an indicator of ecosystem health - tools for monitoring
  ...e phase proteins (APP). Protein structures, and the influence of metal and organic pollutants on these can be analysed and allow, therefore, conclusions about
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• Suspended particulate matter distribution in the North Sea
  ...water, some of mineralic composition, such as clay minerals, and others of organic origin. They are summarised under the term suspended particulate matter (SP ...ortant food for many benthic organisms. Furthermore, a number of different organic and inorganic trace substances, which are then transported by suspended mat
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• Marine geo-information system for the North Sea seafloor
  ...er, M., Sauter, E. J., Schäfer, A. & Ritzau, W. (2000). Spatial budget of organic carbon flux to the seafloor of the northern North Atlantic (60°N - 80°N). ...iments. Under anoxic conditions CH4 is formed by the microbial turnover of organic matter. At sites where the methane concentration exceeds saturation, format
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• Chemical and physical properties of functional metabolites
  ...of these substances can be extracted from animals, plants, and microbes by organic solvents (such as methanol or dichloromethane). The compounds are separated
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• Functional metabolites in benthic invertebrates
  ...o acids, sugars, and nucleotides as food cues. The production of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in certain microenvironments can locally elevate concentration
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• Organohalogenated contaminants in harbour porpoises
  The study evaluated the occurrence of important organic contaminants in the harbour porpoise: one of the top predators in of the No
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• Heavy metals
  ...y (as [[methylmercury]]) and arsenicum because they have high affinity for organic tissues. <ref name = eli>Elliot, M.; Hemingway, K. (2002). Fishes in estuar
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• Mercury
  ...rcury doesn't have [[biomagnification|biomagnifying]] characteristics, the organic compound, [[methylmercury]], does.
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• Pollution and benthic fish
  ...volatile organic compounds in marine biota, in: Roose, P. (2005). Volatile organic compounds and related microcontaminants in the Scheldt estuary and the sout
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• VOC
  {{Definition|title= volatile organic compounds (VOC) ...s. From a chemistry viewpoint “Volatile Organic Compound” can mean any organic compound (all chemical compounds containing carbon with exceptions) that is
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• PCBs and organochlorine pesticides in Antarctic algae
  ...or this is that PCBs are insoluble and [[adsorption|adsorb]] to particles (organic matter). Due to the lower productivity in the Antarctic, less particles are
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• Levels of PCBs and organochlorine pesticides in various benthic species in the Belgian North sea and the Western Scheldt estuary
  ...because as [[pollution and scavengers|scavengers]], they eat much decaying organic material, which can be heavily polluted.
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• TBT
  TBT is an [[organotin compounds|organotin compound]], meaning it's an organic compound with an associated tin molecule. Of all organotins TBT is the one ...publications%5CP00103_BD%20on%20organotin.pdf OSPAR background document on organic tin compounds]
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• Case studies marine pollution
  *[[Volatile organic compounds in North Sea fish]]
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