Extracellular enzymatic activities (EEAs) are the rate-limiting step in the degradation of organic matter. Extracellular enzymes can be found associated to cells or dissolved in the surrounding water. The proportion of ...
Settlement ponds are used to remove particulate and dissolved nutrients in Australian land-based aquaculture wastewater. At best, marine and brackish water settlement ponds reduce total suspended solids by 60%, but their ...
Fouha Bay is a 400-m-long funnel-shaped, 10-m-deep, coral-fringed embayment on the southwest coast of Guam. It drains a small catchment area (5 km(2)) of steeply sloping, highly erodible lateritic soils. River floods are ...
The water circulation in the Gulf of Carpentaria was modeled numerically, and the predictions of tides and tidal currents compare very satisfactorily with observations at 9 mooring sites from a five month long field study ...
The Gulf of Papua has the shape of a half-moon of radius of about 200 km and mean depth <50 m. The freshwater inflow is large, about 15,000 m(3) s(-1) with little seasonal variation. The entire Gulf is stratified in salinity ...
In situ growth of two abundant diatom-bearing benthic foraminiferal species (Amphistegina radiata, Heterostegina depressa) was investigated to elucidate whether differences in abundance between inshore and offshore reefs ...
Coral reefs are highly susceptible to climate change, with elevated sea surface temperatures (SST) posing one of the main threats to coral survival. Successful recruitment of new colonies is important for the recovery of ...