Mangrove, Crab and Shorebird Activity as Bioindicators to the Health Status of Mangrove Ecosystems along the Surinamese Coastline, South America

This study focused on the shorebird activity along the Surinamese coast in relation to the mangrove ecosystem health. The health of three estuarine mangrove areas was assessed using important bioindicators of the mangrove ecosystem: crabs, birds and mangroves. Mangrove vegetation was measured at Weg Naar Zee, Matapica canal delta and Coronie coast. Crab activity was measured by burrow and crab counts. Occurring shorebirds were also counted at these areas. The results show that mangrove regeneration and shorebird activity is significantly related to the health of the ecosystem. Weg Naar Zee was the most damaged and highest at risk. Matapica canal delta and the Coronie coast were the least damaged, with Coronie coast showing greatest health and biodiversity of the indicators.

Spatial Distribution of Marine Epibenthic Communities in the Hola Trough (Vesterålen, Northern Norway)

The Lofoten-Vesterålen marine shelf is one of the most geologically diverse coast and offshore margin areas in Norway. This leads to huge heterogeneity in marine environments, and often high biodiversity. However, little is known yet about the benthic communities in this region. Within the ARCTOS LoVe MarineEco project the epibenthic communities of the Hola trough (Vesterålen) are analysed to give a first description of their spatial distribution. In this trough both a complex hydrodynamic system and varied topographic submarine elements occur. Trawling samples were collected for two different approaches: one in a meso-scale and another in a small-scale. For the broad scale a transect consisting in three stations was developed, while for the fine scale a small area on a sand wave field, consisting in five stations called HolaBox, was sampled. All organisms were intended to be identified to species level and colonial fauna was discarded for the analysis. Different diversity indexes were assessed (Shannon index (H’) and Pielou’s eveness (J’)). Clustering and nMDS analyses identified four statistically significant groups in terms of abundance (ind./100m2). A total amount of 211 different taxa were found within all stations. The more outer part of the transect (close to the shelf edge) presented a huge abundance of organisms and was dominated by the hemi sessile tube-builder polychaetes Nothria conchylega and Eunice dubitata and the sea urchin Gacilechinus acutus, while the more inner parts presented less abundance of individuals. Probably some upwelling produced by the Norwegian Atlantic Current (NWAC) is influencing the shelf edge increasing the primary production and, therefore, enriching the seafloor in this region. The sand wave field presented two different groups with few amount of individuals. Small-scale variability could be produced by the high heterogeneity within the different types of sand waves, while the scarce abundance of animals can be produced by the permanent changing environment that movable sand waves produce. Here more active and mobile fauna was found such as brittle stars and hermit crabs (among others). Finally, a fourth group was found in the most inner station of the transect, laying on a ridge in the central part of the trough. This station, with coarse substrate, was mainly dominated again by brittle stars and sea urchins. We can conclude that this is a really heterogeneous trough in environments and therefore in communities (even in a local scale). More detailed studies that focus in the local environmental drivers have to be carried out to get an integrated understanding of the structure of benthic communities in this system.

Description des Crustacés de la famille des Paguriens recueillis pendant l'Expédition / par Alphonse Milne-Edwards et E. L. Bouvier.

v.14:no.3 (1893)

Les dromiacés et oxystomes / par Alphonse Milne Edwards et E. L. Bouvier.

v.27:no.1 (1902)

The Brachyura / by Mary J. Rathbun ; with nine plates.

v.35:no.2 (1907)

Les porcellanides et des brachyures / Alphonse Milne-Edwards et E. L. Bouvier.

v.47:no.4 (1923)

The Cambridge natural history,

Vols. 1, 2, 5-7, 9 reprinted 1922; v. 3, 1927; and vols. 4, 8, 10, 1923.

Held for orders : stories of railroad life /

The switchman's story: Shockley.--The wiper's story: How McGrath got an engine.--The roadmaster's story: The Spider Water.--The striker's story: McTerza.--The despatcher's story: The last order.--The nightman's story: Bullhead.--The master mechanic's story: Delaroo.--The operator's story: De Molay four.--The trainmaster's story: Of the old guard.--The yellow mail story: Jimmie the Wind.

Bypaths in Dixie; folk tales of the South,

First published in 1911; this edition adds an afterword.

Stories by American authors.

v. 6. The village convict, by C. H. White. The Denver express, by A. A. Hayes. The misfortunes of Bro' Thomas Wheatley, by Lina R. Fairfax. The heartbreak cameo, by L. W. Champney. Miss Eunice's glove, by A. Webster. Brother Sebastian's friendship, by H. Frederic.--v. 7. The bishop's vagabond, by Octave Thanet. Lost, by E. Bellamy. Kirby's coals of fire, by Louise Stockton. Passages from the journal of a social wreck, by Margaret Floyd. Stella Grayland, by J. T. McKay. The image of San Donato, by Virginia W. Johnson.--v. 8. The brigade commander, by J. W. De Forest. Split zephyr, by H. A. Beers. Zerviah Hope, by Elizabeth S. Phelps. The life-magnet, by A. A. Adee. Osgood's predicament, by Elizabeth D. B. Stoddard.--v. 9. Marse Chan, by T. N. Page. Mr. Bixby's Christmas visitor, by C. S. Gage. Eli, by C. H. White. Young Strong of "The Clarion," by Milicent W. Shinn. How old Wiggins wore ship, by Captain R. T. Coffin. "--mas has come," by L. Kip.--v. 10. Pancha, by T. A. Janvier. The ablest man in the world, by E. P. Mitchell. Young Moll's peevy, by C. A. Stephens. Manmat'ha, by C. De Kay. A daring fiction, by H. H. Boyesen. The story of two lives, by Julia Schayer.

Stories by American authors.

This collection also published under title: Library of American fiction.

Brown recluse and black widow spiders.

"09/07"--Colophon.

Karma and other stories & essays,

"Editor's note" signed: Albert Mordell.