Nitrate was the most abundant form of nitrogen in the biosphere after atmospheric nitrogen and was the source of nitrogen most widely used by living organisms such as higher plants, algae, fungi and bacteria (Pinar et al., 1997). Excessive inputs of ...

Our knowledge of biogeographic patterns and processes in the deep sea has been limited by the lack of integrated datasets that cover its vast extent1. Here we analyse a new global dataset of genomic DNA sequences, spanning an entire taxonomic class o...

Although dinoflagellates constitute a large portion of the global planktonic biomass, relatively few studies have focused on free-living dinoflagellate species and their potential contribution to biogeochemical cycling across redox gradients. Using s...

Currently, no singular indicator for effectively assessing marineeutrophication is available due to the inherent complexity of marineecosystems; instead, multiple indicators are utilized (Primpas and Karydis, 2011; Vollenweider et al., 1998; Uddin e...

Given the ongoing human exploration of underwater environments, such as underwater archaeology and coral reef expeditions, numerous researchers are engaged in the development of micro– underwater robots suited for confined aquatic settings . One crit...

Geyer's projections indicate that approximately 12,000 metric tons of plastic waste will enter rivers, oceans, and other natural environments by 2025 (Geyer et al., 2017). The widespread use of plastics across various industrial and medical sectors i...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), a significant class of persistent organic pollutants, are particularly concerning due to their carcinogenic, mutagenic, and degradation-resistant qualities (Agency, 1979; Simonich and Hites, 1994; Sverdrup et ...

More than 60% of the world’spopulation of 6.7 billion is in Asia whose reliance on animal protein comes from fishandother aquatic foods obtained from both capture and captive fisheries (Liao, 2002). Aquaculture contributed 91% of the world’s total prod...

Human society is dependent on nature1,2, but whether our ecological foundationsare at risk remains unknown in the absence of systematic monitoring of species’populations3. Knowledge of species fuctuations is particularly inadequate in themarine realm...

The vertical distributions of total organic carbon (TOC), total nitro- gen (TN),TOC/TN and δ13C in sediment core XCW of Xincun Lagoon are demonstrated in Fig. 4 and Table S2. The trends in TOC and TN in sediment core XCW exhibit similar patterns, and...