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Selection of carbohydrate-active probiotics from the gut of carnivorous fish fed plant-based diets, Cláudia R. Serra, Eduarda M. Almeida, Inês Guerreiro, Rafaela Santos, Daniel L. Merrifield, Fernando Tavares, Aires Oliva-Teles, and Paula Enes

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Automated identification of benthic epifauna with computer vision, Nils Piechaud, Christopher Hunt, Phil F. Culverhouse, Nicola L. Foster, and Kerry L. Howell

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Assessing the impact of introduced infrastructure at sea with cameras: A case study for spatial scale, time and statistical power, Anthony W.J. Bicknell, Emma V. Sheehan, Brendan J. Godley, Philip D. Doherty, and Matthew J. Witt

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Cryptic diversity and ranavirus infection of a critically endangered Neotropical frog before and after population collapse, R. Puschendorf, M. Wallace, M. M. Chavarría, A. J. Crawford, F. Wynne, M. Knight, D. H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs, C. V. Palmer, and S. J. Price

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Horizon scanning for invasive alien species with the potential to threaten biodiversity and human health on a Mediterranean island, J Peyton, AF Martinou, and et al

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The rise in ocean plastics evidenced from a 60-year time series, Clare Ostle, Richard C. Thompson, Derek Broughton, Lance Gregory, Marianne Wootton, and David G. Johns

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Abundance drives broad patterns of generalisation in plant–hummingbird pollination networks, BI Simmons, J Vizentin‐Bugoni, PK Maruyama, PA Cotton, OH Marín‐Gómez, C Lara, L Rosero‐Lasprilla, MA Maglianesi, R Ortiz‐Pulido, MA Rocca, LC Rodrigues, B Tinoco, MF Vasconcelos, M Sazima, AMM González, J Sonne, C Rahbek, LV Dicks, B Dalsgaard, and WJ Sutherland

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Silicon isotopic systematics of deep-sea sponge grounds in the North Atlantic, Katharine R. Hendry, Lucie Cassarino, Stephanie L. Bates, Timothy Culwick, Molly Frost, Claire Goodwin, and Kerry L. Howell

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Cryptic diversity in Lithobates warszewitschii (Amphibia, Anura, Ranidae), Robert Puschendorf, James Cryer, Felicity Wynne, and Stephen J. Price

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Morphological divergence and reduced ectoparasite prevalence in an introduced population of a Caribbean anole, V. Bodden and R. Puschendorf

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Integrating field and laboratory approaches for ripple development in mixed sand–clay–EPS, Jaco H. Baas, Megan L. Baker, Jonathan Malarkey, Sarah J. Bass, Andrew J. Manning, Julie A. Hope, Jeffrey Peakall, Ian D. Lichtman, Leiping Ye, Alan G. Davies, Daniel R. Parsons, David M. Paterson, and Peter D. Thorne

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Localised anthropogenic wake generates a predictable foraging hotspot for top predators, Lilian Lieber, Smith WAM Nimmo, James J. Waggitt, and Louise Kregting

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On the importance of citizen-science: the first record of Goniobranchus obsoletus (Rüppell & Leuckart, 1830) from Cyprus (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Nudibranchia), P Kleitou, I Giovos, W Wolf, and F Crocetta

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Toxic Algae Silence Physiological Responses to Multiple Climate Drivers in a Tropical Marine Food Chain, LM Turner, Jonathan N. Havenhand, Christian Alsterberg, AD Turner, GS K, Ashwin Rai, M. N. Venugopal, Indrani Karunasagar, and Anna Godhe

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Conformity in the collective: differences in hunger affect individual and group behavior in a shoaling fish, Alexander D.M. Wilson, Alicia L.J. Burns, Emanuele Crosato, Joseph Lizier, Mikhail Prokopenko, Timothy M. Schaerf, and Ashley J.W. Ward

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An ecological partition of the Atlantic Ocean and its adjacent seas, G Beaugrand, M Edwards, and P Hélaouët

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Temporal stability of Orbicella annularis symbioses: A case study in the Bahamas, Emma V. Kennedy, Linda Tonk, Nicola L. Foster, Peter J. Mumby, and Jamie R. Stevens

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Risk balancing through selective use of social and physical information: a case study in the humbug damselfish, M. I.A. Kent, A. L. Burns, W. F. Figueira, G. P.F. Mazue, A. G. Porter, A. D.M. Wilson, and A. J.W. Ward

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Simulated seawater flooding reduces oilseed rape growth, yield, and progeny performance, Mick E. Hanley, Francesca C. Hartley, Louise Hayes, and Miguel Franco

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Synchrony is more than its top-down and climatic parts: interacting Moran effects on phytoplankton in British seas, LW Sheppard, EJ Defriez, PC Reid, and DC Reuman

Evolution of the eyes of vipers with and without infrared-sensing pit organs, David J. Gower, Filipa L. Sampaio, Leo Peichl, Hans Joachim Wagner, Ellis R. Loew, William McLamb, Ronald H. Douglas, Nikolai Orlov, Michael S. Grace, Nathan S. Hart, David M. Hunt, Julian C. Partridge, and Bruno F. Simões

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Urban blue: A global analysis of the factors shaping people's perceptions of the marine environment and ecological engineering in harbours., EMA Strain, KA Alexander, S Kienker, and et al

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The application of the sustainable livelihood approach to small scale-fisheries: The case of mud crab Scylla serrata in South west India, Elina Apine, Lucy M. Turner, Lynda D. Rodwell, and Ramachandra Bhatta

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From Science to Evidence – How Biodiversity Indicators Can Be Used for Effective Marine Conservation Policy and Management, Abigail McQuatters-Gollop, Jacob Bedford, and Holly J. Niner

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The distribution of deep-sea sponge aggregations (Porifera) in relation to oceanographic processes in the Faroe-Shetland Channel., Kerry L. Howell, Joshua J. Davison, Haren H van, Phil Hosegood, and Nils Piechaud

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Deep sea sediments of the Arctic Central Basin: A potential sink for microplastics, La Daana K. Kanhai, Carina Johansson, J. P.G.L. Frias, Katarina Gardfeldt, Richard C. Thompson, and Ian O'Connor

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Storm event to seasonal evolution of nearshore bathymetry derived from shore-based video imagery, Erwin W.J. Bergsma, Daniel C. Conley, Mark A. Davidson, Tim J. O'Hare, and Rafael Almar

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Connecting organic to mineral: How the physiological state of an ecosystem-engineer is linked to its habitat structure, A Curd, F Pernet, C Corporeau, L Delisle, and et al

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Genetic analysis of a recently established Undaria pinnatifida (Laminariales: Alariaceae) population in the northern Wadden Sea reveals close proximity between drifting thalli and the attached population, Tifeng Shan, Shaojun Pang, Xuemei Wang, Jing Li, Li Su, Jessica Schiller, Dagmar Lackschewitz, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, and Kai Bischof

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Prediction of unprecedented biological shifts in the global ocean, G Beaugrand, A Conversi, A Atkinson, J Cloern, and et al

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The Lyme Bay experimental potting study, A Rees

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Use of Species Distribution Modeling in the Deep Sea, E Kenchington, O Callery, F Davidson, A Grehan, T Morato, J Appiott, A Davis, P Dunstan, Preez C Du, J Finney, JM González-Irusta, K Howell, A Knudby, M Lacharité, J Lee, FJ Murillo, L Beazley, JM Roberts, M Roberts, C Rooper, A Rowden, E Rubidge, R Stanley, D Stirling, KR Tanaka, J Vanhatalo, B Weigel, S Woolley, and C Yesson

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Phylogenomics of the superfamily Dytiscoidea (Coleoptera: Adephaga) with an evaluation of phylogenetic conflict and systematic error., Alexandros Vasilikopoulos, Michael Balke, Rolf G. Beutel, Alexander Donath, Lars Podsiadlowski, James M. Pflug, Robert M. Waterhouse, Karen Meusemann, Ralph S. Peters, Hermes E. Escalona, Christoph Mayer, Shanlin Liu, Lars Hendrich, Yves Alarie, David T. Bilton, Fenglong Jia, Xin Zhou, David R. Maddison, Oliver Niehuis, and Bernhard Misof

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Coastal embayment rotation: Response to extreme events and climate control, using full embayment surveys, Mark Wiggins, Tim Scott, Gerd Masselink, Paul Russell, and Robert Jak McCarroll

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Differing effects of age and starvation on reproductive performance in Drosophila melanogaster, ER Churchill, C Dytham, and MDF Thom

Two new Mesoceration Janssens, 1967 from the Piketberg, South Africa (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae), David T. Bilton and Musa C. Mlambo

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Within‐generation consequences of post‐settlement mortality for trait composition in wild populations: An experimental test, Benjamin J. Ciotti and Serge Planes

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Plankton lifeforms as a biodiversity indicator for regional-scale assessment of pelagic habitats for policy, Abigail McQuatters-Gollop and Jacob Bedford

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Physical and Numerical Modeling of Infragravity Wave Generation and Transformation on Coral Reef Platforms, Gerd Masselink, Megan Tuck, Robert McCall, Dongeren A van, Murray Ford, and Paul Kench

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Strengthened scientific support for the Endangerment Finding for atmospheric greenhouse gases, PB Duffy, CB Field, NS Diffenbaugh, SC Doney, and et al

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Tackling the lionfish invasion in the Mediterranean. the EU-LIFE RELIONMED Project: progress and results, P Kleitou, J Hall-Spencer, S Rees, S Sfenthourakis, A Demetriou, N Chartosia, C Jimenez, L Hadjioannou, A Petrou, Y Christodoulides, A Georgiou, V Andreou, C Antoniou, I Savva, and D Kletou

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The effect of feeding a novel multistrain yeast fraction on European seabass (Dicentrachus labrax) intestinal health and growth performance, Mark D. Rawling, Nicola Pontefract, Ana Rodiles, Ilektra Anagnostara, Eric Leclercq, Marion Schiavone, Mathieu Castex, and Daniel L. Merrifield

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Correction: Popular interest in vertebrates does not reflect extinction risk and is associated with bias in conservation investment, Thomas Davies, Andrew Cowley, Jon Bennie, Catherine Leyshon, Richard Inger, Hazel Carter, Beth Robinson, James P. Duffy, Stefano Casalegno, Gwladys Lambert, and Kevin Gaston

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Are We Speaking the Same Language? Recommendations for a Definition and Categorization Framework for Plastic Debris, Nanna B. Hartmann, Thorsten Hüffer, Richard C. Thompson, Martin Hassellöv, Anja Verschoor, Anders E. Daugaard, Sinja Rist, Therese Karlsson, Nicole Brennholt, Matthew Cole, Maria P. Herrling, Maren C. Hess, Natalia P. Ivleva, Amy L. Lusher, and Martin Wagner

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Size-selective harvesting and individual personality in a social fish, V Sbragaglia, J Alós, K Fromm, C Monk, C Díaz-Gil, S Uusi-Heikkilä, A Honsey, A Wilson, and R Arlinghaus

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Copper excess detoxification is mediated by a coordinated and complementary induction of glutathione, phytochelatins and metallothioneins in the green seaweed Ulva compressa, MT Brown

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Determination of the bioaccessible fraction of cupric oxide nanoparticles in soils using an in vitro human digestibility simulation, R. D. Handy, J. Vassallo, K. Tatsi, and R. Boden

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Polychaete mucopolysaccharide alters sediment microbial diversity and stimulates ammonia-oxidising functional groups, Michael Cunliffe, Harriet Dale, Joe D. Taylor, Martin Solan, and Phyllis Lam

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Butterflies embrace maladaptation and raise fitness in colonizing novel host, C Parmesan and M Singer

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Internal lee waves and baroclinic bores over a tropical seamount shark ‘hot-spot’, P. J. Hosegood, Smith WAM Nimmo, R. Proud, K. Adams, and A. S. Brierley

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Effects of the maternal and current social environment on female body mass and reproductive traits in Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica), Esther M.A. Langen, Nikolaus von Engelhardt, and Vivian C. Goerlich-Jansson

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Efficient coralline algal psbA mini barcoding and High Resolution Melt (HRM) analysis using a simple custom DNA preparation, Jason M. Hall-Spencer

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Takeoff temperatures in Melitaea cinxia butterflies from latitudinal and elevational range limits: a potential adaptation to solar irradiance, C Parmesan, M Singer, and N advani

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Assessing relative sensitivity of marine and freshwater bivalves following exposure to copper: Application of classical and novel genotoxicological biomarkers, Awadhesh N. Jha and Emily L. Vernon

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Beach recovery from extreme storm activity during the 2013–14 winter along the Atlantic coast of Europe, Guillaume Dodet, Bruno Castelle, Gerd Masselink, Timothy Scott, Mark Davidson, France Floc'h, Derek Jackson, and Serge Suanez

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INSIdE NANO: a systems biology framework to contextualize the mechanism-of-action of engineered nanomaterials, A Serra, I Letunic, V Fortino, RD Handy, B Fadeel, R Tagliaferri, and D Greco

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Changing environments and genetic variation: inbreeding does not compromise short-term physiological responses, J Buckley, R Daly, C Cobbold, K Burgess, and BK Mable

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Water beetles as models in ecology and evolution, DT Bilton, I Ribera, and AEZ Short

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Divergence in Glucosinolate Profiles between High- and Low-Elevation Populations of Arabidopsis halleri Correspond to Variation in Field Herbivory and Herbivore Behavioral Preferences, James Buckley, Foteini G. Pashalidou, Martin C. Fischer, Alex Widmer, Mark C. Mescher, and Moraes CM De

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Toxicity testing of cosmetic ingredients using gametophyte beads of the brown alga Undaria pinnatifida (Laminariales, Phaeophyta), MT Brown

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A catchment-scale perspective of plastic pollution, Fredric M. Windsor, Isabelle Durance, Alice A. Horton, Richard C. Thompson, Charles R. Tyler, and Steve J. Ormerod

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A century of change in North Sea plankton communities explored through integrating historical datasets, Jacob Bedford, Abigail McQuatters-Gollop, and David Johns

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Anthropogenic noise pollution reverses grouping behaviour in hermit crabs, Svenja Tidau and Mark Briffa

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Applying the natural capital approach to decision making for the marine environment, Tara Hooper, Tobias Börger, Olivia Langmead, Oceane Marcone, Siân E. Rees, Olivia Rendon, Nicola Beaumont, Martin J. Attrill, and Melanie Austen

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As Blind as a Bat? Opsin Phylogenetics Illuminates the Evolution of Color Vision in Bats, Emma C. Teeling, Bruno F. Simões, Nicole M. Foley, Graham M. Hughes, Huabin Zhao, Shuyi Zhang, and Stephen J. Rossiter

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Barnacle cover modifies foraging behaviour of the intertidal limpet Patella vulgata, Giacomo Santini, Richard C. Thompson, Stuart R. Jenkins, Guido Chelazzi, Richard G. Hartnoll, Suzanne M. Kay, and Stephen J. Hawkins

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Bioavailability and effects of microplastics on marine zooplankton: A review., Penelope K. Lindeque, Zara L.R. Botterell, Nicola Beaumont, Tarquin Dorrington, Michael Steinke, and Richard C. Thompson

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Can ecosystem functioning be maintained despite climate-driven shifts in species composition? Insights from novel marine forests, A Pessarrodona, A Foggo, and D Smale

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Changes in marine phytoplankton diversity: Assessment under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, I. Rombouts and A. McQuatters-Gollop

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Changes in the biochemical and nutrient composition of seafood due to ocean acidification and warming, A. J. Lemasson, J. M. Hall-Spencer, V. Kuri, and A. M. Knights

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Characterising the deterioration of different plastics in air and seawater, Nicolas F.A. Biber, Andy Foggo, and Richard C. Thompson

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Climate variation, reproductive frequency and acorn yield in English Oaks, Mick E. Hanley, Benjamin I. Cook, and Michael Fenner

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Coexistence and the niche in a nurse-cactus interaction: is cyclic dynamics justified?, Miguel Franco, Arnoldo Flores-Torres, and Carlos Montaña

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Dealing with the effects of ocean acidification on coral reefs in the Indian Ocean and Asia, Vicky W.Y. Lam, Suchana Chavanich, Salpie Djoundourian, Sam Dupont, Françoise Gaill, Guillaume Holzer, Kirsten Isensee, Stephen Katua, Frank Mars, Marc Metian, and Jason M. Hall-Spencer

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Deeper knowledge of shallow waters: reviewing the invertebrate fauna of southern African temporary wetlands, MS Bird, M Mlambo, RJ Wasserman, T Dalu, AJ Holland, JA Day, MH Villet, DT Bilton, HM Barber-James, and L Brendonck

Dietary probiotic Pediococcus acidilactici MA18/5M modulates the intestinal microbiota and stimulates intestinal immunity in rainbow trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss ), Daniel L. Merrifield, A Al‐Hisnawi, Ana Rodiles, Mark D. Rawling, Mathieu Castex, Paul Waines, Georgia Gioacchini, and Oliana Carnevali

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Differential immunity as a factor influencing mussel hybrid zone structure, Manuela Truebano, Deryk Tolman, Hannah L. Wood, and David O.F. Skibinski

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Diversity in CO2 concentrating mechanisms among chemolithoautotrophs from genera Hydrogenovibrio, Thiomicrorhabdus, and Thiomicrospira, ubiquitous in sulfidic habitats worldwide, Kathleen M. Scott, Juliana M. Leonard, Rich Boden, Dale Chaput, Clare Dennison, Edward Haller, Tara L. Harmer, Abigail Anderson, Tiffany Arnold, Samantha Budenstein, Rikki Brown, Juan Brand, Jacob Byers, Jeanette Calarco, Timothy Campbell, Erica Carter, Max Chase, Montana Cole, Deandra Dwyer, Jonathon Grasham, Christopher Hanni, Ashlee Hazle, C Johnson, R Johnson, Brandi Kirby, Katherine Lewis, Brianna Neumann, Tracy Nguyen, Charari J Nino, Ooreoluwa Morakinyo, Bengt Olsson, Shanetta Roundtree, Emily Skjerve, Ashley Ubaldini, and Robert Whittaker

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Do alternative reproductive strategies in the Wellington tree weta represent different behavioural types?, Alexander D.M. Wilson and Clint D. Kelly

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Effects of historic and projected climate change on the range and impacts of an emerging wildlife disease, Stephen J. Price, William T.M. Leung, Christopher J. Owen, Robert Puschendorf, Chris Sergeant, Andrew A. Cunningham, Francois Balloux, Trenton W.J. Garner, and Richard A. Nichols

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Effects of predator exposure on baseline and stress‐induced glucocorticoid hormone concentrations in pumpkinseed Lepomis gibbosus, Austin J. Gallagher, Michael J. Lawrence, SMR Jain‐Schlaepfer, Kathleen M. Gilmour, Alexander D.M. Wilson, and Steven J. Cooke

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Epibenthic community variation along an acidified tropical estuarine system, M. Belal Hossain, David J. Marshall, and Jason M. Hall-Spencer

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Erythrocytes nuclear abnormalities and leukocyte profile of the immune system of Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) breeding at Edmonson Point, Ross Sea, Antarctica, Silvia Olmastroni, Giulia Pompeo, Awadhesh N. Jha, Emiliano Mori, Maria Luisa Vannuccini, Niccolò Fattorini, Nicoletta Ademollo, and Ilaria Corsi

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Exposure to microplastics reduces attachment strength and alters the haemolymph proteome of blue mussels (Mytilus edulis), Dannielle S. Green, Thomas J. Colgan, Richard C. Thompson, and James C. Carolan

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Fear alone reduces energy processing by resident ‘keystone’ prey threatened by an invader; a non-consumptive effect of ‘killer shrimp’ invasion of freshwater ecosystems is revealed, Calum MacNeil and Mark Briffa

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From ocean sprawl to blue-green infrastructure – A UK perspective on an issue of global significance, Ally J. Evans, Louise B. Firth, Stephen J. Hawkins, Alice E. Hall, Joseph E. Ironside, Richard C. Thompson, and Pippa J. Moore

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Fungi in aquatic ecosystems, Hans Peter Grossart, den Wyngaert S Van, Maiko Kagami, Christian Wurzbacher, Michael Cunliffe, and Keilor Rojas-Jimenez

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GRAVEL BEACH CROSS- AND ALONGSHORE RESPONSE TO AN EXTREME EVENT: BEACH LENGTH AND HEADLAND PROXIMITY CONTROLS, RJ McCARROLL, G MASSELINK, M WIGGINS, TIM SCOTT, O BILLSON, and D CONLEY

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High p CO 2 promotes coral primary production, T Biscéré, M Zampighi, A Lorrain, S Jurriaans, A Foggo, F Houlbrèque, and R Rodolfo-Metalpa

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Impacts of the mycotoxin zearalenone on growth and photosynthetic responses in laboratory populations of freshwater macrophytes (Lemna minor) and microalgae (Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata)., EJ Eagles, R Benstead, S MacDonald, R Handy, and TH Hutchinson

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Inconspicuous impacts: Widespread marine invader causes subtle but significant changes in native macroalgal assemblages, G Epstein, A Foggo, and DA Smale

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Integrated ecosystem analysis in Irish waters; Providing the context for ecosystem-based sheries management, D Pedreschi, P Bouch, M Moriarty, and et al

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Invasive lionfish in the Mediterranean: Low public awareness yet high stakeholder concerns, Periklis Kleitou, Ioannis Savva, Demetris Kletou, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, Charalampos Antoniou, Yiannis Christodoulides, Niki Chartosia, Louis Hadjioannou, Andreas C. Dimitriou, Carlos Jimenez, Antonis Petrou, Spyros Sfenthourakis, and Sian Rees

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Marine Ecological Field MethodsSalvanes, A. G. V., Devine, J., Jensen, K. H., Hestetun, J. T., Sjotun, K., & Glenner, H, Wiley and Sons, 2018, 218 pp., A McQuatters‐Gollop

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Microplastics in the Environment, Richard C. Thompson and Imogen E. Napper

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Motion in the ocean – paradigm shift in movement ecology requires “sedentary” organisms to be redefined, Emma V. Sheehan

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OBSERVATIONS OF INFRAGRAVITY DOMINANCE IN THE SWASH ZONE OF A STEEP GRAVEL BEACH, O BILLSON, P RUSSELL, M DAVIDSON, M WIGGINS, JAK McCARROLL, T POATE, and N LEONARDI

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Open access solutions for biodiversity journals: Do not replace one problem with another, A. Townsend Peterson, Robert P. Anderson, Maria Beger, Janine Bolliger, Lluís Brotons, Christopher P. Burridge, Marlon E. Cobos, Angela P. Cuervo-Robayo, Minin E Di, Jeffrey Diez, Jane Elith, Clare B. Embling, Luis E. Escobar, Franz Essl, Kenneth J. Feeley, Lucy Hawkes, D Jimenez-Garcia, Laura Jimenez, David M. Green, Eva Knop, I Kuehn, José J. Lahoz-Monfort, Andres Lira-Noriega, Jorge M. Lobo, Rafael Loyola, Nally R Mac, Fernando Machado-Stredel, E Martinez-Meyer, Michael McCarthy, Cory Merow, Javier Nori, C Nunez-Penichet, Luis Osorio-Olvera, P Pysek, M Rejmanek, Anthony Ricciardi, Mark Robertson, Soto O Rojas, Daniel Romero-Alvarez, Núria Roura-Pascual, and Luca Santini

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Particle toxicology and health - where are we?, M Riediker, D Zink, W Kreyling, G Oberdörster, A Elder, U Graham, I Lynch, A Duschl, G Ichihara, S Ichihara, T Kobayashi, N Hisanaga, M Umezawa, T-J Cheng, R Handy, M Gulumian, S Tinkle, and F Cassee

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Patchiness in habitat distribution can enhance biological diversity of coastal engineering structures, Eva Cacabelos, Richard C. Thompson, Afonso C.L. Prestes, José Manuel N. Azevedo, Ana I. Neto, and Gustavo M. Martins