The Australasian Barnacle Austrominius modestus possesses a great number of chemical receptors and is able to discriminate between chemical mixtures based on their single compounds. Prior studies showed that related barnacles ...

Countries in the Middle East have been experiencing severe water shortages for several decades. In Jordan this crisis has been aggravated by population increase, climate change and the influx of Syrian refugees. In the ...

Two different groups of unicellular organisms (diatoms, foraminifers) of the marine benthos in the intertidal of Oddewatt, Sylt were studied with respect to variation of their population density and species composition in ...

In order to test whether different habitats in the Wadden Sea are characterized by different polychaete communities, we identified all polychaete species from three different habitats in List, Sylt. We chose one habitat ...

In this paper, we test for the existence of a common component in agricultural land auctions in eastern Germany during the price boom 2007-2018 and discuss respective policy implications. Using a large, detailed dataset ...

Pagurus bernhardus is a hermit crab, which is prone to predators and injuries, due to its scarcely sclerotized abdomen. Its survival depends on the availability of the shells of gastropods, e.g. the common periwinkle ...