Journal of the Week: Marine and Freshwater Research

Published by CSIRO, Marine and Freshwater Research is an international journal which focuses on all aquatic environments and subject areas. This includes environments from groundwaters, wetlands and streams to estuaries, rocky shores, coral reefs and the open ocean; and subject areas such as aquatic ecosystem processes, such as nutrient cycling; biology; ecology; biogeochemistry; biogeography and phylogeography; hydrology; limnology; management applications; oceanography; and toxicology.

Some interesting articles published recently include:

James Prescott , Shijie Zhou and Andhika P. Prasetyo (2015) Soft bodies make estimation hard: correlations among body dimensions and weights of multiple species of sea cucumbers, Marine and Freshwater Research, Volume 66, Number 10, 857-865 Link to Abstract/Full Text

Jorge E. Ramos , Gretta T. Pecl , Jayson M. Semmens , Jan M. Strugnell , Rafael I. León and Natalie A. Moltschaniwskyj (2015) Reproductive capacity of a marine species (Octopus tetricus) within a recent range extension area, Marine and Freshwater Research, Volume 66, Number 11, 999-1008 Link to Abstract/Full Text

M. Bouvy , P. Got , Y. Bettarel , T. Bouvier , C. Carré , C. Roques , M. Rodier , J. C. Lope and R. Arfi (2015) Importance of predation and viral lysis for bacterial mortality in a tropical western Indian coral-reef ecosystem (Toliara, Madagascar), Marine and Freshwater Research, Volume 66, Number 11, 1009-1017 Link to Abstract/Full Text

Malcolm P. Francis , Clinton Duffy and Warrick Lyon (2015) Spatial and temporal habitat use by white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) at an aggregation site in southern New Zealand, Marine and Freshwater Research, Volume 66, Number 10, 900-918 Link to Abstract/Full Text

Tim Kasoar , Philline S. E. zu Ermgassen , Alvar Carranza , Boze Hancock and Mark Spalding (2015) New opportunities for conservation of a threatened biogenic habitat: a worldwide assessment of knowledge on bivalve-reef representation in marine and coastal Ramsar Sites, Marine and Freshwater Research, Volume 66, Number 11, 981-988 Link to Abstract/Full Text

The most recent issue of this journal is Volume 66, Issue 11, published in November 2015. AIMS staff interested in reading more or browsing the journal can click here. As the AIMS Library is currently subscribed to Marine and Freshwater Research, staff should be able to access the full text of all articles. 

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