Coastal tropical ecosystems provide livelihood for millions of people but are at the same time exposed to an increasing intensity of diverse anthropogenic stressors, including pollution. Nevertheless, the combined effects of pollutants on marine ecosystems

Studies on the Copepod community structure and function under oceanographic influences and anthropic impacts was carried out in the narrowest continental shelf of Brazil. A total of 65 taxa were identified, of which 39 were Calanoida. The most abundant

The evolutionary success of any species living in a variable environment depends on its capacity to enhance the probability of finding food and mates, and escaping predators. In the case of copepods of the genus Centropages, as in all planktonic copepods,

The mature oocytes of the marine calanoid copepod, Centropages velificatus, contain two morpho- logically distinct populations of cortical vesicles that un- dergo sequential exocytoses at the time of spawning. The contents of the primary cortical vesicles

Grazing on natural particulate assemblages by the copepods Acartia tonsa Dana, Centropages velificatus De Oliveira and Eucalanus pileatus Giesbrecht was examined in shipboard experiments in the Mississippi River plume (northern Gulf of Mexico continental

Grazing on natural particulate assemblages by the copepods Acartia tonsa Dana, Centropages velificatus De Oliveira and Eucalanus pileatus Giesbrecht was examined in shipboard experiments in the Mississippi River plume (northern Gulf of Mexico continental