1st NEREIS PARK Conference 2004

Official poster sessions: Sunday 7 and Monday 8

Movement of particles in the bioturbated zone

Kiara Burke et al.
Macrofaunal biodiversity, nutrient cycling and the impact of predation and opportunistic macroalgae on infaunal bioturbation: implications for ecosystem function

Aurélie Ciutat
Influence of cockle density and water current on sediment resuspension and the potential for release of contaminants

Aurélie Ciutat et al.
Stratigraphic effects of tubificids bioturbation in freshwater sediments

Eric Duport et al.
Benthic macrofauna and sediment reworking quantification at the Thau Lagoon

Patrick Gillet
Bioturbation of Heteromastus filiformis (polychaeta, capitellidae) in the Loire estuary, atlantic coast, France

Vincent Grossi et al.
Macrofaunal reworking activities and hydrocarbon redistribution in an experimental sediment system

Jenny Hedman et al.
The role of organic matter quality on invertebrate bioturbation activity and distribution of contaminants in Baltic Sea sediment

Pascal Lecroart
A numerical estimation of the error on the bioturbation coefficient in coastal environments by radioisotopes modeling

Volodymyr S. Malyuga et al.
General solutions for non-local exchange models of bioturbation: when mathematics meets biology

Cristian Mugnai et al.
Quantification of bioturbation in sediments of the Venice Lagoon (Italy)

Sabine Schmidt et al.
Tracing sediment dynamic on seasonal time at the water-sediment interface of the thau lagoon using Be-7 and Th-234

Sabine Schmidt et al.
Comparison of sediment reworking quantification using radionuclides and luminophores

Mark Shields et al.
Macrofauna abundance, biomass and bioturbation potential within the northern seas region: initial results

Bioirrigation and solute transport

Eric Breuer et al.
The relationship between faunal density and oxygen dynamics in deep-sea sediments along a North Atlantic latitudinal transect

Eric Breuer et al.
Benthic processes in the Arabian Sea: Mechanistic relationships between macrofaunal communities, sedimentary biogeochemistry, and organic matter cycling and distribution.

Suzanne Dufour et al.
The sulphide mining behaviour of chemosymbiotic thyasirid bivalves

Oleksiy Galaktionov et al.
Bio-irrigational transport of reactive tracers in permeable sediments: 3D flow patterns versus 1D model averaging

Stefan Hulth et al.
Imaging solute distributions in the bioturbated zone of marine sediments using plate fluorosensors

Emma Michaud et al.
The effects of the functional diversity of the Macoma balthica community on oxygen and ammonium fluxes at the sediment-water interface

Bioturbation and elemental cycling

Sarah Caradec et al.
Dietary impact of Arenicola marina on fatty acids and bacterial communities structure in marine sediments

Philippe Cuny et al.
Impact of marine polychaete bioturbation on Eubacterial communities’ structure of coastal sediment: a molecular fingerprint approach

Sébastien Delmotte et al.
Effects of meiobenthos on the mineralization of organic matter and fluxes of nutrients at the water-sediment interface in a reservoir conditions: theoritical approach

Gaston Desrosiers et al.
Visualization and quantification of the major components of Macoma balthica communities in the sedimentary column using cat-scan

Marie Gagnoud et al.
Axial tomodensitometry (Cat-scan): a non-destructive method enabling sedimentary facies analysis of glaciomarine mud

Franck Gilbert et al.
Redox oscillation: an efficient way for the bioturbating infauna to control the nitrogen cycle

Stefan Hulth et al.
Alternative routes during N cycling in marine environments: implications from macrofaunal reworking in surface sediments

Satomi Kamimura and Makoto Tsuchiya
The role of opportunistic feeding gastropods in intertidal flat organic material fluxes

Anja Kamp and Ursula Witte
The importance of macrofauna for carbon processing in a fine-grained sandy shelf sediment (North Sea): experiments with 13C labelled phytoplankton

Sally Marsh et al.
Measuring, mapping and modelling bioturbation and denitrification

Karl Norling et al.
Importance of functional group biodiversity for mineralization of organic matter in two benthic ecosystems the Baltic Sea and the Skagerrak

Jean-Christophe Poggiale et al.
Reworking functional groups and nitrogen cycling: a model contribution

Caroline Tolla et al.
Interactions between macrobenthic and microbial communities through the sedimentary column, consequences on the organic matter fate: A modelling approach

Michael Townsend et al.
An experimental investigation into the relationship between bioturbator diversity and ecosystem function

Makoto Tsuchiya and Prosper L. Mfilinge
Particle transfer by sea cucumbers: bioturbation or biopurification?