Introduction Comprehending species-specific reactions to climate variability is crucial for ecosystem-based fisheries management, especially for high-value multispecies fisheries. The waters of Taiwan harbour numerous commercially significant seabream species; nevertheless, the impact of large-scale climatic oscillations on their catch dynamics is inadequately characterised. Methods We examined catch trends of six principal se...

Coastal ecosystems are recognized as important carbon reservoirs. However, assessments of coastal carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) fluxes often neglect unvegetated tidal flats, particularly in peri-urban areas. This study investigated the gross primary production (GPP), net primary production (NPP), and total respiration (TR) of three tidal flats in Hong Kong, one of the largest cities in South China, during both summer and winter seaso...

Accurately predicting the prognosis of ischemic stroke patients after discharge is crucial for physicians to plan for long-term health care. Although previous studies have demonstrated that machine learning (ML) shows reasonably accurate stroke outcome predictions with limited datasets, to identify specific clinical features associated with prognosis changes after stroke that could aid physicians and patients in devising impro...

Grapsoid crabs (Decapoda: Grapsoidea) inhabiting along the land-sea transition provided various amounts and quality of vascular plant carbon (e.g., fresh mangrove leaf, leaf litter, and mangrove-derived organic carbon) and perform differing levels of herbivory. Other than endogenous cellulase, symbiotic cellulolytic bacteria could also contribute to the crabs’ vascular plant carbon assimilation and mineralization. In this stud...

The ecosystem services and functions of tidal flats have been overlooked for many decades, and tidal flat loss has been identified as a serious threat to many taxa in recent years, especially for migratory waterbirds. Despite the understanding of tidal flats change on the global scale, there are still a lot of unknowns on the small scale, including tidal flats in Taiwan, which are important stopover sites for migratory waterbi...

The microphytobenthos (MPB) are known to play important ecological roles in estuarine ecosystems. While tidal flat MPB are widely studied, mangrove MPB are often overlooked due to the common belief that the light-limited environment under the mangrove canopy is not conducive to MPB growth. We assessed the biomass and community characteristics of the MPB in two contrasting mangrove forests (silty substrate and brackish influenc...