MEPS is a leading ecological journal publishing research on all aspects of marine, coastal and estuarine ecology. MEPS coverage includes the whole spectrum of species, habitats, biological organisation (cells to ecosystems) and research (fundamental and applied). Priority is given to outstanding research that advances our ecological understanding.
As of 1 January 2021, MEPS is a Plan S Transformative Journal committed to increasing the proportion of OA research content by at least 5% in absolute terms and at least 15% in relative terms, year-on-year. When 75% of the research content is published OA, the journal will “flip” to full OA. During the transformation process, which lasts until 31 December 2024, MEPS may be financially supported by cOAlition S funders. See also Transformative Journals in the "For Authors" section.
Print : ISSN 0171-8630
Online : ISSN 1616-1599
Published volumes are listed according to subscription year.
2023: | 704 705 706 707 708 709 710 711 712 713 714 715 716 717 718 719 720 721 722 723 |
2022: | 681 682 683 684 685 686 687 688 689 690 691 692 693 694 695 696 697 698 699 700 701 702 703 |
2021: | 658 659 660 661 662 663 664 665 666 667 668 669 670 671 672 673 674 675 676 677 678 679 680 |
2020: | 635 636 637 638 639 640 641 642 643 644 645 646 647 648 649 650 651 652 653 654 655 656 657 |
2019: | 612 613 614 615 616 617–618 619 620 621 622 623 624 625 626 627 628 629 630 631 632 633 634 |
Early volumes (more than five years since publication) are freely accessible to all users.
Early volumes (more than five years since publication) are freely accessible to all users. They are listed according to the subscription year to which they belonged.
In-press articles are listed online shortly after acceptance. Prepress abstracts are also made available. These have not yet been fully checked and copyedited and are therefore subject to change before actual publication. The article is however citable as "in press", using the DOI.
M 14469
Hu N, Huang Y, Yu Z, Zhang T, Liu D, Lee M
Handling- or digestion-limited predators: the role of body masses and habitat complexity in predator functional responses
Prepress abstract
M 14470
Durban JW, Matkin CO, Ellifrit DK, Andrews RD, Barrett-Lennard LG
Quantifying a stopover of killer whales preying on gray whales rounding the Alaska Peninsula
Prepress abstract
M 14403
Balbar AC, Metaxas A, Wu Y
Comparing approaches for estimating ecological connectivity at a local scale in a marine system
Prepress abstract | Marine functional connectivity
M 14427
Sartoretto S, Ledoux JB, Gueret E, Guillemain D, Ravel C, Moirand L, Aurelle D
About a mesophotic ‘giant’ Paramuricea clavata forest: ecological and genomic characterisation of a remarkable natural heritage
Prepress abstract
M 14429
Daban P, Hillinger A, Mucientes G, Blanco A, Alonso-Fernández A
Movement ecology determines isotopic niche width in the undulate skate Raja undulata
Prepress abstract | Marine functional connectivity
M 14434
Speare KE, Duran A, Miller MW, Moeller HV, Burkepile DE
Small-scale habitat selection by larvae of a reef-building coral
Prepress abstract
M 14440
Land-Miller H, Roos AM, Simon M, Dietz R, Sonne C, Pedro S, Rosing-Asvid A, Rigét FF, McKinney MA
Comparison of feeding niches between Arctic and northward moving sub-Arctic marine mammals in Greenland
Prepress abstract | Species range shifts, biological invasions and ocean warming
M 14443
Franklin PA, Jellyman D, Baker C, Birnie-Gauvin K, Jellyman P, Aarestrup K
Oceanic migration routes and behaviour of the New Zealand longfin eel (Anguilla dieffenbachii)
Prepress abstract
M 14445
Fonseca P, Barata M, Castanho S, Pousão-Ferreira P, Garrido S
Effect of diet composition and temperature on the gastric evacuation rate of European sardine: implication for egg predation estimates
Prepress abstract | Small pelagic fish: new research frontiers
M 14447
Mattos FMG, Yeemin T, Sutthacheep M, Feitosa JLL
Biogeographic and environmental drivers of reef fish diversity in coastal islands of the Gulf of Thailand
Prepress abstract
M 14448
Schukat A, Bode-Dalby M, Massing JC, Hagen W, Auel H
Carbon budgets of copepod communities in the northern Humboldt Current System off Peru
Prepress abstract
M 14449
Auch D, Steinen V, Steckhan L, Koppelmann R, Yari S, Mohrholz V, Schukat A, Fernández-Méndez M, Kittu LR, Peck MA
Oceanographic structuring of the mucous-mesh grazer community in the Humboldt Current off Peru
Prepress abstract
M 14450
Puebla-Aparicio M, Ascencio-Elizondo C, Vieira M, Amorim MCP, Duarte R, Fonseca PJ
Characterization of the fish acoustic communities in a Mozambican tropical coral reef
Prepress abstract
M 14451
Smith S, Kunc HP, Hewson I, Collins P
Elevated temperature linked to signs associated with sea star wasting disease in a keystone European species, Asterias rubens
Prepress abstract
M 14452
Kanno S, Heupel MR, Sheaves MJ, Simpfendorfer CA
Mangrove use by sharks and rays: A review
Prepress abstract
M 14453
Huizenga K, Oviatt C
Inshore juvenile lobsters threatened by warming waters and migratory fish predators in southern New England
Prepress abstract | Species range shifts, biological invasions and ocean warming
M 14454
Ensanyar-Volle O, Appoo J, Bunbury N, Clucas G, Khan N, Rocamora G, Sanchez C, Fayet AL
Differences in foraging range between white-tailed tropicbirds breeding on inner and outer Seychelles Islands
Prepress abstract
M 14455
Duncan SE, Fock HO, Sell AF, Hagen W
Trophic ecology of mesopelagic fishes in the northern and southern Benguela Upwelling Systems revealed through stable isotope patterns
Prepress abstract
M 14456
Clavel-Henry M, Dabrowski T, Giesler RJ, Crowe TP, Yearsley JM
Predicting the export of retention-oriented larvae from their natal population with coastal features: a modelling study on the Pacific oyster
Prepress abstract
M 14457
Croll JC, Mudde QD, van Kooten T, de Roos AM
Growth as measure for environmental conditions and relatedness of North Sea fish stocks
Prepress abstract
M 14458
Hermabessiere L, Thaysen C, Sherlock C, Choy CA, Rochman CM
Little evidence for bioaccumulation or biomagnification of microplastics in a deep-sea food web
Prepress abstract
M 14459
Jeannot LL, Mouronvalle C, Peyran C, Olabarria C, Beger M, Blanco A, Planes S
Deriving connectivity from relatedness: broad-scale isolation-by-distance in the shanny Lipophrys pholis
Prepress abstract | Marine functional connectivity
M 14460
Gong AY, Nosal AP, Cartamil DP, Anderson JM, Bellquist LF, Ben-Aderet NJ, Blincow KM, Burns ES, Freedman RM, Caldow C, Logan RK, Lowe CG, Semmens BX, Stirling BS, White CF, Hastings PA
Migration, aggregation, and philopatry of two nearshore elasmobranch species in the Southern California Bight
Prepress abstract
M 14461
Hütt JC, Corkeron P, van der Hoop JM, Moore MJ
The uncertain bioenergetics of North Atlantic right whales
Prepress abstract
M 14462
Davies JG, Humphreys EM, Evans T, Howells RJ, O’Hara-Murray R, Pearce-Higgins JW
Seabird abundances projected to decline in response to climate change in Britain and Ireland
Prepress abstract
M 14463
dos Santos I, Gonçalves AMM, Carreiro AR, Martins B, Rocha CP, Vieira C, Matos DM, Gutiérrez IB, Rodrigues I, Almeida N, Ramos JA, Paiva VH, Araújo PM
Similar breeding performance despite inter-annual differences in diet composition of seabirds inhabiting a tropical environment
Prepress abstract
M 14464
Ransome N, Frisch-Jordán A, Cheeseman T, Calambokidis J, Kew A, Titova O, Filatova O, Loneragan NR, Smith JN
Environmental drivers of persistent humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) feeding events in a Mexican breeding area
Prepress abstract
M 14465
Luján C, Oliveros-Ramos R, Barrier N, Leadley P, Shin YJ
Key species and indicators revealed by an uncertainty analysis of the marine ecosystem model OSMOSE
Prepress abstract | Small pelagic fish: new research frontiers
M 14466
Fenton KF, Salmond NH, Foreman SE, Curtis JS, Jowett T, Savage C, Wing SR
High-densities of large tuaki, the New Zealand cockle (Austrovenus stutchburyi) provide a post-settlement predation refuge for conspecific juveniles
Prepress abstract
M 14467
Rita D, Borrell A, Víkingsson G, Aguilar A
Alkenone Uk’37 index differs between thermally separated populations of fin whales and krill
Prepress abstract
M 14471
Reyna PB, Alurralde G, Taverna A, Scarabino F, Vélez-Rubio GM, Tatián M, Schwindt E
Hotspot areas of marine introduced species in the Southwestern Atlantic
Prepress abstract
M 14472
Cormack A, Slavich E, Negrete J, Bornemann H, Daneri GA, Rogers TL
Extreme dietary specialisation in adult male southern elephant seals: determining variation between individual trophic diets
Prepress abstract
M 14473
Lee B, Skeljo F, Randhawa HS, Brownscombe W, Arkhipkin A
Early life-history patterns in Patagonian toothfish Dissostichus eleginoides from the Patagonian Shelf
Prepress abstract
M 14474
Shih CY, Chang KZ, Wang PL, Chang J, Kang LK
Assessing inorganic nitrogen transport in marine phytoplankton assemblages through the 15N-tracer technique and metatranscriptomics
Prepress abstract
M 14475
Detmer AR
Modeling grazer-mediated effects of demographic and material connectivity on giant kelp metapopulation dynamics
Prepress abstract
M 14476
Rebstock GA, Boersma PD
Sex-specific migratory behavior in a marine predator results in higher risks to females
Prepress abstract
M 14477
Shahdadi A, Azan Z, Chan BKK
Phylogeography of the intertidal barnacle Chthamalus barnesi in the northwestern Indian Ocean
Prepress abstract
M 14478
Gómez-Valdez MM, Carvalho-Saucedo L, Ocampo L, Gutiérrez-González JL, Lluch-Cota DB
Hermaphroditism and the impact of environmental variables on atresia prevalence in the pen shell Pinna rugosa
Prepress abstract
M 14479
Trevail AM, Wood H, Carr P, Dunn R, Nicoll MA, Votier SC, Freeman R
Multi-colony tracking reveals segregation in foraging range, space use, and timing in a tropical seabird
Prepress abstract
M 14480
Brahim S, Sobrinho TG, Albino J, Zanetti G, do Amaral VS, Carneiro MTWD, de Souza JR, de Castro LB, Muehe D, de Souza BS, Brandão GP, Krause M, de Oliveira LHS, Coelho UP, da Silva EE, Silva IJe, Neves JdA, Paiva-Tagliari D, da Costa KG
Benthic fauna along sandy beaches enriched by metals after mining disaster
Prepress abstract
M 14481
Gama LR, Seminoff JA, Lemons GE, Fuentes MMPB, Pellizzari F, Meira-Filho MRC, Rosa L, Vélez-Rubio GM, da Silveira EL, Domit C
Diet composition of juvenile green turtles in the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean: long-term insights from a beach stranding program
Prepress abstract
M 14482
Wilber DH, Brown LJ, Griffin M, Carey DA
American lobster Homarus americanus responses to construction and operation of an offshore wind farm in Southern New England
Prepress abstract
M 14483
Ferrari DS, Nunes LT, Mendes TC, Ferreira CEL, Floeter SR
Hyperdominance and habitat composition drive reef fish foraging on Atlantic oceanic islands
Prepress abstract
M 14484
Pierucci A, Suaria G
Abundance and distribution of flying fishes (Exocoetidae) and flying squids (Ommastrephidae) in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean based on a large-scale visual survey
Prepress abstract
M 14485
Skjoldal HR, Sperfeld E
Size-fractioned zooplankton biomass in the Barents Sea: macroecological patterns across biogeography, climate, and varying ecosystem state (1989-2020)
Prepress abstract
M 14486
Roth JS, Wilson PC, Steele LT, Reynolds LK
Intraspecific variation in seagrass anti-herbivore defenses along a natural gradient in phosphorus availability impacts herbivore feeding decisions
Prepress abstract
M 14487
Priester CR, Dierking J, Hansen T, Abecasis D, Fontes JM, Afonso P
Trophic ecology and coastal habitat use of two sympatric shark species in the Azores archipelago (mid-Atlantic) assessed with CNS stable isotope analysis
Prepress abstract
M 14488
Long CA, Worthy GAJ, Paperno R, Ceriani SA, Mansfield KL
Harmful algal bloom impacts on juvenile green turtle foraging ecology: insights from stable isotope analysis
Prepress abstract
M 14489
Bendtsen J, Daugbjerg N, Jensen RS, Brady MC, Nielsen MH, Hansen JLS, Richardson K
Phytoplankton community changes in relation to nutrient fluxes along a quasi-stationary front
Prepress abstract
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