Physics

1. An aftereffect of global warming on tropical Pacific decadal variability*
2. Analysis of monthly variability of thermocline in the South China Sea*
3. A numerical study of the South China Sea Warm Current during winter monsoon relaxation*

Geology

1. Predicting the sinkage of a moving tracked mining vehicle using a new rheological formulation for soft deep-sea sediment*

Chemistry

1. Chemical characterization of fractions of dissolved humic substances from a marginal sea—a case from the Southern Yellow Sea*

Ecology

1. The morphological and molecular detection for the presence of toxic Cylindrospermopsis (Nostocales, Cyanobacteria) in Beijing city, China*
2. Solid sand particle addition can enhance the production of resting cysts in dinoflagellates*
3. Environmental characteristics of annual pico/nanophytoplankton blooms along the Qinhuangdao Coast*
4. Behavioral and physiological photoresponses to light intensity by intertidal microphytobenthos*
5. Net-phytoplankton communities in the Western Boundary Currents and their environmental correlations*
6. effects of elevated p CO 2 on physiological performance of marine microalgae Dunaliella salina (Chlorophyta,Chlorophyceae)*
7. Drivers of coastal bacterioplankton community diversity and structure along a nutrient gradient in the East China Sea*
8. Fish-mediated changes in bacterioplankton community composition: an in situ mesocosm experiment*
9. Response of ammonia-oxidizing betaproteobacteria to shortterm fertilization in a salt marsh in China*
10. Biodiverse rotifer assemblage (Rotifera: Eurotatoria) of floodplain lakes of the Brahmaputra basin of lower Assam,northeast India: composition and ecosystem diversity
11. Size-dependent responses of zooplankton to submerged macrophyte restoration in a subtropical shallow lake*

Continued from the back cover

1. Spatial variations in food web structures with alternative stable states: evidence from stable isotope analysis in a large eutrophic lake*

Biology

1. Relationship between oxygen concentration, respiration and filtration rate in blue mussel Mytilus edulis*
2. Impact of seawater carbonate variables on post-larval bivalve calcification*
3. Intestinal microbiota of healthy and unhealthy Atlantic salmon Salmo salar L. in a recirculating aquaculture system*
4. Influence of salinity on the early development and biochemical dynamics of a marine fish, Inimicus japonicus*
5. effects of dietary supplementation of Ulva pertusa and nonstarch polysaccharide enzymes on gut microbiota of Siganus canaliculatus*
6. Comparative analysis on microbial community associated with different gastrointestinal regions of wild northern snakehead C hanna argus Cantor, 1842*
7. Sex determination and differentiation in Aurelia sp.1: the absence of temperature dependence*
8. effect of decreasing temperature on the strobilation of Aurelia sp.1*
9. Characterization of a novel deep-sea microbial esterase EstC10 and its use in the generation of (R)-methyl 2-chloropropionate*
10. A thermostable serralysin inhibitor from marine bacterium Flavobacterium sp. YS-80-122*
11. Transcriptome profiling analysis of Mactra veneriformis by deep sequencing after exposure to 2,2′,4,4′-tetrabromodiphenyl ether*
12. Molecular characterization and expression analysis of Lilytype lectin ( Sm LTL) in turbot Scophthalmus maximus, and its response to Vibrio anguillarum*
13. Development of novel microsatellite markers for Holothurian scabra (Holothuriidae), Apostichopus japonicas(Stichopodidae) and cross-species testing in other sea cucumbers*
14. Complete genome of Cobetia marina JCM 21022 T and phylogenomic analysis of the family Halomonadaceae*
15. Morphological characters and DNA barcoding of Syngnathus schlegeli in the coastal waters of China*
16. Planaxidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the South China Sea*
17. Muelleria pseudogibbula, a new species from a newly recorded genus (Bacillariophyceae) in China*

Aquaculture and Fisheries

1. Morphological beak differences of loliginid squid, Uroteuthis chinensis and Uroteuthis edulis, in the northern South China Sea*
2. A comparison between benthic gillnet and bottom trawl for assessing fish assemblages in a shallow eutrophic lake near the Changjiang River estuary*
3. Hydroacoustic estimates of fish biomass and spatial distributions in shallow lakes*

1. Editorial Statement