Drifting algal mats are conglomerates of (usually) ephemeral filamentous algae that are
detached from their parent algal areas and end up forming clumps or mats of different sizes …

Eutrophication is known to affect the community structure of macroalgae by eg decreasing
the depth penetration of species and by shifting dominance from perennial to annual …

The indirect effects of climate on species interactions were initially surprising, but ecological
models that account for ecosystem decline have long underestimated their ubiquity and …

Some of the world's most limiting resources that influence ecosystem functioning (nitrogen,
phosphorous and freshwater) may rival global climate change in environmental and societal …

Intensive fish culture in open sea pens delivers large amounts of nutrients to coastal
environments. Relative to particulate waste impacts, the ecological impacts of dissolved …

Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) is an important transporter of solutes and fresh
water in coastal systems worldwide. In high island systems with a mixed semidiurnal tidal …

The aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of the processes and interactions which
occur after organisms have settled onto hard substrata. Following settlement, marine benthic …

The study aimed at investigating factors influencing the recovery of the canopy seaweed
Cystoseira brachycarpa. A manipulative experiment was done to test if in barren patches the …

Hardangerfjord is the second largest fjord in Norway and is situated on the southwest coast.
During the last century the fjord has been influenced by a variety of anthropogenous …

The in situ grazing experiments were performed in the shallow water rocky habitat of the
northern Baltic Sea during ice-free season 2002. In the experiments the effects of algal …