The nature and ecological significance of epifaunal communities within marine ecosystems

YY Chen, GJ Edgar, RJ Fox - Oceanography and Marine Biology, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
As the rate of global change increases, the structure and functioning of marine ecosystems,
including the food webs that underpin them, will radically alter. Forecasting the …

Integrating human dimensions in decadal-scale prediction for marine social–ecological systems: lighting the grey zone

J Melbourne-Thomas, D Tommasi… - ICES Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The dynamics of marine systems at decadal scales are notoriously hard to predict—hence
references to this timescale as the “grey zone” for ocean prediction. Nevertheless, decadal …

Northeast Atlantic elasmobranch community on the move: Functional reorganization in response to climate change

N Coulon, S Elliott, N Teichert, A Auber… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
While spatial distribution shifts have been documented in many marine fishes under global
change, the responses of elasmobranchs have rarely been studied, which may have led to …

Trawl fishing impacts on the status of seabed fauna in diverse regions of the globe

T Mazor, CR Pitcher, W Rochester, MJ Kaiser… - Fish and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Bottom trawl fishing is a controversial activity. It yields about a quarter of the world's wild
seafood, but also has impacts on the marine environment. Recent advances have quantified …

Hidden players—Meiofauna mediate Ecosystem effects of Anthropogenic disturbances in the ocean

M Schratzberger, R Danovaro, J Ingels… - New horizons in …, 2023 - Springer
Humans have used, and had effects on, marine ecosystems throughout history. As the
human population and its economic activities increase, these effects intensify. Yet, our …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying zoobenthic blue carbon storage across habitats within the Arctic's Barents Sea

TA Souster, DKA Barnes, R Primicerio… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Arctic sea ice extent in September (when it is at its lowest) has declined 13% per decade
and the Arctic Ocean is becoming a more Atlantic influenced system. Rapid climate-forced …

Reconstructing three decades of total international trawling effort in the North Sea

E Couce, M Schratzberger… - Earth System Science …, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
Fishing–especially trawling–is one of the most ubiquitous anthropogenic pressures on
marine ecosystems worldwide, yet very few long-term, spatially explicit datasets on trawling …

Emerging priorities for microbial metagenome research

R Kirubakaran, KN ArulJothi, S Revathi… - Bioresource Technology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Overwhelming anthropogenic activities lead to deterioration of natural resources and the
environment. The microorganisms are considered desirable, due to their suitability for easy …

Influence of land-derived stressors and environmental variability on compositional turnover and diversity of estuarine benthic communities

DE Clark, F Stephenson, JE Hewitt, JI Ellis… - Marine Ecology …, 2021 - int-res.com
It can be challenging to differentiate community changes caused by human activities from
the influence of natural background variability. Using gradient forest analysis, we explored …

A wind of change for soft-sediment infauna within operational offshore windfarms

N Lefaible, U Braeckman, S Degraer… - Marine Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study,“artificial reef”(AR) impacts of offshore windfarms (OWFs) on the surrounding
soft-sediments were investigated. Benthic grab samples were collected at nearby (37.5 m) …