This paper focuses on the marine foundation eelgrass species, Zostera marina, along a
gradient from the northern Baltic Sea to the north‐east Atlantic. This vast region supports a …

Marine ecosystems are experiencing rapid and pervasive changes in biodiversity and
species composition. Understanding the ecosystem consequences of these changes is …

Due to increasing pressure on the marine environment there is a growing need to
understand species–environment relationships. To provide background for prioritising …

Aquatic plant meadows are important coastal habitats that sustain many ecosystem
functions such as primary production and carbon sequestration. Currently, there is a …

Within mono-specific meadows of clonal plants, genotypic diversity may functionally replace
species diversity. Little is known about the variability in performance and plasticity of …

The majority of the southern Baltic Sea seabed encompasses homogenous soft-bottom
sediments of limited productivity and low biological diversity, but shallow productive areas in …

Knowledge of the connection between aquatic plant diversity and ecosystem processes is
still limited. To examine how plant species diversity affects primary productivity, plant nutrient …

In species-poor communities, genetic diversity potentially plays an important role for
ecosystem functioning, though this is still largely unexplored in marine and estuarine …

Harmful algal blooms are considered to be one of the biggest threats to benthic vegetation.
The amount of annual algal mats has increased due to eutrophication but their effects on …

Ecosystem functions provided by aquatic plants are context dependent and mediated by
environmental conditions and plant growth form. This impedes our ability to predict the …