A good understanding of the mechanisms and magnitude of the impact of invasive alien
species on ecosystem services and biodiversity is a prerequisite for the efficient prioritisation …

Pacific oysters are now one of the most 'globalised'marine invertebrates. They dominate
bivalve aquaculture production in many regions and wild populations are increasingly …

Abstract The Wadden Sea is a shallow coastal region, with a large area of sedimentary tidal
flats that extends from The Netherlands to Denmark and has been declared a site of …

Recently, long filamentous bacteria have been reported conducting electrons over
centimetre distances in marine sediments. These so-called cable bacteria perform an …

Coastal habitats provide many important ecosystem services. The substantial role of
shellfish in delivering ecosystem services is increasingly recognised, usually with a focus on …

Reef-building bivalves like oysters and mussels are conspicuous ecosystem engineers in
intertidal and subtidal coastal environments. By forming complex, three-dimensional …

The “Dutch Energy Agreement” motivates governments and industries to invest in renewable
energy sources, of which offshore wind energy is one of the solutions to meet the agreed …

Ecosystem engineers that inhabit coastal and estuarine environments, such as reef building
oysters, do not only stabilise the sediment within their reefs, but their influence might also …

Mounting evidence indicates that spatial interactions are important in structuring coastal
ecosystems. Until recently, however, most of this work has been focused on seemingly …

The diversity and structure of ecosystems has been found to depend both on trophic
interactions in food webs and on other species interactions such as habitat modification and …