The introduction of artificial hard substrates in an area dominated by a sandy seabed
increases habitat available to epifouling organisms. To investigate this, samples were taken …

Offshore wind farms (OWFs) act as artificial reefs, attracting high abundances of fish, which
could potentially increase their local production. This study investigates the feeding ecology …

Recent papers have suggested that epifaunal organisms use artificial structures as stepping‐
stones to spread to areas that are too distant to reach in a single generation. With thousands …

Offshore platforms are known to act as artificial reefs, though there is on-going debate on
whether this effect is beneficial or harmful for the life in the surrounding marine environment …

The presence of biofouling communities in very large densities in offshore wind farms
(OWFs) generates broad effects on the structure and functioning of the marine ecosystem …

Subtidal hard substrate habitats are unique habitats in the marine environment. They
provide crucial ecosystem services that are socially relevant, such as water clearance or as …

Abstract The North Sea was once abundantly covered with hard substrates such as oyster
beds, coarse peat banks and glacial erratics, providing habitat to a rich community of marine …

Abstract The European flat oyster, Ostrea edulis, is an emblematic and ecologically
important species that was fished to virtual extinction in Belgian and Dutch waters in the 19th …

In this paper, object-based image analysis classification methods are developed that do not
rely on backscatter in order to classify the seafloor. Instead, these methods make use of …

Globally, marine subtidal hard-substrate habitats provide important ecological functions to a
variety of sessile and mobile taxa. The southern North Sea is a marine environment with …