The microplastic body burden of marine animals is often assumed to reflect levels of
environmental contamination, yet variations in feeding ecology and regional trait expression …

Bioirrigation the animal-induced exchange of solutes between pore water and overlying
water-is a key process in sediments with profound implications for biogeochemical …

Coastal and shelf environments support high levels of biodiversity that are vital in mediating
ecosystem processes, but they are also subject to noise associated with mounting levels of …

Biological traits analysis (BTA) provides insight into causes and consequences of
biodiversity change that cannot be achieved using traditional taxonomic approaches …

The activities of a diverse array of sediment-dwelling fauna are known to mediate carbon
remineralisation, biogeochemical cycling and other important properties of marine …

The ecological consequences of environmental change are highly dependent on the
functional contributions of the surviving community, but categorical descriptors commonly …

Climate change affects the marine environment on many levels with profound
consequences for numerous biological, chemical, and physical processes. Benthic …

By applying modern biological criteria to trace fossil types and assessing burrow
morphology, complexity, depth, potential burrow function and the likelihood of bioirrigation …

Climate change is known to affect the distribution and composition of species, but
concomitant alterations to functionally important aspects of behaviour and species …

Bioturbation is one of the key mediators of biogeochemical processes in benthic habitats
that can have a high contribution to seafloor functioning and benthic pelagic coupling in …