In many areas of the Baltic Sea, three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) has
increased several fold since the early 2000s. Two major planktivores of the Baltic Sea …

Seagrass meadows and their associated biodiverse assemblages have declined globally
due to environmental and anthropogenic stressors. Restoration of these critical habitats has …

The goal of this perspective is to review how seagrass research has evolved over the past
half century to our current state of knowledge. We review how our knowledge of seagrass …

Seagrasses form important ecosystems providing essential provisioning and regulating
services. They exhibit acclimative properties to contend with environmental change while …

Seagrass meadows are well-known for their capacity to capture and store blue carbon in
sediments. However carbon stocks vary significantly between meadows, spanning more …

Protecting ocean habitats is critical for international efforts to mitigate climate impacts and
ensure food security, but the ecological data upon which policy makers base conservation …

Phragmites australis is a common helophyte, covering much of the sheltered and shallow
soft bottoms along the coasts of the Baltic Sea. Despite the expansion of P. australis over the …

Identifying the trophic role of primary producers is the basis of assessing seagrass bed
functions but remains difficult due to the underdetermined analysis method. Here, we …

In the last decades, climate change and human pressures have increasingly and
dramatically impacted the ocean worldwide, calling for urgent actions to safeguard coastal …

Ocean sprawl has become increasingly prevalent in marine environments. Artificial
substrates, notably floating structures like buoys, have gained significant attention in recent …