Factors regulating the coastal nutrient filter in the Baltic Sea

J Carstensen, DJ Conley, E Almroth-Rosell, E Asmala… - Ambio, 2020 - Springer
The coastal zone of the Baltic Sea is diverse with strong regional differences in the physico-
chemical setting. This diversity is also reflected in the importance of different biogeochemical …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental context mediates biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships in coastal soft-sediment habitats

J Gammal, M Järnström, G Bernard, J Norkko, A Norkko - Ecosystems, 2019 - Springer
The ongoing loss of biodiversity and global environmental changes severely affect the
structure of coastal ecosystems. Consequences, in terms of ecosystem functioning, are …

Quantifying the importance of functional traits for primary production in aquatic plant communities

C Gustafsson, A Norkko - Journal of Ecology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aquatic plant meadows are important coastal habitats that sustain many ecosystem
functions such as primary production and carbon sequestration. Currently, there is a …

Estimating respiration rates and secondary production of macrobenthic communities across coastal habitats with contrasting structural biodiversity

IF Rodil, KM Attard, J Norkko, RN Glud, A Norkko - Ecosystems, 2020 - Springer
A central goal of benthic ecology is to describe the pathways and quantities of energy and
material flow in seafloor communities over different spatial and temporal scales. We …

Sediment properties, biota, and local habitat structure explain variation in the erodibility of coastal sediments

M Joensuu, CA Pilditch, R Harris… - Limnology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Sediment resuspension is a frequent phenomenon in coastal areas and a key driver for
many ecosystem functions. Sediment resuspension is often linked to biological and …

Elevated turbidity and the nutrient removal capacity of seagrass

RH Bulmer, M Townsend, T Drylie… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Seagrass meadows provide a range of important ecosystem functions that can be influenced
by anthropogenic pressures. Sediment loading from coastal land use mismanagement can …

Contribution of macroalgal wrack consumers to dissolved inorganic nitrogen concentrations in intertidal pore waters of sandy beaches

HE Lowman, KA Emery, L Kubler-Dudgeon… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Sandy beaches are widespread ecosystems that often sustain food webs with allochthonous
subsidies of organic matter. We examined the contribution of intertidal talitrid amphipods, a …

The response of nitrogen cycling and bacterial communities to E. coli invasion in aquatic environments with submerged vegetation

L Gu, J Wu, Z Hua, K Chu - Journal of environmental management, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstracts The effects of exogenous Escherichia coli on nitrogen cycling (N-cycling) in
freshwater remains unclear. Thus, seven ecosystems, six with submerged plants …

The fight to capture light: Functional diversity is related to aquatic plant community productivity likely by enhancing light capture

C Angove, A Norkko, C Gustafsson - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Functional diversity (FD) experiments are highly effective for investigating how a community
interacts with its environment. However, such experiments using morphological and …

Role of eelgrass in the coastal filter of contrasting Baltic Sea environments

E Asmala, C Gustafsson, D Krause-Jensen… - Estuaries and …, 2019 - Springer
Coastal ecosystems act as filters of nutrients from land to the open sea. We investigated the
role of eelgrass (Zostera marina) metabolism in the coastal filter transforming nitrogen …