The importance of benthic-pelagic coupling for marine ecosystem functioning in a changing world

Patterns and drivers of fish community assembly in a large marine ecosystem

(2016) L Pecuchet et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Nutrient fluxes from reduced Baltic Sea sediment: effects of oxygenation and macrobenthos

(2016) N Ekeroth et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Regime shifts in marine communities: a complex systems perspective on food web dynamics

(2016) Johanna Yletyinen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Patterns and drivers of fish community assembly in a large marine ecosystem

(2016) L Pecuchet et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Nutrient fluxes from reduced Baltic Sea sediment: effects of oxygenation and macrobenthos

(2016) N Ekeroth et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Meiofauna enhances organic matter mineralization in soft sediment ecosystems

(2016) Francisco J. A. Nascimento et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Baltic Sea management: Successes and failures

(2015) Ragnar Elmgren et al.   AMBIO

Large-scale species invasion into a low-diversity system: spatial and temporal distribution of the invasive polychaetes Marenzelleria spp. in the Baltic Sea

(2015) Laura Kauppi et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Seafloor Ecosystem Function Relationships: In Situ Patterns of Change Across Gradients of Increasing Hypoxic Stress

(2015) Joanna Norkko et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Recovery of Danish Coastal Ecosystems After Reductions in Nutrient Loading: A Holistic Ecosystem Approach

(2015) Bo Riemann et al.   Estuaries and Coasts

Stickleback increase in the Baltic Sea – A thorny issue for coastal predatory fish

(2015) Ulf Bergström et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Human activities and climate variability drive fast-paced change across the world's estuarine-coastal ecosystems

(2015) James E. Cloern et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Marine benthic ecological functioning over decreasing taxonomic richness

(2015) Anna Törnroos et al.   JOURNAL OF SEA RESEARCH

Long-term progression and drivers of coastal zoobenthos in a changing system

(2015) B Weigel et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Context-dependent consequences of Marenzelleria spp. (Spionidae: Polychaeta) invasion for nutrient cycling in the Northern Baltic Sea

(2015) Alexey Maximov et al.   OCEANOLOGIA

Establishing Functional Relationships between Abiotic Environment, Macrophyte Coverage, Resource Gradients and the Distribution of Mytilus trossulus in a Brackish Non-Tidal Environment

(2015) Jonne Kotta et al.   PLoS One

An empirical model of the Baltic Sea reveals the importance of social dynamics for ecological regime shifts

(2015) Steven J. Lade et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Long-term progression and drivers of coastal zoobenthos in a changing system

(2015) B Weigel et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

One Step forward: Benthic Pelagic Coupling and Indicators for Environmental Status

(2015) Panagiotis D. Dimitriou et al.   PLoS One

Seasonal oxygen, nitrogen and phosphorus benthic cycling along an impacted Baltic Sea estuary: regulation and spatial patterns

(2014) S. Bonaglia et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Observed changes and variability of atmospheric parameters in the Baltic Sea region during the last 200 years

(2014) A Rutgersson et al.   CLIMATE RESEARCH

Long-term analysis of hydrography and sea-ice data in Tvärminne, Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea

(2014) Ioanna Merkouriadi et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Ontogenetic specialism in predators with multiple niche shifts prevents predator population recovery and establishment

(2014) A. van Leeuwen et al.   ECOLOGY

Ecosystem impacts of the widespread non-indigenous species in the Baltic Sea: literature survey evidences major limitations in knowledge

(2014) Henn Ojaveer et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Impact of eutrophication and climate change on fish and zoobenthos in coastal waters of the Baltic Sea

(2014) Martin Snickars et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Effects of bioirrigation by the three sibling species of Marenzelleria spp. on solute fluxes and porewater nutrient profiles

(2014) JR Renz et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Realized niche width of a brackish water submerged aquatic vegetation under current environmental conditions and projected influences of climate change

(2014) Jonne Kotta et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Long-Term Changes in Nutrients and Mussel Stocks Are Related to Numbers of Breeding Eiders Somateria mollissima at a Large Baltic Colony

(2014) Karsten Laursen et al.   PLoS One

Deoxygenation of the Baltic Sea during the last century

(2014) J. Carstensen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Real world biodiversity–ecosystem functioning: a seafloor perspective

(2014) Paul V.R. Snelgrove et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Effects of climate change on European ducks: what do we know and what do we need to know?

(2014) Matthieu Guillemain et al.   WILDLIFE BIOLOGY

Meiofauna increases bacterial denitrification in marine sediments

(2014) S. Bonaglia et al.   Nature Communications

Predators with Multiple Ontogenetic Niche Shifts Have Limited Potential for Population Growth and Top-Down Control of Their Prey

(2013) Anieke van Leeuwen et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Climate-induced response of commercially important flatfish species during the 20th century

(2013) Claus Reedtz Sparrevohn et al.   FISHERIES OCEANOGRAPHY

Rapid climate driven shifts in wintering distributions of three common waterbird species

(2013) Aleksi Lehikoinen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Ecological value of coastal habitats for commercially and ecologically important species

(2013) Rochelle D. Seitz et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Effects of winter water temperature on mass loss in Baltic blue mussels: Implications for foraging sea ducks

(2013) P. Waldeck et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

An assessment of upper ocean carbon and nitrogen export fluxes on the boreal continental shelf: A 3-year study in the open Baltic Sea comparing sediment traps,234Th proxy, nutrient, and oxygen budgets

(2013) Ö. Gustafsson et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY-METHODS

Diet of musselsMytilus trossulusandDreissena polymorphain a brackish nontidal environment

(2013) Velda Lauringson et al.   Marine Ecology-An Evolutionary Perspective

Effect of reoxygenation and Marenzelleria spp. bioturbation on Baltic Sea sediment metabolism

(2013) S Bonaglia et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Cumulative impacts on seabed habitats: An indicator for assessments of good environmental status

(2013) Samuli Korpinen et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Top-Down Regulation, Climate and Multi-Decadal Changes in Coastal Zoobenthos Communities in Two Baltic Sea Areas

(2013) Jens Olsson et al.   PLoS One

Size matters: implications of the loss of large individuals for ecosystem function

(2013) Alf Norkko et al.   Scientific Reports

Uncertainties in a Baltic Sea Food-Web Model Reveal Challenges for Future Projections

(2012) Susa Niiranen et al.   AMBIO

Biological ensemble modeling to evaluate potential futures of living marine resources

(2012) Anna Gårdmark et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Ecosystem flow dynamics in the Baltic Proper—Using a multi-trophic dataset as a basis for food–web modelling

(2012) M.T. Tomczak et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Comparing reconstructed past variations and future projections of the Baltic Sea ecosystem—first results from multi-model ensemble simulations

(2012) H E Markus Meier et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Modeling the impact of reduced sea ice cover in future climate on the Baltic Sea biogeochemistry

(2012) K. Eilola et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Increased freshwater discharge shifts the trophic balance in the coastal zone of the northern Baltic Sea

(2012) Johan Wikner et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Nutrient reduction and climate change cause a potential shift from pelagic to benthic pathways in a eutrophic marine ecosystem

(2012) Martin Lindegren et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Abiotic drivers of coastal fish community change during four decades in the Baltic Sea

(2012) J. Olsson et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Modelling macrofaunal biomass in relation to hypoxia and nutrient loading

(2012) Karen Timmermann et al.   JOURNAL OF MARINE SYSTEMS

Burial and decomposition of plant pigments in surface sediments of the Baltic Sea: role of oxygen and benthic fauna

(2012) AB Josefson et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Consequences of Increasing Hypoxic Disturbance on Benthic Communities and Ecosystem Functioning

(2012) Anna Villnäs et al.   PLoS One

Drivers of change in estuarine-coastal ecosystems: Discoveries from four decades of study in San Francisco Bay

(2012) James E. Cloern et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Effect of climate change on the thermal stratification of the baltic sea: a sensitivity experiment

(2011) R. Hordoir et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Benthic diversity gradients and shifting baselines: implications for assessing environmental status

(2011) A. Villnäs et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Hypoxia Is Increasing in the Coastal Zone of the Baltic Sea

(2011) Daniel J. Conley et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Hypoxia in future climates: A model ensemble study for the Baltic Sea

(2011) H. E. M. Meier et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

A welcome can of worms? Hypoxia mitigation by an invasive species

(2011) Joanna Norkko et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Contrasting effects of the polychaetes Marenzelleria viridis and Nereis diversicolor on benthic metabolism and solute transport in sandy coastal sediment

(2011) E Kristensen et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Spatial and temporal density dependence regulates the condition of central Baltic Sea clupeids: compelling evidence using an extensive international acoustic survey

(2011) Michele Casini et al.   POPULATION ECOLOGY

Integrating food web diversity, structure and stability

(2011) Neil Rooney et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Ecological forecasting under climate change: the case of Baltic cod

(2010) M. Lindegren et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ecosystem Services as a Common Language for Coastal Ecosystem-Based Management

(2009) ELISE F. GRANEK et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Trawl disturbance on benthic communities: chronic effects and experimental predictions

(2009) Hilmar Hinz et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Responses of benthic–pelagic coupling to climate change in a temperate estuary

(2009) Robinson W. Fulweiler et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Trade, transport and trouble: managing invasive species pathways in an era of globalization

(2009) Philip E. Hulme   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Rapid warming of Large Marine Ecosystems

(2009) Igor M. Belkin   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

ECOLOGY: Controlling Eutrophication: Nitrogen and Phosphorus

(2009) D. J. Conley et al.   SCIENCE

Alien species in a warmer world: risks and opportunities

(2009) Gian-Reto Walther et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The impact of changing climate on phenology, productivity, and benthic–pelagic coupling in Narragansett Bay

(2008) Scott W. Nixon et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Effects of bottom trawling on ecosystem functioning

(2008) Frode Olsgard et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Settling cyanobacterial blooms do not improve growth conditions for soft bottom meiofauna

(2008) Francisco J.A. Nascimento et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Distribution of a marginal population of Mytilus edulis: responses to biotic and abiotic processes at different spatial scales

(2008) Mats Westerbom et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems

(2008) Benjamin S. Halpern et al.   SCIENCE

Spreading Dead Zones and Consequences for Marine Ecosystems

(2008) R. J. Diaz et al.   SCIENCE