Coastal oceans are particularly affected by rapid and extreme environmental changes with
dramatic consequences for the entire ecosystem. Seagrasses are key ecosystem …

Fluxes of energy, materials and organisms among ecosystems are consequences of their
openness to exchange and lead to the consideration of reciprocal connections among …

Not all stress is stressful; instead, it appears that stress in the environment, below the
mutation threshold, is essential for many subtle manifestations of population structures and …

Ongoing climate changes alter a broad range environmental variables in coastal
ecosystems, which may lead to changes in species range distributions or collapse of …

Global (eg climate change) and local factors (eg nutrient enrichment) act together in nature
strongly hammering coastal ecosystems, where seagrasses play a critical ecological role …

Seagrasses are marine flowering plants that form extensive meadows from the inter-tidal
zone up to~ 50 m depth. As biological and ecological Essential Biodiversity Variables …

Coastal seagrass habitats are at risk from a range of anthropogenic activities that modify the
natural light environment, including dredging activities associated with coastal and port …

Coastal vegetated habitats such as mangroves, salt marshes, and seagrasses, referred to as
blue carbon ecosystems, play an important role in climate change mitigation by an effective …

In an 8‐week aquarium experiment, we investigated the interactive effects of waves (present
vs. absent) and water‐column nutrient level (high vs. low) on the survival, growth …

A crucial factor in the long-term survival of benthic macrophyte communities under light-
reduction stress is how they balance carbon metabolism during photosynthesis and …