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

Climate change has multiple effects on Baltic Sea species, communities and ecosystem
functioning through changes in physical and biogeochemical environmental characteristics …

Marginal populations are often isolated and under extreme selection pressures resulting in
anomalous genetics. Consequently, ecosystems that are geographically and ecologically …

As the most widespread seagrass in temperate waters of the Northern Hemisphere, Zostera
marina provides a unique opportunity to investigate the extent to which the historical legacy …

Understanding the genetic composition and mating systems of edge populations provides
important insights into the environmental and demographic factors sha** species' …

Increasing globalization has spread invasive marine organisms, but it is not well understood
why some species invade more readily than others. It is also poorly understood how species' …

Seagrasses began colonizing the marine environment 100 million years ago in the
Cretaceaous (den Hartog, 1970) and, like their terrestrial, wetland, and freshwater …

Aquatic angiosperms have evolved from a diverse assemblage of terrestrial lineages and
exhibit broad variation in morphology, life history, and reproductive systems. This variation …

Genetic diversity is one of three forms of biodiversity recognized by the IUCN as deserving
conservation along with species and ecosystems. Seagrasses provide all three levels in …

Reproduction of attached large brown algae is known to occur only by sexual zygotes. Using
microsatellites we show evolution of asexual reproduction in the bladder wrack promoting …