High emissions of carbon dioxide and methane from the coastal Baltic Sea at the end of a summer heat wave

C Humborg, MC Geibel, X Sun, M McCrackin… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The summer heat wave in 2018 led to the highest recorded water temperatures since 1926–
up to 21° C–in bottom coastal waters of the Baltic Sea, with implications for the respiration …

[HTML][HTML] Benthic-pelagic coupling in coastal seas–Modelling macrofaunal biomass and carbon processing in response to organic matter supply

E Ehrnsten, A Norkko, K Timmermann… - Journal of Marine …, 2019 - Elsevier
Benthic macrofauna is an important component linking pelagic and benthic ecosystems,
especially in productive coastal areas. Through their metabolism and behaviour, benthic …

Food sources drive temporal variation in elemental stoichiometry of benthic consumers

S Mäkelin, A Villnäs - Limnology and Oceanography, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Benthic fauna plays an important role in mediating biogeochemical cycles in coastal areas
by storing carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) in their body tissues at theoretically …

Increasing densities of an invasive polychaete enhance bioturbation with variable effects on solute fluxes

L Kauppi, G Bernard, R Bastrop, A Norkko, J Norkko - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Bioturbation is a key process affecting nutrient cycling in soft sediments. The invasive
polychaete genus Marenzelleria spp. has established successfully throughout the Baltic Sea …

Quantifying bioturbation across coastal seascapes: Habitat characteristics modify effects of macrofaunal communities

G Bernard, J Gammal, M Järnström, J Norkko… - Journal of Sea …, 2019 - Elsevier
Bioturbation by benthic macrofauna communities plays a significant role in the setting and
maintenance of important ecosystem functions and the delivery of associated ecosystem …

Functional shifts in estuarine zooplankton in response to climate variability

A Jansson, R Klais‐Peets, E Grinienė… - Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Functional traits are becoming more common in the analysis of marine zooplankton
community dynamics associated with environmental change. We used zooplankton groups …

Benthic fluxes of oxygen and inorganic nutrients in the archipelago of Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea–Effects of sediment resuspension measured in situ

J Niemistö, M Kononets, N Ekeroth, P Tallberg… - Journal of Sea …, 2018 - Elsevier
Benthic fluxes of oxygen and dissolved inorganic nutrients; phosphate (DIP), ammonium
(NH 4), nitrate+ nitrite (NO x), and silicate (DSi); and the effects of resuspension on these …

[HTML][HTML] A review of the worldwide distribution of Marenzelleria viridis, with new records for M. viridis, M. neglecta and Marenzelleria sp. (Annelida: Spionidae)

VI Radashevsky, VV Pankova, VV Malyar, J Cerca… - Zootaxa, 2021 - biotaxa.org
Marenzelleria Mesnil, 1896 is a small group of spionid polychaetes comprising five valid
species, all of which appear similar to each other. The identification of worms based on …

Sulfide oxidation in deep Baltic Sea sediments upon oxygenation and colonization by macrofauna

S Bonaglia, U Marzocchi, N Ekeroth, V Brüchert… - Marine Biology, 2019 - Springer
Coastal and shelf sediments affected by transient or long-term bottom water anoxia and
sulfidic conditions undergo drastic changes in macrofauna communities and abundances …

Benthic fluxes of oxygen and nutrients under the influence of macrobenthic fauna on the periphery of the intermittently hypoxic zone in the Baltic Sea

H Kendzierska, K Łukawska-Matuszewska… - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Understanding the role of benthic organisms in marine sediments is becoming increasingly
important with the growing problem of eutrophication of marine ecosystems around the …