Soft-sediment habitats in intertidal and shallow subtidal marine ecosystems frequently
support extensive populations of benthic microalgae (microphytobenthos). These algal …

Archaea are widespread in marine sediments, but their occurrence and relationship with
natural salinity gradients in estuarine sediments is not well understood. This study …

A carbon budget for the northwest European continental shelf seas (NWES) was
synthesized using available estimates for coastal, pelagic and benthic carbon stocks and …

The increasing number and diversity of anthropogenic stressors in marine habitats have
multiple negative impacts on biological systems, biodiversity and ecosystem functions …

Extracellular polysaccharides (EPSs) produced by microalgae and cyanobacteria are
molecules with a great ecological significance for the producing organisms, serving in a …

Benthic diatoms are dominant primary producers in intertidal mudflats and constitute a major
source of organic carbon to consumers and decomposers residing within these ecosystems …

Nitrification, mediated by ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and ammonia-oxidizing
archaea (AOA), is important in global nitrogen cycling. In estuaries where gradients of …

The distribution of sulphate-reducing bacteria (SRB) in the sediments of the Colne River
estuary, Essex, UK covering different saline concentrations of sediment porewater was …

The geomorphic, oceanographic, terrestrial and anthropogenic attributes of the European
coastal zone are described and published data on ecosystem function (primary production …

The importance of temporal changes in the vertical distribution of microphytobenthic algae
on the overall functioning of intertidal biofilms were investigated with low‐temperature …