A5006954930- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Marine and fisheries research
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
- Plant Pathogens and Resistance
- Aeolian processes and effects
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Geological formations and processes
- Cephalopods and Marine Biology
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Plant and animal studies
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Crustacean biology and ecology
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation
University of Groningen
2016-2025
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
2018-2025
Utrecht University
2018-2024
Radboud University Nijmegen
2015-2024
Macquarie University
2024
Institut de Biologia Evolutiva
2024
In wetland soils and underwater sediments of marine, brackish freshwater systems, the strong phytotoxin sulfide may accumulate as a result microbial reduction sulfate during anaerobiosis, its level depending on prevailing edaphic conditions. this review, we compare an extensive body literature phytotoxic effects reduced sulfur compound in different ecosystem types, review at multiple levels: ecophysiological functioning individual plants, plant-microbe associations, community including...
Seagrasses are important marine ecosystems situated throughout the world's coastlines. They facing declines around world due to global and local threats such as rising ocean temperatures, coastal development pollution from sewage outfalls agriculture. Efforts have been made reduce seagrass loss through reducing regional stressors, active restoration. Seagrass restoration is rapidly maturing but improved practices needed enhance success of future programs. Major gaps in knowledge remain,...
Societal Impact Statement Seagrass ecosystems are of fundamental importance to our planet and wellbeing. Seagrasses marine flowering plants, which engineer that provide a multitude ecosystem services, for example, blue foods carbon sequestration. have largely been degraded across much their global range. There is now increasing interest in the conservation restoration these systems, particularly context climate emergency biodiversity crisis. The collation 100 questions from experts Europe...
Summary 1. Populations of marine megaherbivores including green turtle ( Chelonia mydas ) have declined dramatically at a global scale as result overharvesting and habitat loss. This decline can be expected to also affect the tolerance seagrass systems coastal eutrophication. Until now, however, simultaneous effects top–down control by megaherbivore grazing bottom–up nutrient input not been tested experimentally. 2. We therefore investigated interacting (N P) addition mimicked on epiphyte...
Restoration is becoming a vital tool to counteract coastal ecosystem degradation. Modifying transplant designs of habitat-forming organisms from dispersed clumped can amplify restoration yields as it generates self-facilitation emergent traits, i.e. traits not expressed by individuals or small clones, but that emerge in large clones. Here, we advance science mimicking key locally suppress physical stress using biodegradable establishment structures. Experiments across (sub)tropical and...
Abstract Vegetated marine and freshwater habitats are being increasingly lost around the world. Habitat restoration is a critical step for conserving these valuable habitats, but new approaches needed to increase success ensure their survival. We investigated interactions between plants bivalves through review analysis of 491 studies, determined effects, mechanisms key environmental variables involved in driving positive negative interactions, produced guidelines integrating into efforts...
Abstract Intertidal habitats (i.e. marine that are (partially) exposed during low tide) have traditionally been studied from a shorebird‐centred perspective. We show these accessible and important to predators such as elasmobranchs sharks rays). Our synthesis shows at least 43 shark 45 ray species, of which 54.5% currently threatened, use intertidal habitats. Elasmobranchs mostly for feeding refugia, but also parturition thermoregulation. However, the motivation habitat remains unclear due...
The diversity and structure of ecosystems has been found to depend both on trophic interactions in food webs other species such as habitat modification mutualism that form non-trophic interaction networks. However, quantification the dependencies between these two main networks remained elusive. In this study, we assessed how habitat-modifying organisms affect basic web properties by conducting in-depth empirical investigations ecosystems: North American temperate fringing marshes West...
Highlights•Climate extremes may cause breakdown of the facultative seagrass-lucinid mutualism•Loss this mutualistic feedback can amplify seagrass ecosystem degradation•Risk marine mutualism goes beyond obligate coral symbiosis•These mechanisms need inclusion in conservation and restoration approachesSummaryIn many ecosystems, biodiversity critically depends on foundation species such as corals seagrasses that engage interactions [1–3]. Concerns grow environmental disruption mutualisms...
Seagrasses form the foundation of many coastal ecosystems but are rapidly declining on a global scale. The Dutch Wadden Sea once supported extensive subtidal seagrass meadows that have all disappeared. Here, we report setbacks and successes intertidal seed-based restoration experiments in between 2014–2017. Our main goals were to 1) optimize plant densities, 2) reduce seed losses. To achieve our goals, conducted research-based, adaptive ( Zostera marina ) restoration, adjusting methods...
Abstract Salt marshes fronting coastal structures, such as seawalls and dikes, may offer important ecosystem‐based defence by reducing the wave loading run‐up levels during storms. We question (i) how long‐term salt marsh development in Dutch Wadden Sea relates to tidal‐flat foreshore bathymetry (ii) onto which enhances risk of dike failure, depends on bathymetry, presence/absence marshes, vegetation properties, tidal range wind exposure. analysed 15 years maps along entire coast,...
Anthropogenic activity has irreparably altered the ecological fabric of Earth. The emergence novelty from diverse drivers change is an increasingly challenging dimension ecosystem restoration. At same time, restorationist's tool kit continues to grow, including a variety powerful and prevalent technologies. Thus, restoration finds itself at center intersecting challenges. How should we respond common environmental system states with little or no historical precedent, whilst considering...
Changes in the seascape often result altered hydrodynamics that lead to coinciding changes sediment dynamics. Little is known on how dynamics affect long-term seagrass persistence. We studied thresholds of relation presence by comparing characteristics and data seven separate meadows. All meadows had a (>20 years) presence. Within these meadows, we distinguish so-called "hotspots" (areas within meadow where was found during all mapping campaigns) "coldspots" (with infrequent presence)....
Summary Restoration of key species in dynamic coastal ecosystems benefits from reduction environmental stress. This can be realized by promoting positive feedback (intrinsic processes) or reducing extrinsic negative forcing. In a seagrass ( Zostera noltii ) restoration project the south‐western Netherlands, we investigated transplantation success relation to intrinsic processes (i.e. comparing sods vs. single shoots, transplant size, configuration and density) forcing bioturbation Arenicola...
Understanding the connectivity among seascape habitats is an important emerging topic in marine ecology and coastal management. Mangroves are known to provide many ecosystem services such as protection carbon cycling, but their functional relationships with adjacent benthic intertidal communities less clear. We examined how spatial adjacency mangroves affects macrobenthic of mudflats a tropical estuarine ecosystem. In Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau, macrofauna assemblages were compared...
Coastal ecosystems globally face pressures, with natural coastal habitats being replaced by engineered structures. While hard structures for navigation‐purposes and defense can negatively impact native communities, they also be applied in ecological restoration as artificial reefs. This way substrates may facilitate establishment of biogenic (shellfish) reefs provide habitat heterogeneity soft‐sediment ecosystems. In a 1.5‐year experiment, we introduced six different types or biodegradable...
Coastal reefs benefit the survival and growth of mobile organisms by providing shelter increased food availability. Under increasing pressure from human activities, coverage subtidal has decreased along world’s coasts. This decline is motivating efforts to restore these important habitats re-introducing hard substrates into coastal zone. However, many such projects use artificial substrates, as concrete or metal, that are not naturally occurring in marine environment. We experimentally...
Abstract Though there is mounting evidence that climate warming altering trophic interactions between organisms, its effects on non-trophic remain relatively undocumented. In seagrass systems, the bioturbating activity of infauna influences annual patch development by influencing seed burial depth and germination success as well sediment properties. If bioturbation altered warming, consequences may result. Here, we assessed how heatwaves alter rates when no bioturbators (control), single...
In a seagrass restoration project, we explored the potential for enhancing process by excluding antagonistic engineering interactions (i.e., biomechanical warfare) between two ecosystem engineers: bioturbating lugworm Arenicola marina and sediment-stabilizing Zostera noltii Hornem. Applying shell layer underneath half of our transplants successfully reduced adult density over 80% lugworm-induced microtopography (a proxy disturbance) at wave-sheltered site. At wave-exposed site densities were...