The North Sea has been identified as an area where the impacts of climate change and de‐eutrophication efforts are already apparent, specifically on phytoplankton communities, with shifts in biogeography, altered species composition, and increased biomass of harmful algal bloom (HAB) species. Here, we test whether environmental changes in the Dutch North Sea are associated with changes in the abundances of HAB species and if t...

Nutrients and light are major resources controlling growth, biomass, and community structure of phytoplankton. When looking at those resources individually, resource uptake and biochemical transformation, and thereby also the demand for resources, have been shown to be temperature‐dependent. However, there is still a lack of understanding of how temperature controls the response to multiple resources, although simultaneous lim...

The temporal dynamics of dissolved organic matter (DOM) are inherently linked with the functioning of aquatic ecosystems. Because DOM represents a complex mixture of millions of different compounds, the statistical analysis of DOM dynamics poses a huge challenge. Here, we present a statistical approach based on hierarchical clustering of time series that groups DOM compounds with synchronous dynamics. We applied this approach...

Stock enhancement activities provide an opportunity to examine density-dependent suppression of population biomass which is a fundamental issue for resource management and design of no-take-zones. We document ‘catch-and-wait’ fisheries enhancement where all but the largest lobsters are thrown back, recapturing them later after they have grown to a larger size. The residency, rate of return, and potential negative density-depen...