Climate change significantly threatens coastal ecosystems, making effective conservation strategies essential and reliant on accurate data. This study employed the Sylt mesocosms facility to examine how coastal marine communities respond to both individual and combined stressors. Within the broader context of this research, environmental variables such as pH, temperature, and nutrient levels in the mesocosms were continuously...

Aim Understanding the processes that shape the distribution of biodiversity in the oceans is central for predicting and conserving ecosystems under global change. Although a vast literature exists on drivers of species diversity, the geographical patterns and drivers of ecosystem functioning, and in particular the traits that shape this functioning, remain relatively unexplored. We address this gap by testing the effects of en...

Legal requirement in Europe asks for Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management (EBFM) in European seas, including consideration of trophic interactions and minimization of negative impacts of fishing on food webs and ecosystem functioning. This study presents the first mass-balanced ecosystem model focused on the western Baltic Sea (WBS). Results show that heavy fishing pressure exerted on the WBS has forced top predators such as h...