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Erratum to: Salt Marsh Accretion and Storm Tide Variation: an Example from a Barrier Island in the North Sea
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Salt Marsh Accretion and Storm Tide Variation: an Example from a Barrier Island in the North Sea
We reconstruct past accretion rates of a salt marsh on the island of Sylt, Germany, using measurements of the radioisotopes 210Pb and 137Cs, as well as historical aerial photographs. Results from three cores indi...
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Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome: the scapegoat? Assessment of organ dysfunction between surviving and dying mice in the acute phase of polymicrobial sepsis
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Native Parasites Adopt Introduced Bivalves of the North Sea
Introduced species may have a competitive advantage over native species due to a lack of predators or pathogens. In the North Sea region, it has been assumed that no metazoan parasites are to be found in marin...
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Introduced Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas) in the northern Wadden Sea: invasion accelerated by warm summers?
Among the increasing number of species introduced to coastal regions by man, only a few are able to establish themselves and spread in their new environments. We will show that the Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gig...
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Carrion-feeding on the sediment surface at nocturnal low tides by the polychaete Phyllodoce mucosa
Harsh physical conditions in the intertidal zone are the cause of an ample amount of dead macroinvertebrates, which constitute a food source for carrion-feeders. In the European Wadden Sea, this trophic guild ...
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The American slipper limpet Crepidula fornicata (L.) in the northern Wadden Sea 70 years after its introduction
In 1934 the American slipper limpet Crepidula fornicata (L.) was first recorded in the northern Wadden Sea in the Sylt-Rømø basin, presumably imported with Dutch oysters in the preceding years. The present accou...
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"The metapopulation concept in coastal waters": preface
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More Sand to the Shorelines of the Wadden Sea Harmonizing Coastal Defense with Habitat Dynamics
In the Wadden Sea, dynamic shoreline habitats have suffered substantial losses, squeezed between a rigid coastal architecture and a rising sea level. Shore replenishments with sand taken from the bottom of the...
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Coastal and Shelf Processes, Science for Integrating Management
A major challenge facing us is to sustain human use of coastal areas and their natural resources within the context of increasing human pressures and uncertainty over the scale and nature of climate changes. T...
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Ecosystem Functioning and Biodiversity
The task of working group 4 was to examine the relationship between ecosystem functioning and biodiversity in marine systems. The definition of biodiversity used by the working group is the biological variabil...
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Density-dependent recruitment after winter disturbance on tidal flats by the lugworm Arenicola marina
The polychaete Arenicola marina is abundant and widespread on intertidal sand flats in Königshafen (island of Sylt, North Sea). Juveniles overwinter in subtidal channels and then colonize the upper tidal zone ab...
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Synthesis: Comparative Ecology of Sedimentary Shores
In the biota of sedimentary shores a few dominant species often manage to transform the coastal ecotone. Examples are the reefs or beds of suspension feeders, seagrass beds and algal mats. Dominant bioturbatin...
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Introduction
This book is an attempt to encourage comparative studies on the ecology of sedimentary shores. Most research on muddy and sandy shores has been local or regional, analyzing small to meso-scale patterns and the...
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Effects of herbivorous birds on intertidal seagrass beds in the northern Wadden Sea
During autumn migration (September to December), brent geese (Branta b. bernicla) and wigeon (Anas penelope) feed on the seagrass Zostera noltii in the nearshore, upper tidal zone leeward of the island of Sylt (e...
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Reply to the comment of Damm and Neudecker (1999): long-term decline in epibenthic fauna of tidal channels near the island of Sylt in the northern Wadden Sea
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Effects of barnacle epibionts on the periwinkle Littorina littorea (L.)
In a sandy bay with mussel beds in the Wadden Sea (Island of Sylt, eastern North Sea), periwinkles Littorina littorea (L.) were often strongly overgrown with the barnacle Balanus crenatus Bruguière in the lower ...
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Juvenile-adult distribution of the bivalve Mya arenaria on intertidal flats in the Wadden Sea: why are there so few year classes?
Patchy distribution is frequently observed in benthic marine invertebrates. In order to indentify factors causing spatial patterns in the bivalve Mya arenaria, abundances of juveniles and adults, as well as deat...
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Unjustifiably Ignored: Reflections on the Role of Benthos in Marine Ecosystems
The benthos is not highly regarded by most marine biologists. As a consequence, the in the past most funds have gone into pelagic research, despite the fact that the marine benthos has several properties which...
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On the population development of the introduced razor clamEnsis americanus near the island of Sylt (North Sea)
The American razor clamEnsis americanus (=E. directus) was introduced into the eastern North Sea in the late 1970s. By larval and poslarval drifting the species rapidly extended its distribution, now ranging from...
