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New paper on the coupling between benthic and pelagic systems in the Baltic Sea
Published: 07 April 2017
There is currently a vast gap in our knowledge of how the coupling between marine ecosystems is affected by continued anthropogenic impact and environmental change.
Using the Baltic Sea as a case study, researchers from SLU Aqua is part of a recent review study that aims at filling this knowledge gap by highlighting how current and future coupling between benthic and pelagic systems is affected by changes in climate, eutrophication and fishing pressure.
The researches especially call for improved empirical and experimental understanding of benthic–pelagic coupling processes to inform models that can quantify the feedbacks among processes and ecosystem
responses to ongoing and future environmental change.
The results The importance of benthic–pelagic coupling for marine ecosystem functioning in a changing world has been published in Global Change Biology.