[HTML][HTML] The key role of zooplankton in ecosystem services: A perspective of interaction between zooplankton and fish recruitment

S Lomartire, JC Marques, AMM Gonçalves - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
Marine biota is a great source of ecosystem services. Recently, the involvement of marine
organisms in biotechnological applications has been discovered and become useful for the …

The impact of mobile demersal fishing on carbon storage in seabed sediments

G Epstein, JJ Middelburg, JP Hawkins… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Subtidal marine sediments are one of the planet's primary carbon stores and strongly
influence the oceanic sink for atmospheric CO2. By far the most widespread human activity …

[HTML][HTML] Atmospheric CO2 emissions and ocean acidification from bottom-trawling

TB Atwood, A Romanou, T DeVries… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Trawling the seafloor can disturb carbon that took millennia to accumulate, but the fate of
that carbon and its impact on climate and ecosystems remains unknown. Using satellite …

What a drag: Quantifying the global impact of chronic bottom trawling on continental shelf sediment

FKJ Oberle, CD Storlazzi, TJJ Hanebuth - Journal of Marine Systems, 2016 - Elsevier
Continental shelves worldwide are subject to intense bottom trawling that causes sediment
to be resuspended. The widely used traditional concepts of modern sedimentary transport …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying and valuing carbon flows and stores in coastal and shelf ecosystems in the UK

T Luisetti, RK Turner, JE Andrews, TD Jickells… - Ecosystem …, 2019 - Elsevier
Evidence shows that habitats with potential to mitigate against greenhouse gases
emissions, by taking up and storing CO 2, are being lost due to the effects of on-going …

The physical impact of towed demersal fishing gears on soft sediments

FG O'Neill, A Ivanović - ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2016 - academic.oup.com
An improved understanding of the physical interaction of towed demersal fishing gears with
the seabed has been developed in recent years, and there is a clearer view of the …

Physical disturbance by bottom trawling suspends particulate matter and alters biogeochemical processes on and near the seafloor

C Bradshaw, M Jakobsson, V Brüchert… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Bottom trawling is known to affect benthic faunal communities but its effects on sediment
suspension and seabed biogeochemistry are less well described. In addition, few studies …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term carbon storage in shelf sea sediments reduced by intensive bottom trawling

W Zhang, L Porz, R Yilmaz, K Wallmann, T Spiegel… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Bottom trawling represents the most widespread anthropogenic physical disturbance to
seafloor sediments on continental shelves. While trawling-induced changes to benthic …

Global meta‐analysis of demersal fishing impacts on organic carbon and associated biogeochemistry

J Tiano, E De Borger, S Paradis, C Bradshaw… - Fish and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The potential threat of fisheries on seabed carbon is a topic of growing concern, yet existing
literature presents inconsistencies leaving experts divided on the topic. We conducted a …

Food-web traits of the North Aegean Sea ecosystem (Eastern Mediterranean) and comparison with other Mediterranean ecosystems

K Tsagarakis, M Coll, M Giannoulaki… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2010 - Elsevier
A mass-balance trophic model was built to describe the food-web traits of the North Aegean
Sea (Strymonikos Gulf and Thracian Sea, Greece, Eastern Mediterranean) during the mid …