Coastal Ecology

Coastal Science at the AWI (mainly the Sections CE and SSSE) specifically addresses Earth System needs, whereby overarching issues relevant to PACES are exemplified by the following facts:

roughly 70% of all humans will live at a coast by 2070 (UNEP 2016)
12-15% of the population relies on fisheries/aquaculture (FAO 2016)
tourism is the world's largest industry - a coastal industry (UNEP 2009/13)
artificial surfaces in European coasts/catchments increase at >190 km2 per year (EEA 2013).

Urbanization of Coastal and Shelf Seas

Wiltshire, 2017, COME, Decommissioning 2017, hdl:10013/epic.51728

AWI Coastal Areas of Research

Fig. 1: The global areas Coastal Science covers in PACES (Graphic: AWI)

The Coastal Ecology Section (CES) specifically addresses questions in the Pelagic North Sea with an emphasis on intertidal regions, benthic habitat and geology/ particulate matter, Ecological systems at the Ice Edge in glacier and permafrost coastal regions.
Our science is both stakeholder and curiosity driven.

CE Section structure and delivery to PACES

Fig. 2: Section Structure showing section research emphases 1-3, networked topics (center triangle) and the collaboration with stakeholders in green. (Graphic: AWI)

Karen H. Wiltshire is Topic Speaker for Topic 2.

The current set up of the Coastal Ecology Section exists since 2015.

To maximize interactive networking three scientific topics are pivotal to the section (see Figure 2):

The structure and function of the Wadden Sea and comparable areas
The evolution and adaptation of organisms in changing intertidal environments
Habitat change and long term ecosystem shifts.

We currently have identified three major collaborative areas of expertise within the section:

“Bio-Geological habitat interactions”
“Environment and Evolution
“Coastal FESOM”.

The expertise from the scientific research feeds directly into the stakeholder oriented part of the section.

Mission

We investigate the structure and function of coastal systems in terms of changing environmental conditions. We provide scientific and stakeholder expertise on Wadden Sea, North Sea and polar coastal interfaces.

Collaboration (PACES)

We collaborate closely with AWI sections: Climate Dynamics, Paleo-Climate Dynamics, Periglacial Research, Marine Geochemistry, Chemical Ecology, Functional Ecology, Shelf Sea Systems Ecology. This includes such Networking as REKLIM, FESOM, LENA DELTA research, MERCES, Nordsee Büro, MOSES, Long Term Ocean Change, Plastics Research, Benthic Atlas of the North Sea etc.
The emphasis of all these collaborations is in Topic 2 Workpackages 1 though 4. Topic 4 is the PACES link for the stakeholder interactions and in terms of Climate and Polar Research in Topic 3.

Scientific output (papers) and PACES

The table underneath shows the distribution of papers related to the different Topics and Workpackages/Topics.
All the Stakeholder interactive scientific contributions to Topic 4 are given in the sections above.
Notably the classical scientific output (96 ISI papers) is mainly in Topic 2 relating to coastal research in PACES and that this output is evenly distributed between the AWI related Workpackages 1 through 4.
This reflects the structure of the section and shows clearly that we have optimized foci and little fragmentation. This is important as the section is small and just newly set up.

Year	Title	Journal	CoastalEcology Authors	Topic	Workpackage
2013	Parasites Affect Food Web Structure Primarily through Increased Diversity and Complexity	PLoS Biology	Karsten Reise	2	2
2013	Atlantic Water advection versus sea-ice advances in the eastern Fram Strait during the last 9 ka: Multiproxy evidence for a two-phase Holocene	Palaeoceanography	Christian Hass	1	3
2013	Parasites as prey in aquatic food webs: implications for predator infection and parasite transmission	Oikos	Karsten Reise	2	2
2013	Disturbance induced decoupling between host genetics and composition of the associated microbiome	BMC Microbiology	Mathias Wegner	2	3
2013	Relative contribution of reproductive investment, thermal stress and Vibrio infection to summer mortality phenomena in Pacific oysters	Aquaculture	Carolin Wendling, Mathias Wegner	2	3
2013	Globalization pressure and habitat change: Pacific rocky shore crabs invade armored shorelines in the Atlantic Wadden Sea	Aquatic Invasions	Dagmar Lackschewitz, Karsten Reise	2	1
2013	Persisting intertidal seagrass beds in the northern Wadden Sea since the 1930s	Journal of Sea Research	Tobias Dolch, Christian Buschbaum, Karsten Reise	2	1
2013	Parasites in the Wadden Sea food web	Journal of Sea Research	Carolin Wendling, Mathias Wegner	2	2
2013	Do burrowing callianassid shrimp control the lower boundary of tropical seagrass beds?	Journal of Experimental and Marine Biology	Dominik Kneer, Harald Asmus	2	2
2013	Phytoplankton community structure in the Lena Delta (Siberia, Russia) in relation to hydrography	Biogeosciences	Karen Wiltshire	2	box
2013	Sedimentological and Rheological Properties of the Water-Solid Bed Interface in the Weser and Ems Estuaries, North Sea, Germany: Implications for Fluid Mud Classification	Journal of Coastal Research	Svenja Papenmeier	2	4
2013	Contribution to a bio-optical model for remote sensing of Lena River water	Biogeosciences	Karen Wiltshire	2	box
2013	Feeding interactions between the introduced ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi and juvenile herring Clupea harengus in the Wadden Sea	Biological Invasions	Florian Kellnreiter, Moritz Pockberger, Harald Asmus, Ragnhild Asmus	2	2
2013	Large variation in mitochondrial DNA of sexual and parthenogenetic Dahlica triquetrella (Lepidoptera: Psychidae) shows multiple origins of parthenogenesis	BMC Evolutionary Biology	Lisa Shama	2	3
2013	The mean function provides robustness to linear inverse modelling flow estimation in food webs: A comparison of functions derived from statistics and ecological theories	Ecological Modelling	Ragnhild Asmus, Harald Asmus	2	2
2013	Large scale architecture of a stacked Holocene spit - the stratigraphy of northern Sylt (southern North Sea)	Zeitschrift der deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften	Christian Hass	2	4
2013	Stable coexistence in a Lotka-Volterra model with heterogeneous resources and intraguild predation	Physical Review E	Karen Wiltshire	2	2
2014	Transgenerational plasticity in marine sticklebacks: maternal effects mediate impacts of a warming ocean	Functional Ecology	Lisa Shama, Mathias Wegner	2	3
2014	Persistence, Seasonal Dynamics and Pathogenic Potential of Vibrio Communities from Pacific Oyster Hemolymph	PLoS One	Carolin Wendling, Mathias Wegner	2	2
2014	Nonlinear effects of temperature on body form and developmental canalization in the threespine stickleback	Journal of Evolutionary Biology	Lisa Shama, Mathias Wegner	2	3
2014	Within- and transgenerational effects of ocean acidification on life history of marine three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)	Marine Biology	Franziska Schade, Mathias Wegner	2	3
2014	Impact of thermal stress on evolutionary trajectories of pathogen resistance in three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)	BMC Evolutionary Biology	Franziska Schade, Lisa Shama, Mathias Wegner	2	3
2014	Male mate choice relies on major histocompatibility complex class I in a sex-role-reversed pipefish	Journal of Evolutionary Biology	Mathias Wegner	2	3
2014	Distribution and characteristics of marine habitats in a subpolar bay based on hydroacoustics and bed shear stress estimates-Potter Cove, King George Island, Antarctica	Geo-Marine Letters	Anne Wölfl, Christian Hass	2	4
2014	Distribution of benthic marine invertebrates at northern latitudes - An evaluation applying multi-algorithm species distribution models	Journal of Sea Research	Dario Fiorentino	2	4
2014	Succession in intertidal mussel bed assemblages on different shores: species mobility matters	Marine Ecology Progress Series	Christian Buschbaum	2	2
2014	Assessment of North Sea phytoplankton via molecular sensing: a method evaluation	Journal of Plankton Research	Karen Wiltshire	2	1
2014	Composition and distribution of selected munnopsid genera (Crustacea, Isopoda, Asellota) in Icelandic waters	Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Studies	Dario Fiorentino	2	2
2014	Transitions in sandflat biota since the 1930s: effects of sea-level rise, eutrophication and biological globalization in the tidal bay Konigshafen, northern Wadden Sea	Helgoland Marine Research	Juliane Schumacher, Tobias Dolch, Karsten Reise	2	1
2014	Coping with persistent environmental problems: systemic delays in reducing eutrophication of the Baltic Sea	Ecology and Society	Tobias Doch	2	1
2014	Predicting spatial kelp abundance in shallow coastal waters using the acoustic ground discrimination system RoxAnn	Estuarine Coastal & Shelf Science	Finn Mielck, Christian Hass, Anne Wölfl	2	4
2014	Facilitation of intraguild prey by its intraguild predator in a three-species Lotka-Volterra model	Theoretical Population Biology	Karen Wiltshire	2	2
2014	Unravelling interactions between salt marsh evolution and sedimentary processes in the Wadden Sea (southeastern North Sea)	Progress in Physical Geography	Tobias Dolch, Karsten Reise	2	1
2014	Performance of absorption coefficient measurements for the in situ determination of chlorophyll-a and total suspended matter	Journal of Experimental and Marine Biology	Karen Wiltshire	2	1
2014	High-Resolution Hydroacoustic Seafloor Classification of Sandy Environments in the German Wadden Sea	Journal of Coastal Research	Finn Mielck, Christian Hass	2	4
2014	Temperature effects on aggregation during a spring diatom bloom	Limnology & Oceanography	Karen Wiltshire	2	2
2014	A survey of ciliates at the long-term sampling station "Helgoland Roads", North Sea	Helgoland Marine Research	Karen Wiltshire	2	1
2014	An abundant small sized fish as keystone species? The effect of Pomatoschistus microps on food webs and its trophic role in two intertidal benthic communities: A modeling approach	Journal of Sea Research	Florian Kellnreiter, Moritz Pockberger, Harald Asmus, Ragnhild Asmus	2	2
2014	Over time and space changing characteristics of estuarine suspended particles in the German Weser and Elbe estuaries	Journal of Sea Research	Svenja Papenmeier	2	1
2014	Kite aerial photography (KAP) as a tool for field teaching	Journal of Geography Higher Education	Lasse Sander	4
2014	The seaward limit of wave effects on coastal macrobenthos	Helgoland Marine Research	Werner Armonies, Monika Hellwig-Armonies, Chrisitan Buschbaum	2	1
2014	Microbial predators promote their competitors: commensalism within an intra-guild predation system in microzooplankton	Ecosphere	Karen Wiltshire	2	2
2014	Characterization of a humic acid extracted from marine sediment and its influence on the growth of marine diatoms	Journal of the Marine Biological Society of the UK	Karen Wiltshire	2	4
2014	Influence of Triangular Club-Rush Schoenoplectus triqueter on the Macrobenthic Community of the Hangzhou Bay, China	Wetlands	Hung Liu, Harald Asmus, Ragnhild Asmus	2	2
2015	Grandparental effects in marine sticklebacks: transgenerational plasticity across multiple generations	Journal of Evolutionary Biology	Lisa Shama, Mathias Wegner	2	3
2015	Hemolymph microbiome of Pacific oysters in response to temperature, temperature stress and infection	ISME Journal	Ana Lokmer, Mathias Wegner	2	3
2015	Adaptation to enemy shifts: rapid resistance evolution to local Vibrio spp. in invasive Pacific oysters	Proceedings Royal Society B	Carolin Wendling, Mathias Wegner	2	2
2015	Trophic networks: How do theories link ecosystem structure and functioning to stability properties? A review	Ecological Indicators	Ragnhild Asmus, Harald Asmus	2	2
2015	The emergence of Vibrio pathogens in Europe: ecology, evolution, and pathogenesis (Paris, 11-12th March 2015)	Frontiers in Microbiology	Mathias Wegner	2	2
2015	Castaways can't be choosers - Homogenization of rafting assemblages on floating seaweeds	Journal of Sea Research	Christian Buschbaum	2	2
2015	Impact of seawater carbonate chemistry on the calcification of marine bivalves	Biogeosciences	Mathias Wegner	2	3
2015	Time is an affliction: Why ecology cannot be as predictive as physics and why it needs time series	Journal of Sea Research	Karen Wiltshire	2	1
2015	Bet hedging in a warming ocean: predictability of maternal environment shapes offspring size variation in marine sticklebacks	Global Change Biology	Lisa Shama	2	3
2015	Analysis of phytoplankton distribution and community structure in the German Bight with respect to the different size classes	Journal of Sea Research	Karen Wiltshire	2	1
2015	Changes in Holocene relative sea-level and coastal morphology: A study of a raised beach ridge system on Sams phi, southwest Scandinavia	Holocene	Lasse Sander	2	4
2015	STRATIGRAPHY, EVOLUTION, AND CONTROLS OF A HOLOCENE TRANSGRESSIVE-REGRESSIVE BARRIER ISLAND UNDER CHANGING SEA LEVEL: DANISH NORTH SEA COAST	Sedimentary Research	Lasse Sander	2	4
2015	Control of phytoplankton in a shelf sea: Determination of the main drivers based on the Helgoland Roads Time Series	Journal of Sea Research	Karen Wiltshire	2	1
2015	Long-term change in the copepod community in the southern German Bight	Journal of Sea Research	Karen Wiltshire	2	1
2015	Diversity and seasonality of Pseudo-nitzschia (Peragallo) at two North Sea time-series monitoring sites	Helgoland Marine Research	Karen Wiltshire	2	1
2015	Sedimentary indications and absolute chronology of Holocene relative sea-level changes retrieved from coastal lagoon deposits on Samso, Denmark	Boreas	Lasse Sander	2	4
2015	Interannual variability of sorted bedforms in the coastal German Bight (SE North Sea)	Continental Shelf Research	Finn Mielck, Christian Hass	2	4
2015	Special section on The changing North Sea: Taking stock	Journal of Sea Research	Karen Wiltshire	2	1
2015	Structural composition and temporal variation of the ciliate community in relation to environmental factors at Helgoland Roads, North Sea	Journal of Sea Research	Karen Wiltshire	2	1
2015	Impact of wind and tides on the Lena River freshwater plume dynamics in the summer season	Ocean Dynamics	Karen Wiltshire	2	box
2015	Factors influencing the grazing response of the marine oligotrichous ciliate Strombidium cf. sulcatum	Aquatic Microbial Ecology	Karen Wiltshire	2	2
2015	EFFECTS OF WARMING AND ACIDIFICATION ON A BENTHIC COMMUNITY IN THE BALTIC SEA - KIEL BENTHOCOSMS	European Journal of Phycology	Andreas Pansch, Harald Asmus, Ragnhild Asmus	2	5
2015	Elevation Trends in Wide Beach-Ridge Systems Retrieved from Landsat Images and the SRTM Digital Surface Model	Journal of Coastal Research	Lasse Sander	2	4
2016	Global impacts of the 1980s regime shift	Global Change Biology	Karen Wiltshire	2	1
2016	Temporal shift in biomass and production of macrozoobenthos in the macroalgal belt at Hansneset, Kongsfjorden, after 15 years	Polar Biology	Martin Paar, Ragnhild Asmus, Harald Asmus	1
2016	Projecting effects of climate change on marine systems: is the mean all that matters?	Proceedings Royal Society B	Karen Wiltshire	3
2016	Zooplankton eat what they need: copepod selective feeding and potential consequences for marine systems	Oikos	Karen Wiltshire	2	2
2016	Biological invasions and host-parasite coevolution: different coevolutionary trajectories along separate parasite invasion fronts	Zoology	Marieke Feis, Christian Buschbaum, Mathias Wegner	2	2
2016	Do bioturbation and consumption affect coastal Arctic marine soft-bottom communities?	Polar Biology	Sina Petrowsky, Christian Buschbaum	2	2
2016	Coastal lagoons and beach ridges as complementary sedimentary archives for the reconstruction of Holocene relative sea-level changes	Terra Nova	Lasse Sander	2	4
2016	Transgenerational effects persist down the maternal line in marine sticklebacks: gene expression matches physiology in a warming ocean	Evolutionary Applications	Lisa Shama, Ana Lokmer, Mathias Wegner	2	3
2016	The role of tissue-specific microbiota in initial establishment success of Pacific oysters	Environmental Microbiology	Ana Lokmer, Mathias Wegner	2	3
2016	Disturbance effects of kelp thalli on structure and diversity of a coastal Arctic marine soft-bottom assemblage	Polar Biology	Sina Petrowsky, Christian Buschbaum	2	4
2016	Coastal landforms and the Holocene evolution of the Island of Samso, Denmark	Journal of Maps	Lasse Sander	2	4
2016	Parasites and marine invasions: Ecological and evolutionary perspectives	Journal of Sea Research	Marieke Feis, Christian Buschbaum, Mathias Wegner	2	3
2016	Seasonal variation in parasite infection patterns of marine fish species from the Northern Wadden Sea in relation to interannual temperature fluctuations	Journal of Sea Research	Franziska Schade, Mathias Wegner	2	2
2016	Oysters and Vibrios as a Model for Disease Dynamics in Wild Animals	Trends in Microbiology	Mathias Wegner	2	2
2016	Recurring patterns in bacterioplankton dynamics during coastal spring algae blooms	eLife	Karen Wiltshire	2	1
2016	Short-Term Dynamics of North Sea Bacterioplankton-Dissolved Organic Matter Coherence on Molecular Level	Frontiers in Microbiology	Karen Wiltshire	2	1
2016	Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Pacific Oyster Hemolymph Microbiota across Multiple Scales	Frontiers in Microbiology	Ana Lokmer, Dario Fiorentino, Mathias Wegner	2	1
2016	Ecology and evolution of marine parasites and diseases: International NIOZ-AWI symposium, 10-14 March 2014, Texel, The Netherlands	Journal of Sea Research	Mathias Wegner	2	3
2016	Deeply hidden inside introduced biogenic structures - Pacific oyster reefs reduce detrimental barnacle overgrowth on native blue mussels	Journal of Sea Research	Christian Buschbaum, Annika Cornelius	2	2
2016	Submarine landforms related to glacier retreat in a shallow Antarctic fjord	Antarctic Science	Anne Wölfl, Nina Wittenberg, Christian Hass	2	4
2016	Glacial melting: an overlooked threat to Antarctic krill	Scientific Reports	Anne Wölfl, Christian Hass	2	2
2016	Do drivers of biodiversity change differ in importance across marine and terrestrial systems - Or is it just different research communities' perspectives?	Science of the Total Environment	Ragnhild Asmus, Harald Asmus	2	1
2016	Seasonal Variation of Harbor Seal's Diet from the Wadden Sea in Relation to Prey Availability	PLoS One	Camille de la Vega, Harald Asmus, Ragnhild Asmus	2	2
2016	Tidal benthic mesocosms simulating future climate change scenarios in the field of marine ecology	L&O: Methods	Andreas Pansch, Harald Asmus, Ragnhild Asmus	2	5
2016	Pollen limitation may be a common Allee effect in marine hydrophilous plants: implications for decline and recovery in seagrasses	Oecologia	Ragnhild Asmus, Petra Kadel	2	5
2016	Consensus forecasting of intertidal seagrass habitat in the Wadden Sea	Journal of Applied Ecology	Tobias Doch	4
2016	Date-prints on stranded macroplastics: Inferring the timing and extent of overwash deposition on the Skallingen peninsula, Denmark	Marine Pollution Bulletin	Lasse Sander	2	4