warming by absorbing most of the excess heat in the climate system and a large fraction of the anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions. However, over the past years the Southern Ocean has experienced drastic

and temperate coastal ecosystems with a strong interest in the effects of climate change, local anthropogenic impacts and natural challenges on the shallow water macro-zoobenthos and fish communities. We

been focusing on plastic pollution in the oceans. She has published the reference book 'Marine Anthropogenic Litter' and runs the online portal LITTERBASE to make research data on plastic pollution and

Approaches Towards population Enhancement Find out more OMAP Project: Oysters and mussels under anthropogenic pressure Find out more CLIMAREST Project: Innovative solutions for marine restoration. Find out [...] environmental research at the AWI Find out more CREATE Project: Concepts for reducing the impact of anthropogenic pressures Find out more

organischer Kohlenstoff im Sediment gespeichert werden kann (Keil 2017; Legge et al. 2020). Weitere anthropogene Einflüsse, wie z. B. Baumaßnahmen, wirken als zusätzliche Stressoren auf das Blue­Carbon­Potenzial [...] Environmental Research Letters 11(11): e113001. DOI: 10.1088/1748­9326/11/11/113001 Keil R. (2017): Anthropogenic forcing of carbonate and organic carbon preservation in marine sediments. Annual Review of Marine [...] Nolte S. (2021): Livestock grazing reduces sediment deposition and accretion rates on a highly anthropogenically altered marsh island in the Wadden Sea. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 251: e107191. DOI:

g., temperature, oxygen conditions and current speed. All factors are subject to natural and anthropogenic variability, e.g., altering flooding frequency and changing salinity zones due to sea level rise [...] preservation and eventually long-term sequestration (Mcleod et al., 2011). However, the influence of anthropogenic drainage systems by, e.g., the use of artificial ditches in salt marshes of the Wadden Sea, likely [...] the Lower Saxony Wadden Sea National Park: a chance to enhance the blue carbon potential of anthropogenically modified salt marshes 5.1. Policy background Most salt marshes in Germany are part of the Wadden

impacts and to better understand the structure and function of an ecosystem. Research AnthroTOP Anthropogenic uses in the North Sea: Impacts on marine top predators Human activities have various, mostly negative [...] when the ecosystem stress limit will be reached. Thus, understanding the cumulative effects of anthropogenic uses and estimates of the consequences of further expansions of uses is crucial. In AnthroTop [...] length determined. Over the years, we will be able to make statements about climate-related or anthropogenic changes, such as the direct and indirect influence of fishing in the Wadden Sea on the use of

fulfil a key role in the control of global environmental processes; they are also subject to anthropogenic use. Though the strains on them are especially apparent in coastal regions and shelf seas, where

global climate and are among the fastest warming regions worldwide. It is unclear to what extent anthropogenic environmental changes will impact the structure and functioning of the polar marine ecosystem

Quéric, N.-V., Schewe, I., Wlodarska-Kowalczuk, M., Klages, M. (2016). Natural variability or anthropogenically-induced variation? Insights from 15 years of multidisciplinary observations at the arctic marine