Macrophytes in estuarine gradients: Flow through flexible vegetation

Aquatic plants –or macrophytes- are an important part of coastal, estuarine and freshwater ecosystems worldwide, both from an ecological and an engineering viewpoint. Their meadows provide a wide range of ecosystem services: forming a physical protection of the shoreline, enhancing water quality and harbouring many other organisms. Unfortunately...

Atlas of near-surface Total Suspended Matter concentrations in the Dutch coastal zone of the North Sea

Suspended matter in the water column governs the under water light climate and is thus an important factor for life in the sea. Next to nutrients, light is essential for the growth of phytoplankton and in this way for the food chain in the sea. Suspended matter concentrations are highly variable in time and space. Thus it is very hard to assess...