PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS
CoastClim publishes papers that explore the links between marine coastal biodiversity, carbon sequestration and atmospheric feedbacks in our changing world. The publications thus span the topics of carbon and nutrient cycling in coastal habitats, benthic and pelagic biodiversity, greenhouse gas dynamics and aerosol formation. Please find links to the peer-reviewed articles, as well as, policy briefs and fact sheets below.
2025
Functional traits are moderate predictors of above- and below-ground biomass in multispecies seagrass habitats
Camilla Gustafsson, Renae Hovey, Ylva Olsen, John Statton, Gary Kendrick
Functional Ecology (2025)
Marine heatwaves amplify benthic community metabolism and solute flux in a seafloor heating experiment
Norman Göbeler, Laura Kauppi, Alf Norkko, Joanna Norkko
Functional Ecology (2025)
Seasonal variation in the role of benthic macrofauna communities for ecosystem functioning in shallow coastal soft-sediment habitats
Johanna Gammal, Marie Järnström, Joanna Norkko, Erik Bonsdorff, Alf Norkko
Estuaries and Coasts 48: 62 (2025)
The role of lag phases between real-term marine heatwaves in the trait responses of two macrophyte species
Lucy G Gillis, Salvador Román, Camilla Gustafsson, Laura Kauppi, Carmen B de los Santos, Zulema Varela, Inés G Viana
Marine Environmental Research 204: 106894 (2025)
2024
Phytoplankton community composition as a driver of annual autochthonous organic carbon dynamics in the northern coastal Baltic Sea
Catharina Uth, Eero Asmala, Aleksandra Lewandowska
Marine Ecology Progress Series (2024)
Ebullition dominates methane emissions in stratified coastal waters
Martijn Hermans, Christian Stranne, Elias Broman, Alexander Sokolov, Florian Roth, Francisco Nascimento, Carl-Magnus Mörth, Sophie ten Hietbrink, Xiaole Sun, Erik Gustafsson, Bo Gustafsson, Alf Norkko, Tom Jilbert, Christoph Humborg
Science of the Total Environment (2024)
Projected loss of brown macroalgae and seagrasses with global environmental change
Federica Manca, Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi, Corey Bradshaw, Mar Cabeza, Camilla Gustafsson, Alf Norkko, Tomas Roslin, David Thomas, Lydia White, Giovanni Strona
Nature Communications (2024)
Eutrophication and deoxygenation drive high methane emissions from a brackish coastal system
Olga Żygadłowska, Florian Roth, Niels van Helmond, Wytze Lenstra, Jessica Venetz, Nicky Dotsios, Thomas Röckmann, Annelies Veraart, Christian Stranne, Christoph Humborg, Mike Jetten, Caroline Slomp
Environmental Science & Technology (2024)
Warming drives phenological changes in coastal zooplankton
Louise Forsblom, Tjardo Stoffers, Andreas Lindén, Maiju Lehtiniemi, Jonna Engström-Öst
Marine Biology (2024)
Biotic interactions between benthic infauna and aerobic methanotrophs mediate methane fluxes from coastal sediments
Elias Broman, Markus Olsson, Adele Maciute, Daniel Donald, Christoph Humborg, Alf Norkko, Tom Jilbert, Stefano Bonaglia, Francisco Nascimento
The ISME Journal (2024)
Methane dynamics in the Baltic Sea: investigating concentration, flux and isotopic composition patterns using the coupled physical-biogeochemical model BALTSEM-CH4 v1.0
Erik Gustafsson, Bo Gustafsson, Martijn Hermans, Christoph Humborg, Christian Stranne
Geoscientific Model Development (2024)
Seasonality strongly affects short-term C-storage in coastal macrophyte communities
Roel Lammerant, Eva Rohlfer, Alf Norkko, Camilla Gustafsson
Limnology & Oceanography (2024)
Salty, brackish, or fresh – saltiness matters for aquatic species
Leena Virta, Alf Norkko, Anna Villnäs
Frontiers for Young Minds (2024)
Declining salinity and increasing temperature reduce the diversity and resilience of benthic diatoms
Leena Virta & Per Hedberg
Environmental Microbiology (2024)
Linking resource quality and biodiversity to benthic ecosystem functions across a land-to-sea gradient
Saara Mäkelin, Aleksandra Lewandowska, Iván Rodil, Agnes Karlson, Christoph Humborg, Anna Villnäs
Ecosystems (2024)
A functional perspective on the factors underpinning biomass-bound carbon stocks in coastal macrophyte communities
Roel Lammerant, Alf Norkko, Camilla Gustafsson
Marine Environmental Research 193: 106289 (2024)
2023
HOTFLOOR: A benthic chamber system to simulate warming of the seafloor
Norman Göbeler, Laura Kauppi, Robin Gottberg, Göran Lundberg, Alf Norkko, Joanna Norkko
Limnology & Oceanography Methods (2023)
The development of fish stocks and fisheries in the Baltic Sea since the last glaciation
Henrik Svedäng
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science (2023)
Flammable ice of profit and doom
Brett F. Thornton & Christian Stranne
Nature Chemistry 15: 294-294 (2023)
Changes in macrofauna bioturbation during repeated heatwaves mediate changes in biogeochemical cycling of nutrients
Laura Kauppi, Norman Göbeler, Joanna Norkko, Alf Norkko, Alicia Romero-Ramirez, Guillaume Bernard
Frontiers in Marine Science 9: 1-13 (2023)
Fucoid brown algae inject fucoidan carbon into the ocean
Hagen Buck-Wiese, Mona A. Andeskog, Nguyen P. Nguyen, Margot Bligh, Eero Asmala, Silvia Vidal-Melgosa, Manuel Liebeke, Camilla Gustafsson, Jan-Hendrik Hehemann
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120: 1-8 (2023)
Methane emissions offset atmospheric carbon dioxide uptake in coastal macroalgae, mixed vegetation and sediment ecosystems
Florian Roth, Elias Broman, Xiaole Sun, Stefano Bonaglia, Francisco Nasciamento, John Prytherch, Volker Brüchert, Maysoon Lundevall Zara, Märta Brunberg, Marc C. Geibel, Christoph Humborg, Alf Norkko
Nature Communications 14:1-11 (2023)
Policy Brief
Reducing eutrophication crucial to prevent coastal methane emissions
Erik Gustafsson & Christoph Humborg
Opinion Piece
Time to highlight the ocean’s role for climate mitigation
Christoph Humborg, Alf Norkko, Gustaf Hugelius
2022
An evaluation of new particle formation events in Helsinki during a Baltic Sea cyanobacterial summer bloom
Roseline C. Thakur, Lubna Dada, Lisa J. Beck, Lauriane L. J. Quéléver, Tommy Chan, Marjan Marbouti, Xu-Cheng He, Carlton Xavier, Juha Sulo, Janne Lampilahti, Markus Lampimäki, Yee Jun Tham, Nina Sarnela, Katrianne Lehtipalo, Alf Norkko, Markku Kulmala, Mikko Sipilä, Tuija Jokinen
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 22: 6365-6391 (2022)
Ninety years of coastal monitoring reveals baseline and extreme ocean temperatures are increasing off the Finnish coast
Norman Goebeler, Alf Norkko, Joanna Norkko
Communications Earth & Environment 3: 1-11 (2022)
High spatiotemporal variability of methane concentrations challenges estimates of emissions across vegetated coastal ecosystems
Florian Roth, Xiaole Sun, Marc C. Geibel John Prytherch, Volker Brüchert, Stefano Bonaglia, Elias Broman, Francisco Nasciamento, Alf Norkko, Christoph Humborg
Global Change Biology 28: 4308-4322 (2022)
Anaerobic oxidation has a minor effect on mitigating seafloor methane emissions from gas hydrate dissociation
Christian Stranne, Matt O’Regan, Wei-Li Hong, Volker Brüchert, Marcelo Ketzer, Brett F. Thornton, Martin Jakobsson
Communications Earth & Environment 3: 1-10 (2022)
2021
Policy Brief
Healthy coastal ecosystems are crucial to mitigate climate change
Florian Roth & Camilla Gustafsson
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