TY - T1 - Changes in macrofaunal biological traits across estuarine gradients : implications for the coastal nutrient filter SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/317799 T3 - A1 - Villnäs, Anna; Janas, Urzsula; Josefson, Alf B.; Kendzierska, Halina; Nygård, Henrik; Norkko, Joanna; Norkko, Alf A2 - PB - Y1 - 2019 LA - eng AB - Benthic macrofaunal communities have a profound impact on organic matter turnover and nutrient cycling in marine sediments. Their activities are of particular importance in the coastal filter, where nutrients and organic matter from land are transformed and/or retained before reaching the open sea. The benthic fauna modify the coastal filter directly (through consumption, respiration, excretion and biomass production) and indirectly (through bioturbation). It is hard to experimentally quantify f... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - BENTHIC MACROFAUNA; BIOTURBATION; Baltic Sea; Benthic communities; Biological traits; Coastal filter; DANISH ESTUARIES; FLUXES; FUNCTIONAL-GROUP APPROACH; IMPACT; MACOMA-BALTHICA COMMUNITY; NEREIS-DIVERSICOLOR; Nutrient cycling; SEA; SEDIMENT; 1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology N1 - PP - ER -