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  1. Detrimental impacts of climate change may be exacerbated by density‐dependent population regulation in blue mussels

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, November 2020, Wiley

    Professor Alf Norkko

  2. Diversity and distribution across a large environmental and spatial gradient: Evaluating the taxonomic and functional turnover, transitions and environmental drivers of benthic diatom communities

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, September 2020, Wiley

    Professor Alf Norkko

  3. Metabolism of a subtidal rocky mussel reef in a high-temperate setting: pathways of organic C flow

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, July 2020, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Alf Norkko

  4. Low Abundance of Methanotrophs in Sediments of Shallow Boreal Coastal Zones With High Water Methane Concentrations

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, July 2020, Frontiers

    Professor Alf Norkko

  5. Letter to editor regarding Kotta et al. 2020: Cleaning up seas using blue growth initiatives: Mussel farming for eutrophication control in the Baltic Sea

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, July 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Alf Norkko

  6. Understanding Environmental Changes in Temperate Coastal Seas: Linking Models of Benthic Fauna to Carbon and Nutrient Fluxes

    Article • Frontiers in Marine Science, June 2020, Frontiers

    Professor Alf Norkko

  7. Seasonal Variability in Benthic–Pelagic Coupling: Quantifying Organic Matter Inputs to the Seafloor and Benthic Macrofauna Using a Multi-Marker Approach

    Article • Frontiers in Marine Science, June 2020, Frontiers

    Professor Alf Norkko

  8. The Fight to Capture Light: Functional Diversity Is Related to Aquatic Plant Community Productivity Likely by Enhancing Light Capture

    Article • Frontiers in Marine Science, March 2020, Frontiers

    Professor Alf Norkko

  9. Temporal Variation in Resuspension Potential and Associated Nutrient Dynamics in Shallow Coastal Environments

    Article • Estuaries and Coasts, March 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alf Norkko

  10. Stable Seasonal and Annual Alpha Diversity of Benthic Diatom Communities Despite Changing Community Composition

    Article • Frontiers in Marine Science, February 2020, Frontiers

    Professor Alf Norkko

  11. The meagre future of benthic fauna in a coastal sea—Benthic responses to recovery from eutrophication in a changing climate

    Article • Global Change Biology, February 2020, Wiley

    Professor Alf Norkko

  12. Potential links between Baltic Sea submarine terraces and groundwater seeping

    Article • Earth Surface Dynamics, January 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Alf Norkko

  13. Provision of aquatic ecosystem services as a consequence of societal changes: The case of the Baltic Sea

    Article • Population Ecology, December 2019, Wiley

    Professor Alf Norkko

  14. Factors regulating the coastal nutrient filter in the Baltic Sea

    Article • AMBIO, November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alf Norkko

  15. Increasing oxygen deficiency changes rare and moderately abundant bacterial communities in coastal soft sediments

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alf Norkko

  16. Ecosystem functioning along gradients of increasing hypoxia and changing soft-sediment community types

    Article • Journal of Sea Research, November 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Alf Norkko

  17. Quantifying bioturbation across coastal seascapes: Habitat characteristics modify effects of macrofaunal communities

    Article • Journal of Sea Research, October 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Alf Norkko

  18. Identifying areas prone to coastal hypoxia – the role of topography

    Article • Biogeosciences, August 2019, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Alf Norkko

  19. Estimating Respiration Rates and Secondary Production of Macrobenthic Communities Across Coastal Habitats with Contrasting Structural Biodiversity

    Article • Ecosystems, August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alf Norkko

  20. High Emissions of Carbon Dioxide and Methane From the Coastal Baltic Sea at the End of a Summer Heat Wave

    Article • Frontiers in Marine Science, August 2019, Frontiers

    Professor Alf Norkko

  21. Benthic-pelagic coupling in coastal seas – Modelling macrofaunal biomass and carbon processing in response to organic matter supply

    Article • Journal of Marine Systems, August 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Alf Norkko

  22. Context-dependent community facilitation in seagrass meadows along a hydrodynamic stress gradient

    Article • Journal of Sea Research, August 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Alf Norkko

  23. Role of Eelgrass in the Coastal Filter of Contrasting Baltic Sea Environments

    Article • Estuaries and Coasts, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alf Norkko

  24. Changes in macrofaunal biological traits across estuarine gradients: implications for the coastal nutrient filter

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, July 2019, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Alf Norkko

  25. The diversity of benthic diatoms affects ecosystem productivity in heterogeneous coastal environments

    Article • Ecology, July 2019, Wiley

    Professor Alf Norkko

  26. Population Dynamics at the Range Margin: Implications of Climate Change on Sublittoral Blue Mussels (Mytilus trossulus)

    Article • Frontiers in Marine Science, June 2019, Frontiers

    Professor Alf Norkko

  27. Towards a sampling design for characterizing habitat-specific benthic biodiversity related to oxygen flux dynamics using Aquatic Eddy Covariance

    Article • PLoS ONE, February 2019, PLOS

    Professor Alf Norkko

  28. Multi-level responses of Macoma balthica to recurring hypoxic disturbance

    Article • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, January 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Alf Norkko

  29. Seasonal metabolism and carbon export potential of a key coastal habitat: The perennial canopy-forming macroalga Fucus vesiculosus

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography, October 2018, Wiley

    Professor Alf Norkko

  30. Assessing the efficiencies and challenges for nutrient uptake by aquatic plants

    Article • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, October 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Alf Norkko

  31. Linking Ross Sea Coastal Benthic Communities to Environmental Conditions: Documenting Baselines in a Spatially Variable and Changing World

    Article • Frontiers in Marine Science, July 2018, Frontiers

    Professor Alf Norkko

  32. Quantifying the importance of functional traits for primary production in aquatic plant communities

    Article • Journal of Ecology, June 2018, Wiley

    Professor Alf Norkko

  33. Trophic overlap between expanding and contracting fish predators in a range margin undergoing change

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alf Norkko

  34. Increasing densities of an invasive polychaete enhance bioturbation with variable effects on solute fluxes

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alf Norkko

  35. Environmental Context Mediates Biodiversity–Ecosystem Functioning Relationships in Coastal Soft-sediment Habitats

    Article • Ecosystems, May 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alf Norkko

  36. Global Carbon Cycling on a Heterogeneous Seafloor

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, February 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Alf Norkko

  37. Seasonal population dynamics of the invasive polychaete genus Marenzelleria spp. in contrasting soft-sediment habitats

    Article • Journal of Sea Research, January 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Alf Norkko

  38. Template for using biological trait groupings when exploring large-scale variation in seafloor multifunctionality

    Article • Ecological Applications, December 2017, Wiley

    Professor Alf Norkko

  39. Sediment properties, biota, and local habitat structure explain variation in the erodibility of coastal sediments

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography, July 2017, Wiley

    Mari Joensuu, Professor Alf Norkko

  40. Seasonal variability in ecosystem functions: quantifying the contribution of invasive species to nutrient cycling in coastal ecosystems

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, May 2017, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Alf Norkko

  41. Extraordinarily rapid speciation in a marine fish

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2017, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Chair Professor Juha Merilä, Professor Alf Norkko

  42. The importance of benthic-pelagic coupling for marine ecosystem functioning in a changing world

    Article • Global Change Biology, March 2017, Wiley

    Dr. Stefano Bonaglia, Professor Alf Norkko

  43. The role of dispersal mode and habitat specialization for metacommunity structure of shallow beach invertebrates

    Article • PLoS ONE, February 2017, PLOS

    Professor Alf Norkko

  44. Coastal Hypoxia and the Importance of Benthic Macrofauna Communities for Ecosystem Functioning

    Article • Estuaries and Coasts, August 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alf Norkko

  45. Not all plants are the same: Exploring metabolism and nitrogen fluxes in a benthic community composed of different aquatic plant species

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography, June 2016, Wiley

    Professor Alf Norkko

  46. Juvenile flatfish in the northern Baltic Sea — long-term decline and potential links to habitat characteristics

    Article • Journal of Sea Research, January 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Alf Norkko

  47. Evaluating the performance of benthic multi-metric indices across broad-scale environmental gradients

    Article • Ecological Indicators, November 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Alf Norkko

  48. Decline of flounder (Platichthys flesus (L.)) at the margin of the species' distribution range

    Article • Journal of Sea Research, November 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Alf Norkko

  49. Complex metacommunity structure for benthic invertebrates in a low‐diversity coastal system

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, October 2015, Wiley

    Professor Alf Norkko

  50. Long-term temporal and spatial trends in eutrophication status of the Baltic Sea

    Article • Biological Reviews, October 2015, Wiley

    Professor Alf Norkko

  51. Context-dependent consequences of Marenzelleria spp. (Spionidae: Polychaeta) invasion for nutrient cycling in the Northern Baltic Sea

    Article • Oceanologia, October 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Alf Norkko

  52. Seafloor Ecosystem Function Relationships: In Situ Patterns of Change Across Gradients of Increasing Hypoxic Stress

    Article • Ecosystems, August 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alf Norkko

  53. Growth and survival in a changing environment: Combined effects of moderate hypoxia and low pH on juvenile bivalve Macoma balthica

    Article • Journal of Sea Research, August 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Alf Norkko

  54. Does stability in local community composition depend on temporal variation in rates of dispersal and connectivity?

    Article • Journal of Sea Research, April 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Alf Norkko

  55. Large-scale species invasion into a low-diversity system: spatial and temporal distribution of the invasive polychaetes Marenzelleria spp. in the Baltic Sea

    Article • Biological Invasions, March 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alf Norkko

  56. Post-settlement dispersal: the neglected link in maintenance of soft-sediment biodiversity

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Alf Norkko

  57. Real world biodiversity–ecosystem functioning: a seafloor perspective

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, July 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Alf Norkko

  58. Hypoxia in the Baltic Sea: Biogeochemical Cycles, Benthic Fauna, and Management

    Article • AMBIO, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alf Norkko

  59. The role of recurrent disturbances for ecosystem multifunctionality

    Article • Ecology, October 2013, Wiley

    Professor Alf Norkko

  60. Size matters: implications of the loss of large individuals for ecosystem function

    Article • Scientific Reports, September 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alf Norkko

  61. Effects of Reduced pH on Macoma balthica Larvae from a System with Naturally Fluctuating pH-Dynamics

    Article • PLoS ONE, June 2013, PLOS

    Professor Alf Norkko

  62. Modelling macrofaunal biomass in relation to hypoxia and nutrient loading

    Article • Journal of Marine Systems, December 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Alf Norkko

  63. Intermittent bioirrigation and oxygen dynamics in permeable sediments: An experimental and modeling study of three tellinid bivalves

    Article • Journal of Marine Research, November 2012, Journal of Marine Research/Yale

    Professor Alf Norkko

  64. Consequences of Increasing Hypoxic Disturbance on Benthic Communities and Ecosystem Functioning

    Article • PLoS ONE, October 2012, PLOS

    Professor Alf Norkko

  65. Burial and decomposition of plant pigments in surface sediments of the Baltic Sea: role of oxygen and benthic fauna

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, May 2012, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Alf Norkko

  66. Indicators for Sea-floor Integrity under the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive

    Article • Ecological Indicators, January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Alf Norkko

  67. A welcome can of worms? Hypoxia mitigation by an invasive species

    Article • Global Change Biology, September 2011, Wiley

    Professor Alf Norkko

  68. Benthic diversity gradients and shifting baselines: implications for assessing environmental status

    Article • Ecological Applications, September 2011, Wiley

    Professor Alf Norkko

  69. Rates of post-larval bedload dispersal in a non-tidal soft-sediment system

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, October 2010, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Alf Norkko

  70. Conditional responses to increasing scales of disturbance, and potential implications for threshold dynamics in soft-sediment communities

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, August 2010, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Alf Norkko

  71. β-Diversity and Species Accumulation in Antarctic Coastal Benthos: Influence of Habitat, Distance and Productivity on Ecological Connectivity

    Article • PLoS ONE, July 2010, PLOS

    Professor Alf Norkko

  72. Getting the measure of eutrophication in the Baltic Sea: towards improved assessment principles and methods

    Article • Biogeochemistry, July 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alf Norkko

  73. Strategies of post-larval dispersal in non-tidal soft-sediment communities

    Article • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, March 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Alf Norkko

  74. Forecasting the limits of resilience: integrating empirical research with theory

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, June 2009, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Alf Norkko

  75. Hypoxia-Related Processes in the Baltic Sea

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, May 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Alf Norkko

  76. Modelled bioaccumulation of chemical warfare agents within the Baltic Sea food web

    Article • May 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Alf Norkko

  77. TROPHIC STRUCTURE OF COASTAL ANTARCTIC FOOD WEBS ASSOCIATED WITH CHANGES IN SEA ICE AND FOOD SUPPLY

    Article • Ecology, November 2007, Wiley

    Professor Alf Norkko

  78. Accounting for local scale variability in benthos: implications for future assessments of latitudinal trends in the coastal Ross Sea

    Article • Antarctic Science, November 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Alf Norkko

  79. Functional Role of Large Organisms in Intertidal Communities: Community Effects and Ecosystem Function

    Article • Ecosystems, September 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alf Norkko

  80. Predicting macrofaunal species distributions in estuarine gradients using logistic regression and classification systems

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, July 2006, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Alf Norkko

  81. Scale- and intensity-dependent disturbance determines the magnitude of opportunistic response

    Article • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, March 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Alf Norkko

  82. Indirect effects of Atrina zelandica on water column nitrogen and oxygen fluxes: The role of benthic macrofauna and microphytes

    Article • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, March 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Alf Norkko

  83. CONDITIONAL OUTCOMES OF FACILITATION BY A HABITAT‐MODIFYING SUBTIDAL BIVALVE

    Article • Ecology, January 2006, Wiley

    Professor Alf Norkko

  84. Detecting growth under environmental extremes: Spatial and temporal patterns in nucleic acid ratios in two Antarctic bivalves

    Article • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, December 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Alf Norkko

  85. Biology of the basket star Gorgonocephalus caputmedusae (L.)

    Article • Marine Biology, August 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alf Norkko

  86. Episodic disturbance events modify predator–prey interactions in soft sediments

    Article • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, August 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Alf Norkko

  87. Benthic nutrient fluxes along an estuarine gradient: influence of the pinnid bivalve Atrina zelandica in summer

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, January 2005, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Alf Norkko

  88. Muddy waters: elevating sediment input to coastal and estuarine habitats

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, August 2004, Wiley

    Professor Alf Norkko

  89. Muddy Waters: Elevating Sediment Input to Coastal and Estuarine Habitats

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, August 2004, Wiley

    Professor Alf Norkko

  90. Ecological role of Phyllophora antarctica drift accumulations in coastal soft-sediment communities of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

    Article • Polar Biology, May 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alf Norkko

  91. Habitat structure and the survival of juvenile scallops Pecten novaezelandiae: comparing predation in habitats with varying complexity

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, January 2004, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Alf Norkko

  92. Macroalgal photosynthesis near the southern global limit for growth; Cape Evans, Ross Sea, Antarctica

    Article • Polar Biology, December 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alf Norkko

  93. MACROBENTHIC RECOVERY PROCESSES FOLLOWING CATASTROPHIC SEDIMENTATION ON ESTUARINE SANDFLATS

    Article • Ecological Applications, October 2003, Wiley

    Professor Alf Norkko

  94. The role of waves in the colonisation of terrestrial sediments deposited in the marine environment

    Article • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, May 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Alf Norkko

  95. Terrestrial deposits on intertidal sandflats: sediment characteristics as indicators of habitat suitability for recolonising macrofauna

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, January 2003, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Alf Norkko

  96. Habitat change in estuaries: predicting broad-scale responses of intertidal macrofauna to sediment mud content

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, January 2003, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Alf Norkko

  97. Long-term Changes of a Brackish-water Eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) Community Indicate Effects of Coastal Eutrophication

    Article • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, November 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Alf Norkko

  98. Smothering of estuarine sandflats by terrigenous clay: the role of wind-wave disturbance and bioturbation in site-dependent macrofaunal recovery

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, January 2002, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Alf Norkko

  99. Integrating heterogeneity across spatial scales: interactions between Atrina zelandica and benthic macrofauna

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, January 2002, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Alf Norkko

  100. Influence of diet on dispersal of horse mussel Atrina zelandica biodeposits

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, January 2002, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Alf Norkko

  101. Determining effects of suspended sediment on condition of a suspension feeding bivalve (Atrina zelandica): results of a survey, a laboratory experiment and a field transplant experiment

    Article • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, January 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Alf Norkko

  102. Benthic-pelagic coupling and suspension-feeding bivalves: Linking site-specific sediment flux and biodeposition to benthic community structure

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography, November 2001, Wiley

    Professor Alf Norkko

  103. Local dispersal of juvenile bivalves: implications for sandflat ecology

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, January 2001, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Alf Norkko

  104. Fishing disturbance and marine biodiversity: role of habitat structure in simple soft-sediment systems

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, January 2001, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Alf Norkko

  105. Fishing disturbance and marine biodiversity: the role of habitat structure in simple soft-sediment systems

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, January 2001, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Alf Norkko

  106. Drifting algal mats as an alternative habitat for benthic invertebrates:

    Article • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, May 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Alf Norkko

  107. The impact of loose-lying algal mats and predation by the brown shrimp Crangon crangon (L.) on infaunal prey dispersal and survival

    Article • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, March 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Alf Norkko

  108. Role of Halicryptus spinulosus (Priapulida) in structuring meiofauna and settling macrofauna

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, January 1998, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Alf Norkko

  109. Role of Halicryptus spinulosus (Priapulida) in structuring meiofauna and settling macrofauna

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, January 1998, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Alf Norkko

  110. Coastal eutrophication: Causes, consequences and perspectives in the Archipelago areas of the northern Baltic Sea

    Article • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, January 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Alf Norkko

  111. Altered Benthic Prey-Availability Due to Episodic Oxygen Deficiency Caused by Drifting Algal Mats

    Article • Marine Ecology, March 1996, Wiley

    Professor Alf Norkko

  112. Rapid zoobenthic community responses to accumulations of drifting algae

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, January 1996, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Alf Norkko

  113. Population responses of coastal zoobenthos to stress induced by drifting algal mats

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, January 1996, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Alf Norkko

  114. Characterization of soft-bottom benthic habitats of the Åland Islands, northern Baltic Sea

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, January 1996, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Alf Norkko

  115. Structuring zoobenthos: the importance of predation, siphon cropping and physical disturbance

    Article • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, October 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Alf Norkko