Christian Mohn¹, Claudia Wienberg², Jürgen Titschack², Elda Miramontes³, Franziska U. Schwarzkopf⁴, Arne Biastoch⁴, Evert de Froe⁵, Veerle Huvenne⁶, Furu Mienis⁷, Covadonga Orejas⁸, Karline Soetaert⁹, Martin White¹⁰, Anna-Selma van der Kaaden¹¹, Dick van Oevelen⁹ and Dierk Hebbeln¹², (1)Aarhus University, Ecoscience, Aarhus C, Denmark, (2)MARUM - University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (3)University of Bremen, Faculty of Geosciences, Bremen, Germany, (4)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (5)Wageningen University and Research Center, Wageningen Marine Research, Wageningen, Netherlands, (6)National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, (7)Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Ocean Systems, Den Burg, Netherlands, (8)IEO-CSIC, Gijon, Spain, (9)Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems, Yerseke, Netherlands, (10)University of Galway, Earth and Life Sciences, Galway, Ireland, (11)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, (12)University of Bremen, MARUM﹣Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Bremen, Germany