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EDITORIAL article

Front. Mar. Sci.
Sec. Marine Ecosystem Ecology
Volume 11 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fmars.2024.1470915
This article is part of the Research Topic The Importance of Understanding Benthic Ecosystem Functioning View all 7 articles

Editorial: The Importance of Understanding Benthic Ecosystem Functioning

Provisionally accepted
Irini Tsikopoulou Irini Tsikopoulou 1,2*Federica Nasi Federica Nasi 3Julie Bremner Julie Bremner 4
  • 1 Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, Hellenic Center for Marine Research, Heraklion, Greece
  • 2 Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), Anavyssos, Attiki, Greece
  • 3 National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (Italy), Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
  • 4 Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), Lowestoft, United Kingdom

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    Keywords: functional diversity, biological traits, Ecosystem functioning, ecosystem services, Human impacts

    Received: 26 Jul 2024; Accepted: 12 Aug 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Tsikopoulou, Nasi and Bremner. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Irini Tsikopoulou, Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, Hellenic Center for Marine Research, Heraklion, Greece

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