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Christoffer Boström

Christoffer Boström

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
43
Citations
8100
World Ranking
5277
National Ranking
76

Overview

Christoffer Boström is affiliated with Åbo Akademi University in Finland and specializes in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research focuses primarily on marine and coastal ecosystems, with a particular emphasis on marine and coastal plant biology, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, and coastal and marine management.

Their work covers various subfields including Oceanography, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Nature and Landscape Conservation. Key topics in their research include marine and coastal plant biology, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, coastal and marine management, marine biology and ecology research, marine and fisheries research, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, and isotope analysis in ecology.

Christoffer Boström has contributed to several publication venues with multiple papers published in Frontiers in Marine Science, Suomen Luontopaneelin julkaisuja, Nature Communications, Marine Ecology Progress Series, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Some of the recent papers include:

  • Somatic genetic drift and multilevel selection in a clonal seagrass, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Mimicry of emergent traits amplifies coastal restoration success, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Facilitating foundation species: The potential for plant-bivalve interactions to improve habitat restoration success, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology
  • Seascape ecology: identifying research priorities for an emerging ocean sustainability science, 2021, Marine Ecology Progress Series
  • Major impacts and societal costs of seagrass loss on sediment carbon and nitrogen stocks, 2021, Ecosphere

Frequent co-authors of Christoffer Boström include:

  • Karine Gagnon
  • Johan Eklöf
  • Richard K. F. Unsworth
  • Tjisse van der Heide
  • Jonas Thormar

In addition to articles, Boström has contributed to book publications. One such publication is Blue Carbon - climate adaptation, CO2 uptake and sequestration of carbon in Nordic blue forests - Results from the Nordic Blue Carbon Project, published in 2021 by TemaNord.

Best Publications

  • The genome of the seagrass Zostera marina reveals angiosperm adaptation to the sea

    Jeanine L. Olsen;Pierre Rouzé;Bram Verhelst;Yao-Cheng Lin

  • Seagrass landscapes and their effects on associated fauna: A review

    Christoffer Boström;Emma L. Jackson;Charles A. Simenstad

  • Seascape ecology of coastal biogenic habitats: advances, gaps, and challenges

    Christoffer Boström;Simon J. Pittman;Charles Simenstad;Ronald T. Kneib

  • Community structure and spatial variation of benthic invertebrates associated with Zostera marina (L.) beds in the northern Baltic Sea

    Christoffer Boström;Erik Bonsdorff

  • North Atlantic phylogeography and large‐scale population differentiation of the seagrass Zostera marina L.

    Jeanine L. Olsen;Wytze T. Stam;James A. Coyer;Thorsten B. H. Reusch

  • The fundamental role of ecological feedback mechanisms for the adaptive management of seagrass ecosystems - a review.

    Paul S. Maxwell;Johan S. Eklöf;Marieke M. van Katwijk;Katherine R. O'Brien

  • Zoobenthic community establishment and habitat complexity — the importance of seagrass shoot-density, morphology and physical disturbance for faunal recruitment

    Christoffer Boström;Erik Bonsdorff

  • Biodiversity mediates top–down control in eelgrass ecosystems: a global comparative‐experimental approach

    J Emmett Duffy;J Emmett Duffy;Pamela L Reynolds;Christoffer Boström;James A Coyer

  • Distribution, structure and function of Nordic eelgrass (Zostera marina) ecosystems: implications for coastal management and conservation

    Christoffer Boström;Susanne Baden;Anna-Christina Bockelmann;Karsten Dromph

  • Marine diversity shift linked to interactions among grazers, nutrients and propagule banks

    Boris Worm;Heike K. Lotze;Christoffer Boström;Roland Engkvist

  • Blue Carbon Storage Capacity of Temperate Eelgrass (Zostera marina) Meadows

    Maria Emilia Röhr;Maria Emilia Röhr;Marianne Holmer;Julia K. Baum;Mats Björk

  • Toward a Coordinated Global Observing System for Seagrasses and Marine Macroalgae

    J. Emmett Duffy;Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi;Joaquin Trinanes;Joaquin Trinanes;Joaquin Trinanes;Frank E. Muller-Karger

  • The relative importance of food and shelter for seagrass-associated invertebrates: a latitudinal comparison of habitat choice by isopod grazers

    Christoffer Boström;Johanna Mattila

  • An ancient eelgrass clone in the Baltic

    Thorsten B. H. Reusch;Christoffer Boström;Wytze T. Stam;Jeanine L. Olsen

  • Blue carbon stocks in Baltic Sea eelgrass ( Zostera marina ) meadows

    Maria Emilia Röhr;Maria Emilia Röhr;Christoffer Boström;Paula Canal-Vergés;Marianne Holmer

  • Relative importance of trophic interactions and nutrient enrichment in seagrass ecosystems: A broad-scale field experiment in the Baltic−Skagerrak area

    Susanne Baden;Christoffer Boström;Stefan Tobiasson;Heidi Arponen

  • Somatic genetic drift and multilevel selection in a clonal seagrass.

    Lei Yu;Christoffer Boström;Sören Franzenburg;Till Bayer

  • Environmental variables explaining structural and functional diversity of seagrass macrofauna in an archipelago landscape

    Christoffer Boström;Kevin O'Brien;Camilla Roos;Jan Ekebom

  • Infauna from Zostera marina L. meadows in Norway. Differences in vegetated and unvegetated areas

    Stein Fredriksen;Annelies De Backer;Christoffer Boström;Hartvig Christie

  • Empirical relationships linking distribution and abundance of marine vegetation to eutrophication

    Dorte Krause-Jensen;Sigrid Sagert;Hendrik Schubert;Christoffer Boström

  • Mimicry of emergent traits amplifies coastal restoration success.

    Ralph J. M. Temmink;Marjolijn J. A. Christianen;Marjolijn J. A. Christianen;Gregory S. Fivash;Christine Angelini

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

    Christoffer Boström;Erik Bonsdorff;Pentti Kangas;Alf Norkko

Frequent Co-Authors

Tjisse van der Heide
Tjisse van der Heide Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
J. Emmett Duffy
J. Emmett Duffy Smithsonian Institution
Roberto Danovaro
Roberto Danovaro Marche Polytechnic University
Cristina Gambi
Cristina Gambi Marche Polytechnic University
Richard K. F. Unsworth
Richard K. F. Unsworth Swansea University
Thorsten B.H. Reusch
Thorsten B.H. Reusch GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Simonetta Fraschetti
Simonetta Fraschetti University of Naples Federico II
Jeanine L. Olsen
Jeanine L. Olsen University of Groningen
Henn Ojaveer
Henn Ojaveer University of Tartu
Marianne Holmer
Marianne Holmer University of Southern Denmark

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