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Mats Björk is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and has a significant body of work in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research primarily focuses on marine and coastal plant biology, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, and related fields. The main topics they explore include marine and coastal plant biology, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, marine biology and ecology research, coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine and coastal ecosystems, peatlands and wetlands ecology, and coastal and marine management.

The scientist has published extensively in several well-known venues, with frequent contributions to Frontiers in Marine Science, Scientific Reports, PLoS ONE, Ecology and Evolution, and Environmental Pollution.

Their recent publications include:

  • "A temporal record of microplastic pollution in Mediterranean seagrass soils" (2021, Environmental Pollution)
  • "Effects of temperature and hypoxia on respiration, photorespiration, and photosynthesis of seagrass leaves from contrasting temperature regimes" (2020, ICES Journal of Marine Science)
  • "Dynamics and fate of blue carbon in a mangrove-seagrass seascape: influence of landscape configuration and land-use change" (2021, Landscape Ecology)
  • "The influence of hydrodynamic exposure on carbon storage and nutrient retention in eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) meadows on the Swedish Skagerrak coast" (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • "An experimental assessment of algal calcification as a potential source of atmospheric CO2" (2020, PLoS ONE)

Björk collaborates regularly with several co-authors whose frequent partnerships include:

  • Martin Gullström
  • Martin Dahl
  • Maria E. Asplund
  • Diana Deyanova
  • Pere Masqué

In terms of subfields, Björk's work spans oceanography, ecology, management, monitoring, policy and law, environmental chemistry, and pollution. These domains support a broad examination of marine ecosystems and environmental processes.

Best Publications

  • A blueprint for blue carbon: toward an improved understanding of the role of vegetated coastal habitats in sequestering CO2

    Elizabeth Mcleod;Gail L Chmura;Steven Bouillon;Rodney Salm

  • Managing seagrasses for resilience to climate change

    Mats Bjork;Frederick T. Short;Elizabeth Mcleod;Sven Beer

  • Measuring rates of photosynthesis of two tropical seagrasses by pulse amplitude modulated (PAM) fluorometry

    Sven Beer;Mats Björk

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

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

  • Seagrass photosynthesis controls rates of calcification and photosynthesis of calcareous macroalgae in a tropical seagrass meadow

    Immaculate Sware Semesi;Sven Beer;Mats Björk

  • Alterations in seawater pH and CO2 affect calcification and photosynthesis in the tropical coralline alga, Hydrolithon sp. (Rhodophyta)

    I. Sware Semesi;I. Sware Semesi;Juma Kangwe;Mats Björk

  • Coralline Algae, Important Coral-reef Builders Threatened by Pollution

    M Bjork;SM Mohammad;M Bjorklund;A Semesi

  • Inorganic carbon utilization in marine angiosperms (seagrasses)

    Sven Beer;Mats Bjork;Frida Hellblom;Lennart Axelsson

  • Assessment of changes in the seagrass-dominated submerged vegetation of tropical Chwaka Bay (Zanzibar) using satellite remote sensing

    Martin Gullström;Bengt Lundén;Maria Bodin;Juma W. Kangwe;Juma W. Kangwe

  • Seagrass ecosystems in the Western Indian Ocean

    Martin Gullström;Maricela de la Torre Castro;Salomão O. Bandeira;Mats Björk

  • Photosynthesis in the Marine Environment

    Sven Beer;Mats Björk;John Beardall

  • Photosynthetic tolerances to desiccation of tropical intertidal seagrasses

    Mats Björk;Jacqueline Uku;Andreas Weil;Sven Beer

  • Sediment Properties as Important Predictors of Carbon Storage in Zostera marina Meadows: A Comparison of Four European Areas.

    Martin Dahl;Diana Deyanova;Silvia Gütschow;Maria E. Asplund

  • Blue Carbon Storage in Tropical Seagrass Meadows Relates to Carbonate Stock Dynamics, Plant–Sediment Processes, and Landscape Context: Insights from the Western Indian Ocean

    Martin Gullström;Liberatus D. Lyimo;Liberatus D. Lyimo;Martin Dahl;Göran S. Samuelsson

  • Seagrass Ecosystems in the Western Indian Ocean

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  • A temporal record of microplastic pollution in Mediterranean seagrass soils.

    Martin Dahl;Sanne Bergman;Mats Björk;Elena Diaz-Almela

  • Role of carbonic anhydrase in photosynthesis and inorganic-carbon assimilation in the red alga Gracilaria tenuistipitata

    Kurt Haglund;Mats Björk;Ziyadin Ramazanov;Guillermo García-Reina

  • Chapter 9 – Measurements of photosynthetic rates in seagrasses

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  • Why is Ulva intestinalis the only macroalga inhabiting isolated rockpools along the Swedish Atlantic coast

    Mats Björk;Lennart Axelsson;Sven Beer

  • INDUCIBLE MECHANISMS FOR HCO3– UTILIZATION AND REPRESSION OF PHOTORESPIRATION IN PROTOPLASTS AND THALLI OF THREE SPECIES OF ULVA (CHLOROPHYTA)1

    Mats Björk;Kurt Haglund;Ziyadin Ramazanov;Marianne Pedersén

  • Effects of CO2 enrichment on photosynthesis, growth, and nitrogen metabolism of the seagrass Zostera noltii

    Ana Alexandre;João Silva;Pimchanok Buapet;Mats Björk

  • Photosynthetic utilisation of inorganic carbon by seagrasses from Zanzibar, East Africa

    M. Björk;A. Weil;S. Semesi;S. Beer

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Gullström
Martin Gullström Södertörn University
Sven Beer
Sven Beer Tel Aviv University
Johan S. Eklöf
Johan S. Eklöf Stockholm University
Gabriele Procaccini
Gabriele Procaccini Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Marianne Pedersén
Marianne Pedersén Stockholm University
Hans W. Linderholm
Hans W. Linderholm University of Gothenburg
Pere Masqué
Pere Masqué Edith Cowan University
Birgitta Bergman
Birgitta Bergman Stockholm University
Marianne Holmer
Marianne Holmer University of Southern Denmark
Elizabeth Mcleod
Elizabeth Mcleod The Nature Conservancy

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