Annemiek Vink

TL;DR: It is found that impacts are often severe immediately after mining, with major negative changes in density and diversity of most groups occurring, however, in some cases, the mobile fauna and small-sized fauna experienced less negative impacts over the longer term.

TL;DR: While densities and diversities of some taxa can recover to or even exceed pre-disturbance levels, community composition remains affected after decades, and community shifts that persist over geological timescales at mined sites are identified.

TL;DR: A comprehensive observational database of Holocene relative sea-level (RSL) index points from northwest Europe (Belgium, the Netherlands, northwest Germany, southern North Sea) has been compiled in order to compare and reassess the data collected from different countries/regions and by different workers on a common time-depth scale.

TL;DR: The results of this work indicate that the dinoflagellate cyst worker should make a choice between using the proposed standard method which circumvents critical steps, adding Lycopodium tablets at the end of the preparation and using an alternative method.

TL;DR: These results document the existence of two end members in cyst formation: one with many short, densely distributed processes and one with a few, long, widely spaced processes which can be respectively related to low and high salinity/temperature ratios.