Netherlands Journal of Sea Research 

TL;DR: Failure to fully evaluate the assumptions underlying these hypotheses may have led to erroneous generalizations regarding the importance of size at age/stage and growth rate on the probability of death due to predation, and neither the ‘bigger is better’, nor the ’stage duration’ hypotheses is unequivocally supported.

TL;DR: It is concluded that habitat-related processes on nursery grounds probably serve to dampen rather than generate recruitment variability and neither habitat quality nor quantity act independently and growth, survival and subsequent recruitment levels of juvenile flatfishes from their nursery grounds must be seen as a result of the interplay between both habitat quality and quantity.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the physical properties of the North Sea is presented, focusing on the processes that are responsible for the physical environment, including the dominant feature of the tidal motion.

TL;DR: The EERSEM model dynamically simulates the biogeochemical seasonal cycling of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and silicon in the pelagic and benthic food webs of the North Sea, and is forced by irradiance, temperature and transport processes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between tidal asymmetry and estuarine morphology is investigated, based on theoretical considerations some general principles are derived and compared with field observations, and the results show that residual sediment transport depends on differences in magnitude and duration between ebb and flood tidal currents.