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List of works by Laura L. Govers

A Lévy expansion strategy optimizes early dune building by beach grasses.

scientific article published on 14 June 2019

A facultative mutualistic feedback enhances the stability of tropical intertidal seagrass beds

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Adaptive intertidal seed-based seagrass restoration in the Dutch Wadden Sea

scientific article published on 9 February 2022

Addressing data-deficiency of threatened sharks and rays in a highly dynamic coastal ecosystem using environmental DNA

scientific article published in 2023

Biodegradable artificial reefs enhance food web complexity and biodiversity in an intertidal soft‐sediment ecosystem

scientific article published on 3 January 2023

Bionovelty and ecological restoration

scientific article published on 15 April 2024

Burrowing Crabs Weaken Mutualism Between Foundation Species

scientific article published on 12 October 2018

Characterizing bedforms in shallow seas as an integrative predictor of seafloor stability and the occurrence of macrozoobenthic species

scientific article published in 2022

Copper sulphate treatment induces Heterozostera seed germination and improves seedling growth rates

scientific article published on 04 March 2022

Copper treatment during storage reduces Phytophthora and Halophytophthora infection of Zostera marina seeds used for restoration

scientific article published on 22 February 2017

Discovery of Sabellaria spinulosa reefs in an intensively fished area of the Dutch Continental Shelf, North Sea

Drought, Mutualism Breakdown, and Landscape-Scale Degradation of Seagrass Beds

scientific article

Enhancing ecological complexity in soft‐bottom coastal ecosystems: the impact of introducing hard substrates

scientific article published in 2024

Eutrophication threatens Caribbean seagrasses - An example from Curaçao and Bonaire.

scientific article published on 23 September 2014

Evidence for 'critical slowing down' in seagrass: a stress gradient experiment at the southern limit of its range

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Facilitating foundation species: The potential for plant–bivalve interactions to improve habitat restoration success

scientific article published on 02 March 2020

How grazing management can maximize erosion resistance of salt marshes

scientific article

How habitat-modifying organisms structure the food web of two coastal ecosystems

scientific article published in March 2016

Incorporating facilitative interactions into small‐scale eelgrass restoration—challenges and opportunities

scientific article published on 5 May 2021

Industrial Fishing Near West African Marine Protected Areas and Its Potential Effects on Mobile Marine Predators

scientific article published on 04 March 2021

Initiating and upscaling mussel reef establishment with life cycle informed restoration: Successes and future challenges

scientific article published in 2022

Living in the intertidal: desiccation and shading reduce seagrass growth, but high salinity or population of origin have no additional effect

scientific article published on 20 July 2018

Mangrove-mudflat connectivity shapes benthic communities in a tropical intertidal system

scientific article

Marine Phytophthora species can hamper conservation and restoration of vegetated coastal ecosystems.

scientific article published in August 2016

Mimicry of emergent traits amplifies coastal restoration success

scientific article published on 22 July 2020

Multiple Halophytophthora spp. and Phytophthora spp. including P. gemini, P. inundata and P. chesapeakensis sp. nov. isolated from the seagrass Zostera marina in the Northern hemisphere

scientific article published on 28 August 2018

North Sea demersal fisheries prefer specific benthic habitats

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

On the use of large-scale biodegradable artificial reefs for intertidal foreshore stabilization

scientific article

Repetitive desiccation events weaken a salt marsh mutualism

scientific article published on 04 April 2019

Review: Host-pathogen dynamics of seagrass diseases under future global change.

scientific article published on 28 September 2017

Seagrass Restoration Is Possible: Insights and Lessons From Australia and New Zealand

scientific article published on 14 August 2020

Seagrass Sensitivity to Collapse Along a Hydrodynamic Gradient: Evidence from a Pristine Subtropical Intertidal Ecosystem

scientific article published on 2 January 2019

Seagrass leaf element content: A global overview.

scientific article

Seagrasses are negatively affected by organic matter loading and Arenicola marina activity in a laboratory experiment.

scientific article published on 15 March 2014

Seagrasses as indicators for coastal trace metal pollution: a global meta-analysis serving as a benchmark, and a Caribbean case study

scientific article published on 21 September 2014

Spatial design improves efficiency and scalability of seed‐based seagrass restoration

scientific article

Sulfide as a soil phytotoxin-a review

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Suppressing antagonistic bioengineering feedbacks doubles restoration success

scientific article

Surviving in Changing Seascapes: Sediment Dynamics as Bottleneck for Long-Term Seagrass Presence

The importance of marshes providing soil stabilization to resist fast‐flow erosion in case of a dike breach

scientific article published in 2022

Toxic effects of increased sediment nutrient and organic matter loading on the seagrass Zostera noltii

scientific article published on 12 July 2014

Trophic cascade induced by molluscivore predator alters pore-water biogeochemistry via competitive release of prey

scientific article

Using salt marshes for coastal protection: Effective but hard to get where needed most

scientific article published in 2023

Where land meets sea: Intertidal areas as key‐habitats for sharks and rays

scientific article published on 21 February 2023