Anthropogenic impacts on community structure and function within intertidal ecosystems

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The relationship between ecosystem function and community structure is complex and dynamic. Understanding the mechanisms underlying this complex interplay and how this relationship changes as we modify our environment is a challenging problem. This challenge is especially relevant now as anthropogenic activities such as climate change and pollution are rapidly altering aquatic and terrestrial communities and hence how nutrients and elements cycle through these systems. The maintenance of ecosystems is a requirement because as a society we are dependent on these systems for healthy soils, clean air and water.