This open access book presents the proceedings volume of the YOUMARES 8 conference which took
place in Kiel Germany in September 2017 supported by the German Association for Marine
Sciences (DGM). The YOUMARES conference series is entirely bottom-up organized by and for YOUng
MARine RESearchers. Qualified early career scientists moderated the scientific sessions during
the conference and provided literature reviews on aspects of their research field. These
reviews and the presenters' conference abstracts are compiled here. Thus this book discusses
highly topical fields of marine research and aims to act as a source of knowledge and
inspiration for further reading and research.
