1. Editorial

   EditorialNotes Pages: 81 - 81

2. Salt marsh sediments as natural resources for dike construction — sediment recycling in clay pits

   • M. Karle
   • A. Bartholomä

   OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 92

3. Macrofauna succession in an infilling salt marsh clay pit

   • Sandra Vöge
   • Henning Reiss
   • Ingrid Kröncke

   OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 106

4. Impacts of clay excavation on the local flora of salt marshes

   • Detlev Metzing
   • Albrecht Gerlach

   OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 113

5. Day-night activity of intertidal invertebrates and methods to estimate prey accessibility for shorebirds

   • Wiebke Esser
   • Sandra Vöge
   • Klaus -Michael Exo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 115 - 122

6. On the acquisition of geometric and semantic data of the Kachelotplate by means of airborne and terrestrial LIDAR

   • Manfred Weisensee
   • Hillrich Smit-Philipp
   • Dennis Marczak

   OriginalPaper Pages: 123 - 129

7. First stages of arthropod colonisation of a sand bank island in the German Wadden Sea

   • R. Niedringhaus
   • T. Lieckweg

   OriginalPaper Pages: 131 - 135

8. Roosting waterbirds at the Osterems, German wadden Sea: seasonal and spatial trends studied by aerial and ground surveys

   • Gregor Scheiffarth
   • Peter H. Becker

   OriginalPaper Pages: 137 - 142

9. Grey seals — a homecoming species in the Wadden Sea

   • Richard Czeck
   • Maike Paul

   OriginalPaper Pages: 143 - 146

10. Marine litter on the Kachelotplate, Lower Saxonian Wadden Sea

    • Gerd Liebezeit

    OriginalPaper Pages: 147 - 151

11. Allochthonous organic matter as carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus source on a sandbank island (Kachelotplate, Lower Saxonian Wadden Sea, Germany)

    • Gerd Liebezeit
    • Ralf Wöstmann
    • Steffen Wolters

    OriginalPaper Pages: 153 - 161

12. The impact of hydrodynamics and texture on the infiltration of rain and marine waters into sand bank island sediments — Aspects of infiltration and groundwater dynamics

    • K. Klaassen
    • H. Bormann
    • G. Liebezeit

    OriginalPaper Pages: 163 - 171

13. Biofilms in surface sediments of the ephemeral sand bank island Kachelotplate (southern North Sea)

    • Gisela Gerdes
    • Achim Wehrmann

    OriginalPaper Pages: 173 - 183

14. Sedimentary dynamics of an ephemeral sand bank island (Kachelotplate, German Wadden Sea): An atlas of sedimentary structures

    • Achim Wehrmann
    • Elke Tilch

    OriginalPaper Pages: 185 - 198