“…It happens at a local scale, but the effects may be important for broader landscape processes (Widdows & Brinsley, 2002;Bentley Sr, et al, 2014;Walles, et al, 2015). The bioturbators' ecosystem engineering [sensu (Jones, et al, 1994;Jones, et al, 1997)] of wet sediment dynamics impacts the short-and long-term development of coastal geomorphology (Winterwerp, et al, 2018;Gao, 2019), ecology (Zhu, et al, 2016;Lukwambe, et al, 2018;Mermillod-Blondin, et al, 2018;Savelli, et al, 2019) and services provided to the human society (Barbier, 2013;Bouma, et al, 2014;Lin, et al, 2018;Silva, et al, 2019). The role of bioturbation should hence be taken into account in order to implement Ecosystem-Based management of coastal areas (Braeckman, et al, 2014;Van der Biest, et al, 2020).…”