Assessing the global threat of invasive species to marine biodiversity

JL Molnar, RL Gamboa, C Revenga… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Although invasive species are widely recognized as a major threat to marine biodiversity,
there has been no quantitative global assessment of their impacts and routes of introduction …

What's new in adaptive management and restoration of coasts and estuaries?

JB Zedler - Estuaries and Coasts, 2017 - Springer
Adaptive learning about nature, based on observations and continual rethinking, dates back
to Native Americans in what we call Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Fast forward to …

Evaluation of seagrass planting and monitoring techniques: implications for assessing restoration success and habitat equivalency

SS Bell, A Tewfik, MO Hall, MS Fonseca - Restoration Ecology, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Restoration has become an integral part of coastal management as a result of seagrass
habitat loss. We studied restoration of the seagrass (Halodule wrightii) near Tampa Bay …

Climate-linked Mechanisms Driving Spatial and Temporal Variation in Eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) Growth and Assemblage Structure in Pacific Northwest Estuaries …

R Thom, S Southard, A Borde - Journal of Coastal …, 2014 - meridian.allenpress.com
ABSTRACT Thom, R.; Southard, S., and Borde, A., 2014. Climate-linked mechanisms driving
spatial and temporal variations in eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) growth and assemblage …

Components of adaptive management

RM Argent - Adaptive environmental management: A practitioner's …, 2009 - Springer
Adaptive Management of ecosystems for production and preservation is a cyclical process
with four components: learning, describing, predicting and doing. Learning involves …

Restoring Resiliency: Case Studies from Pacific Northwest Estuarine Eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) Ecosystems

RM Thom, HL Diefenderfer, J Vavrinec, AB Borde - Estuaries and Coasts, 2012 - Springer
An objective of many ecological restoration projects is to establish resilience to
disturbances. Eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) represents a useful model to evaluate resilience …

[HTML][HTML] The resilience of transplanted seagrass traits encourages detection of restoration success

A Pansini, M Deroma, I Guala, B Monnier… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Restoration of coastal ecosystems, particularly those dominated by seagrasses, has become
a priority to recover the important ecosystem services they provide. However, assessing …

Balancing the need to develop coastal areas with the desire for an ecologically functioning coastal environment: is net ecosystem improvement possible?

RM Thom, GW Williams, HL Diefenderfer - Restoration Ecology, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The global human population is growing exponentially, close to a majority lives and works
near the coast, and coastal commerce and development are critical to the economies of …

Long-term response of fishes and other fauna to restoration of former salt hay farms: multiple measures of restoration success

KW Able, TM Grothues, SM Hagan, ME Kimball… - Reviews in Fish Biology …, 2008 - Springer
This synthesis brings together published and unpublished data in an evaluation of
restoration of former salt hay farms to functioning salt marshes. We compared nine years of …

Freshwater flow to the San Francisco Bay‐Delta estuary over nine decades (Part 1): Trend evaluation

PH Hutton, JS Rath, SB Roy - Hydrological Processes, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The San Francisco Bay‐Delta estuary and its upstream watershed have been
highly modified since exploration and settlement by Europeans in the mid‐18th century …