Populations and metropolitan centers are accumulated in coastal areas around the world. In
view of the fact that they are geographically adjacent to coasts and intense anthropogenic …

We investigated the influence of seagrass canopies on the benthic biodiversity of bacteria
and macroinvertebrates in a Red Sea tropical lagoon. Changes in abundance, number of …

Seascape ecology, the marine-centric counterpart to landscape ecology, is rapidly emerging
as an interdisciplinary and spatially explicit ecological science with relevance to marine …

Mangrove ecosystems are of high ecological value and occur in tropical and subtropical
coastal areas. They consist of salt-tolerant woody plants and are highly complex and …

Economic valuation of ecological restoration most often encompasses only the most tangible
ecosystem service benefits, thereby omitting many difficult‐to‐measure benefits, including …

Seagrass meadows are monitored in the frame of several environmental programs
worldwide, including the Water Framework Directive (WFD), to evaluate the ecological status …

Although it is well established that human activities are linked to the loss of seagrasses
worldwide, the influence of anthropogenic disturbances on the habitat fragmentation of …

Spotted seatrout, a popular recreational sport fish in the southeastern United States, are
affected by freshwater flow conditions and the availability of estuarine habitat. However, the …

The extensive accumulation of big data, along with the development of a high-performance
platform, bridge the gap between the previous inability to provide long-term time series and …

Monitoring the long-term human expansions in coastal zones and evaluating their
associated environmental impacts are critical to promoting a sustainable transformation of a …