Within the next few decades, large underwater structures of thousands of wind turbines in
the northern European shelf seas will substantially increase the amount of habitat available …

Mangrove is an evergreen, salt tolerant plant community, which grows in inter-tidal coastal
zones of tropical and subtropical regions of the world. They are ecologically important for …

Mangrove forests globally suffer from habitat destruction and fragmentation, which may
result in severe reductions in mangrove ecosystem biodiversity and functioning. We …

Worldwide, marine rocky shores are being modified by alien species, but their successive
impacts are rarely recorded. We documented sequential invasions of Marcus Island on the …

Substantial amounts of dead wood in the intertidal zone of mature mangrove forests are
tunnelled by teredinid bivalves. When the tunnels are exposed, animals are able to use …

Marine mussels are ubiquitous and their tough byssal threads allow for the formation of
expansive, age‐aggregated mats known as mussel matrices which can host marine …

Large areas of the Pacific coast of the Americas remain unstudied regarding their intertidal
ecosystems. Given the increasing disturbance related to human impacts on intertidal …

Research on intertidal mussel assemblages and associated communities has revealed that
complexity and structure are influenced by environmental heterogeneity and local‐scale …

Ecosystem engineers can modify the environment, affecting the associated community.
Studies of mussels as ecosystem engineers have been conducted mostly in the rocky …

In the mobile sedimentary environment of San Antonio Bay (northern Patagonia), where
hard substrate is scarce, the mussel Brachidontes rodriguezii dominates the intertidal zone …