Ocean and coastal ecosystems support life on Earth and many aspects of human well-being.
Covering two-thirds of the planet, the ocean hosts vast biodiversity and modulates the global …

Domoic acid (DA), the causative agent for the human syndrome Amnesic Shellfish
Poisoning (ASP), is a potent, naturally occurring neurotoxin produced by common marine …

Marine heatwaves are increasingly affecting marine ecosystems, with cascading impacts on
coastal economies, communities, and food systems. Studies of heatwaves provide crucial …

Harmful algal blooms (HABs) can produce biotoxins that accumulate in seafood species
targeted by commercial, recreational, and subsistence fisheries and pose an increasing risk …

Abstract The 2015 US West Coast domoic acid event was caused by a massive harmful
algal bloom (HAB) that consisted mostly of the diatom Pseudo-nitzschia australis. It was …

Harmful algal blooms (HABs) have been a pervasive challenge across coastal communities
of the US West Coast in recent years negatively affecting local economies and livelihoods …

Microplastics (MPs) are anthropogenic contaminants found in coastal and marine
environments worldwide. Pacific razor clams (Siliqua patula), important for local indigenous …

Coastal social-ecological systems are vulnerable to climate change with impacts distributed
unequally amongst human communities. Vulnerability assessments, an increasingly popular …

Diatoms (Bacillariophyta) constitute one of the most diverse and ecologically significant
groups of phytoplankton, comprising 100,000–200,000 species in three classes …

Fisheries are complex and unpredictable; the design and use of adaptive tools to
understand and manage them are therefore necessary. The social-ecological systems (SES) …