Vegetated marine and freshwater habitats are being increasingly lost around the world.
Habitat restoration is a critical step for conserving these valuable habitats, but new …

Habitat alteration is broadly thought to be a primary threat to global biodiversity and has
become the dominant topic for conservation biology. However, it is a complex process …

Seagrass meadows and their associated biodiverse assemblages have declined globally
due to environmental and anthropogenic stressors. Restoration of these critical habitats has …

Intertidal reefs of Crassostrea virginica (eastern oyster) provide ecologically valuable habitat
in estuaries along the Atlantic coast of North America. In Mosquito Lagoon, a shallow-water …

In marine systems, seagrass meadows, which serve as essential nursery and adult habitat
for numerous species, experience fragmentation through both human activity and …

Human activities degrade and fragment coastal marine habitats, reducing their structural
complexity and making habitat edges a prevalent seascape feature. Though habitat edges …

Living shorelines (LS) stabilize eroding banks while providing more natural habitats and
creating a gentler slope for enhanced migration of flora and fauna migration as sea levels …

Seminal ecological theories, island biogeography and the single large or several small
(SLOSS) reserve debate, examine whether large contiguous habitats conserve biodiversity …

Habitat heterogeneity is increased in natural systems via habitat loss and fragmentation,
which decreases the patch size and alters the amount of edge relative to interior. However …

The structure of local ecological communities is thought to be determined by a series of
hierarchical abiotic and biotic filters which select for or against species based on their traits …