Estuaries and coastal seas provide valuable ecosystem services but are particularly
vulnerable to the co‐occurring threats of climate change and oxygen‐depleted dead zones …

Hypoxia affects thousands of km2 of marine waters all over the world, and has caused mass
mortality of marine animals, benthic defaunation and decline in fisheries production in many …

Water masses can become undersaturated with oxygen when natural processes alone or in
combination with anthropogenic processes produce enough organic carbon that is …

Coastal hypoxia (defined here as< 1.42 ml L− 1; 62.5 μM; 2 mg L− 1, approx. 30% oxygen
saturation) develops seasonally in many estuaries, fjords, and along open coasts as a result …

A reduction in dissolved oxygen concentration is one of the most important direct effects of
nutrient over-enrichment of coastal waters on fishes. Because hypoxia can cause mortality …

Overharvesting of wild oysters and environmental mismanagement in estuaries around the
world have resulted in the loss of fisheries income and collapse of an ecologically important …

▪ Abstract Oysters have been introduced worldwide to 73 countries, but the ecological
consequences of the introductions are not fully understood. Economically, introduced …

Oysters are ecosystem engineers that create biogenic reef habitat important to estuarine
biodiversity, benthic–pelagic coupling, and fishery production. Prevailing explanations for …

▪ Abstract Flowing water has profound effects on a diverse array of ecological processes and
patterns in streams and rivers. We propose a conceptual framework for investigating the …

A large‐scale field experiment was conducted to test whether the physical structure of
biogenic reef habitat controls physical conditions (hydrodynamics and hydrographics) with …