Warming temperatures and diminishing dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations are among
the most pervasive drivers of global coastal change. While regions of the Northwest Atlantic …

This chapter reviews advances made in the study of the structure and dynamics of scallop
populations and in the development of new approaches for the assessment and …

The mitigation hierarchy is increasingly used in environmental policy as a way of reconciling
economic development and biodiversity conservation. The principle of the mitigation …

During the past century, bivalve populations across the globe have collapsed, resulting in
negative ecosystem consequences due to their outsized impact on shallow estuaries. In …

Worldwide bivalve aquaculture is expanding rapidly. Simultaneously, there has been a loss
of natural bivalve reefs due to anthropogenic activities. As bivalve reefs support several …

Changes in photosynthetic and respiration rates in coastal marine habitats cause
considerable variability in ecosystem metabolism on timescales ranging from diel to tidal to …

Blooms of the dinoflagellate, Cochlodinium (aka Margalefidinium) polykrikoides, have had
deleterious effects on marine life across the Northern Hemisphere and, since the early …

The bay scallop, Argopecten irradians, represents a commercially, culturally and
ecologically important species found along the United States' Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Since …

Abstract 'La Rinconada Marine'Reserve (MR), Chile was created in 1997 to preserve the
genetic stock of the scallop Argopecten purpuratus and eventually to supply seed to areas …

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 …