Over 60% of the world's reefs experience damage from local activities such as overfishing,
coastal development, and watershed pollution. Land-based sources of pollution are a critical …

Mangroves, seagrasses, and coral reefs interact in tropical regions throughout the world.
These ecosystems exhibit strong synergies, as the health of each ecosystem supports the …

Seascape ecology, the marine-centric counterpart to landscape ecology, is rapidly emerging
as an interdisciplinary and spatially explicit ecological science with relevance to marine …

Through research, restoration of agro-ecological sites, and a renaissance of cultural
awareness in Hawaiʻi, there has been a growing recognition of the ingenuity of the …

Context Seagrass meadows act as efficient natural carbon sinks by sequestering
atmospheric CO 2 and through trapping of allochthonous organic material, thereby …

Coastal cities continue to experience rapid urbanisation and population growth worldwide,
linked to the diverse economic and social benefits flowing from proximity to the sea. Growing …

Nursery functions of US West Coast drowned river valley estuaries are not well understood.
Using long-term fish-monitoring data (1995-2017) in Suisun Marsh, San Francisco Estuary …

Coral reefs are facing unprecedented global, regional and local threats that continue to
degrade near-shore habitats. Water quality degradation, due to unsustainable development …

Nearshore ecosystems (eg, mangrove forests, sea grass beds, coral reefs) are some of the
most biologically diverse and ecologically productive on Earth, while providing essential …

Oil spills are a global environmental challenge with ecological impacts at local and regional
scales. In 2019, a major oil spill from an unknown source reached the Brazilian margin and …