Protection, restoration, and regeneration of aquatic habitats are an increasingly important issue and are requiring intensive research. In the marine environment, artificial reefs may be …
JWP Coolen, B Van Der Weide… - ICES Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The introduction of artificial hard substrates in an area dominated by a sandy seabed increases habitat available to epifouling organisms. To investigate this, samples were taken …
Coastal squeeze caused by sea level rise threatens the size, type, and quality of intertidal habitats. Along coastlines protected by hard defenses, there is a risk that natural rocky shore …
Z Boakes, IGNA Suryaputra, AE Hall, DJ Franklin… - Marine Biology, 2023 - Springer
Artificial reefs are now commonly used as a tool to restore degraded coral reefs and have a proven potential to enhance biodiversity. Despite this, there is currently a limited …
An essential component of the coral reef animal diversity is the species hidden in crevices within the reef matrix, referred to as the cryptobiome. These organisms play an important …
MI Toledo, P Torres, C Díaz, V Zamora, J López… - Ecological …, 2020 - Springer
As part of efforts to restore fishery resources and recover damaged coastal ecosystems, artificial reefs are often anchored on the seafloor in coastal zones, to provide new habitats …
P Berry, I Brown - The third UK climate change risk assessment …, 2021 - pure.sruc.ac.uk
Climate change continues to affect the natural environment across the UK and so this chapter has the same general scope as of Chapter 3 in CCRA2, and correspondingly …
A Bender, O Langhamer, J Sundberg - Marine Environmental Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Environmental impacts from wave energy generators on the local mobile mega-and macrofauna community have been investigated in the Lysekil project by Uppsala University …
KA O'Shaughnessy, S Perkol-Finkel… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In response to the environmental damage caused by urbanization, Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are being implemented to enhance biodiversity and ecosystem processes with mutual …