Abstract Sustainable Development Goal 14 of the United Nations aims to “conserve and
sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development” …

BACKGROUND Comparing patterns of terrestrial and marine defaunation helps to place
human impacts on marine fauna in context and to navigate toward recovery. Defaunation …

Excess nutrientsfrom fertiliser application, pollution discharge and water regulations outflow
through rivers from lands to oceans, seriously impact coastal ecosystems. Terrestrial runoff …

Resilience curves are used to communicate quantitative and qualitative aspects of system
behavior and resilience to stakeholders of critical infrastructure. Generally, these curves …

With increasing demand for mineral resources, extraction of polymetallic sulphides at
hydrothermal vents, cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts at seamounts, and polymetallic …

Humans strongly impact the dynamics of coastal systems, yet surprisingly few studies
mechanistically link management of anthropogenic stressors and successful restoration of …

International agreements such as the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have
committed to conserve, and sustainably and equitably use, biodiversity. The CBD is a vital …

Restricting human activities through Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) is assumed to create
more resilient biological communities with a greater capacity to resist and recover following …

Marine mammals can play important ecological roles in aquatic ecosystems, and their
presence can be key to community structure and function. Consequently, marine mammals …

Coral reef recovery from major disturbance is hypothesized to depend on the arrival of
propagules from nearby undisturbed reefs. Therefore, reefs isolated by distance or current …