Salt marshes are among the most abundant, fertile, and accessible coastal habitats on earth,
and they provide more ecosystem services to coastal populations than any other …

Research into biotic interactions has been a core theme of ecology for over a century.
However, despite the obvious role that biota play in the global carbon cycle, the effects of …

Restoration has been elevated as an important strategy to reverse the decline of coastal
wetlands worldwide. Current practice in restoration science emphasizes minimizing …

A great diversity of organisms modify the physical structure of estuarine and coastal
environments. These physical ecosystem engineers–particularly, dune and marsh plants …

Die‐offs of cordgrass are pervasive throughout western Atlantic salt marshes, yet
understanding of the mechanisms precipitating these events is limited. We tested whether …

Closely related, ecologically similar species often segregate their distributions along
environmental gradients of time, space, and resources, but previous research suggests …

Mangroves are intertidal ecosystems that are particularly vulnerable to climate change. At
the low tidal limits of their range, they face swam** by rising sea levels; at the high tidal …

Rapid, global, anthropogenic alteration of food webs in ecosystems necessitates a better
understanding of how consumers regulate natural communities. We provide a global …

High herbivore pressure is expected to benefit unpalatable species that co‐occur with
palatable browsed species. However, for five unpalatable understory species we found no …

Ecological studies of plant distributions along environmental gradients, such as plant
zonation in salt marshes, have primarily focused on abiotic stress and plant interactions …