Marine foundation species are the biotic basis for many of the world's coastal ecosystems,
providing structural habitat, food, and protection for myriad plants and animals as well as …

Along urbanised coastlines, urban infrastructure is increasingly becoming the dominant
habitat. These structures are often poor surrogates for natural habitats, and a diversity of eco …

Interactions among species determine local‐scale diversity, but local interactions are
thought to have minor effects at larger scales. However, quantitative comparisons of the …

Viewing facilitation through the lens of the niche concept is one way to unify conceptual and
empirical advances about the role of facilitation in community ecology. We clarify …

Seagrasses provide multiple ecosystem services including nursery habitat, improved water
quality, coastal protection, and carbon sequestration. However, seagrasses are in crisis as …

Since proposed two decades ago, the stress‐gradient hypothesis (SGH), suggesting that
species interactions shift from competition to facilitation with stress, has been widely …

Habitat-forming species sustain biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in harsh
environments through the amelioration of physical stress. Nonetheless, their role in sha** …

Experiments have long been the gold standard for causal inference in Ecology. As Ecology
tackles progressively larger problems, however, we are moving beyond the scales at which …

While invasive species often threaten biodiversity and human well-being, their potential to
enhance functioning by offsetting the loss of native habitat has rarely been considered. We …

Increasingly, urbanised coastlines are being armoured by shoreline protection structures,
such as seawalls. Seawalls typically lack the complex microhabitats and protective spaces …