Climatic extremes are becoming increasingly common against a background trend of global
warming. In the oceans, marine heatwaves (MHWs)—discrete periods of anomalously warm …

Bacterial biofilms are formed by communities that are embedded in a self-produced matrix of
extracellular polymeric substances (EPS). Importantly, bacteria in biofilms exhibit a set …

The EU Bioeconomy Strategy aims to support the sustainable growth and development of
the EU bio-based sectors while creating jobs, innovation and services. Despite the …

The ocean is a key component of the Earth system (Chapter 1) as it provides essential life
supporting services (Inniss et al. 2017). For example, it stores heat trapped in the …

Abstract Seaweed aquaculture accounts for 51.3% of global mariculture production and
grows at 6.2% yr− 1 (2000–2018). It delivers a broad range of ecosystem services, providing …

While marine kelp forests have provided valuable ecosystem services for millennia, the
global ecological and economic value of those services is largely unresolved. Kelp forests …

Ecosystem reconfigurations arising from climate-driven changes in species distributions are
expected to have profound ecological, social, and economic implications. Here we reveal a …

The management and conservation of the world's oceans require synthesis of spatial data
on the distribution and intensity of human activities and the overlap of their impacts on …

▪ Abstract We review the evidence of regime shifts in terrestrial and aquatic environments in
relation to resilience of complex adaptive ecosystems and the functional roles of biological …

Estuarine and coastal transformation is as old as civilization yet has dramatically
accelerated over the past 150 to 300 years. Reconstructed time lines, causes, and …