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

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 …

Oyster farming is one of the oldest forms of aquaculture and oysters are farmed around the
globe. As with aquaculture in general, oyster aquaculture production has increased rapidly …

There has been a dramatic growth in research on biological invasions over the past 20
years, but a mature understanding of the field has been hampered because invasion …

Native oyster reefs once dominated many estuaries, ecologically and economically.
Centuries of resource extraction exacerbated by coastal degradation have pushed oyster …

Biofouling in marine aquaculture is a specific problem where both the target culture species
and/or infrastructure are exposed to a diverse array of fouling organisms, with significant …

Exotic species affect the biogeochemical pools and fluxes of materials and energy, thereby
altering the fundamental structure and function of their ecosystems. Rapidly accumulating …

We report results from an oyster hatchery on the Oregon coast, where intake waters
experienced variable carbonate chemistry (aragonite saturation state< 0.8 to> 3.2; pH< 7.6 …

Although invasive species are widely recognized as a major threat to marine biodiversity,
there has been no quantitative global assessment of their impacts and routes of introduction …

Non‐native species can cause the loss of biological diversity (ie, genetic, species, and
ecosystem diversity) and threaten the well‐being of humans when they become invasive. In …