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

Globally, there is growing interest in restoring previously widespread oyster reefs to reinstate
key ecosystem services such as shoreline protection, fisheries productivity and water …

Ocean and coastal ecosystems support life on Earth and many aspects of human well-being.
Covering two-thirds of the planet, the ocean hosts vast biodiversity and modulates the global …

Biological invasions, resulting from human activities, exert substantial impacts on
ecosystems worldwide. This review focuses on marine invasive alien species (IAS) in …

Oyster reef loss represents one of the most dramatic declines of a foundation species
worldwide. Oysters provide valuable ecosystem services (ES), including habitat …

Warming as well as species introductions have increased over the past centuries, however a
link between cause and effect of these two phenomena is still unclear. Here we use …

Biophysical models often require shelf-scale domains to map larval dispersal over several
weeks, presenting a computational challenge. This can be overcome by decreasing model …

Aquaculture has the potential to support a sustainable and equitable food system in line with
the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) on food security, climate change …

The growth of the human population causes significant harm to ecosystems, directly
affecting the biological diversity of coastal areas by replacing natural habitats with artificial …

Global climate change drives species redistribution, threatening biodiversity and ecosystem
heterogeneity. The Kumamoto oyster, Crassostrea sikamea (Amemiya, 1928), one of the …