Coastal ecosystems provide numerous services, such as nutrient cycling, climate change
amelioration, and habitat provision for commercially valuable organisms. Ecosystem functions …

Rapid population growth and coastal development are primary drivers of marine habitat
degradation. Although shoreline hardening or armoring (the addition of concrete structures such …

Based on the belief that marine larvae, which can spend days to months in the planktonic
stage, could be transported considerable distances by ocean currents, it has long been …

Global temperatures are rising, and are expected to produce a poleward shift in the
distribution of many organisms. We quantified changes in fish assemblages within seagrass …

In the high-salinity seaward portions of estuaries, oysters seek refuge from predation,
competition and disease in intertidal areas 1 , 2 , but this sanctuary will be lost if vertical reef …

Syntheses of research spanning diverse taxa, ecosystems, timescales, and hierarchies are
crucial for understanding the cumulative impacts of the Macondo oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico…

Carbon burial is increasingly valued as a service provided by threatened vegetated coastal
habitats. Similarly, shellfish reefs contain significant pools of carbon and are globally …

Within intertidal communities, aerial exposure (emergence during the tidal cycle) generates
strong vertical zonation patterns with distinct growth boundaries regulated by physiological …

The ecosystem-level impacts of the Deepwater Horizon disaster have been largely
unpredictable due to the unique setting and magnitude of this spill. We used a five-year (2006–2010) …

Distribution of Earth’s biomes is structured by the match between climate and plant traits, which
in turn shape associated communities and ecosystem processes and services. However, …