Meeting the food needs of the growing and increasingly affluent human population with the
planet’s limited resources is a major challenge of our time. Seen as the preferred approach …

The environmental impact of the production and consumption of food is seldom depicted to
consumers. The footprint of food products provides a means for consumers to compare …

Sandy beaches are iconic interfaces that functionally link the ocean with the land via the
flow of organic matter from the sea. These cross‐ecosystem fluxes often comprise uprooted …

The question of how to minimize monetary cost while meeting basic nutrient requirements (a
subsistence diet) was posed by George Stigler in 1945. The problem, known as Stigler's …

Despite its widespread use, the ecological effects of shoreline armoring are poorly synthesized
and difficult to generalize across soft sediment environments and structure types. We …

Giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera forms extensive forests on temperate reefs, providing habitat
and food for a diversity of marine life. Kelp biomass varies in response to changing ocean …

Synthesis research in ecology and environmental science improves understanding, advances
theory, identifies research priorities, and supports management strategies by linking data, …

Surf zones are highly dynamic marine ecosystems that are subject to increasing anthropogenic
and climatic pressures, posing multiple challenges for biomonitoring. Traditional …

Coastal dunes are globally recognized as natural features that can be important adaptation
approaches for climate change along urban and natural shores. We evaluated the recovery …

The coexistence of ecologically similar species is often assumed to be facilitated by differential
resource and habitat use. For sandy beach ecosystems characterized by low primary …