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The State of the World's Mangrove Forests: Past, Present, and Future Open
Intertidal mangrove forests are a dynamic ecosystem experiencing rapid changes in extent and habitat quality over geological history, today and into the future. Climate and sea level have drastically altered mangrove distribution since the…
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Marine natural products Open
This review of marine natural products for 2014 describes 1378 new compounds and reports structural revisions or assignments of absolute configuration for previously reported compounds. Since 1965 MNP chemists have made ∼9000 collections w…
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High-resolution mapping of losses and gains of Earth’s tidal wetlands Open
Tidal wetlands are expected to respond dynamically to global environmental change, but the extent to which wetland losses have been offset by gains remains poorly understood. We developed a global analysis of satellite data to simultaneous…
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A review of remote sensing for mangrove forests: 1956–2018 Open
Mangrove forests are highly productive ecosystems that typically dominate the intertidal zone of tropical and subtropical coastlines. The history of mangrove remote sensing (RS) can be traced back to 1956. Over the last six decades, hot sp…
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Marine natural products Open
A comprehensive review of 1490 new MNPs including looekeyolides A and B, which are associated with coral black band disease.
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Local Extinction of Bull Kelp (Durvillaea spp.) Due to a Marine Heatwave Open
Detailed research has documented gradual changes to biological communities \nattributed to increases in global average temperatures. However, localized and abrupt \ntemperature anomalies associated with heatwaves may cause more rapid biolo…
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Ecological Consequences of Shoreline Hardening: A Meta-Analysis Open
Protecting coastal communities has become increasingly important as their populations grow, resulting in increased demand for engineered shore protection and hardening of over 50% of many urban shorelines. Shoreline hardening is recognized…
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Eco‐engineering urban infrastructure for marine and coastal biodiversity: Which interventions have the greatest ecological benefit? Open
Along urbanised coastlines, urban infrastructure is increasingly becoming the dominant habitat. These structures are often poor surrogates for natural habitats, and a diversity of eco‐engineering approaches have been trialled to enhance th…
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Marine natural products Open
A comprehensive review of 1407 new MNPs including turbinmicin, a potent antifungal lead isolated from a marine bacterium.
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Long-Term Ecological Impacts from Oil Spills: Comparison of <i>Exxon Valdez</i>, <i>Hebei Spirit</i>, and Deepwater Horizon Open
The long-term ecological impacts of the Exxon Valdez oil spill (EVOS) are compared to two extensively studied and more recent large spills: Deepwater Horizon (DWH) and the Hebei Spirit oil spill (HSOS). Each of the three spills differed in…
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Ecosystem response persists after a prolonged marine heatwave Open
Some of the longest and most comprehensive marine ecosystem monitoring programs were established in the Gulf of Alaska following the environmental disaster of the Exxon Valdez oil spill over 30 years ago. These monitoring programs have bee…
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Mitochondrial Adaptations to Variable Environments and Their Role in Animals’ Stress Tolerance Open
Mitochondria are the key organelles involved in energy and redox homeostasis, cellular signaling, and survival. Animal mitochondria are exquisitely sensitive to environmental stress, and stress-induced changes in the mitochondrial integrit…
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Extracting the intertidal extent and topography of the Australian coastline from a 28 year time series of Landsat observations Open
The physical environment of the intertidal zone presents a number of challenges which make traditional surveying methods difficult to implement; whilst the acquisition cost of airborne elevation data can be prohibitive beyond localised app…
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Effects of microplastics on sessile invertebrates in the eastern coast of Thailand: An approach to coastal zone conservation Open
This study assessed the microplastic contamination of 3 most abundant sessile and intertidal invertebrates (Rock Oyster: Saccostrea forskalii, Striped Barnacle: Balanus amphitrite, Periwinkle: Littoraria sp.) in 3 beaches of the eastern co…
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Living shorelines can enhance the nursery role of threatened estuarine habitats Open
Coastal ecosystems provide numerous services, such as nutrient cycling, climate change amelioration, and habitat provision for commercially valuable organisms. Ecosystem functions and processes are modified by human activities locally and …
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Surface Water and Groundwater Interactions in Salt Marshes and Their Impact on Plant Ecology and Coastal Biogeochemistry Open
Salt marshes are highly productive intertidal wetlands providing important ecological services for maintaining coastal biodiversity, buffering against oceanic storms, and acting as efficient carbon sinks. However, about half of these wetla…
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Marshes and Mangroves as Nature-Based Coastal Storm Buffers Open
Tidal marshes and mangroves are increasingly valued for nature-based mitigation of coastal storm impacts, such as flooding and shoreline erosion hazards, which are growing due to global change. As this review highlights, however, hazard mi…
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Mangrove reforestation provides greater blue carbon benefit than afforestation for mitigating global climate change Open
Significant efforts have been invested to restore mangrove forests worldwide through reforestation and afforestation. However, blue carbon benefit has not been compared between these two silvicultural pathways at the global scale. Here, we…
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Remote sensing techniques: mapping and monitoring of mangrove ecosystem—a review Open
Mangrove forests are considered to be the most productive ecosystem yet vanishing rapidly over the world. They are mostly found in the intertidal zone and sheltered by the seacoast. Mangroves have potential socio-economic benefits such as …
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Global significance of seagrass fishery activity Open
Seagrass meadows support fisheries through provision of nursery areas and trophic subsidies to adjacent habitats. As shallow coastal habitats, they also provide key fishing grounds; however, the nature and extent of such exploitation are p…
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Rhizosphere Microbiomes of European + Seagrasses Are Selected by the Plant, But Are Not Species Specific Open
Seagrasses are marine flowering plants growing in soft-body sediments of intertidal and shallow sub-tidal zones. They play an important role in coastal ecosystems by stabilizing sediments, providing food and shelter for animals, and recycl…
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Spatial distribution of environmental DNA in a nearshore marine habitat Open
In the face of increasing threats to biodiversity, the advancement of methods for surveying biological communities is a major priority for ecologists. Recent advances in molecular biological technologies have made it possible to detect and…
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Spatial assessment of intertidal seagrass meadows using optical imaging systems and a lightweight drone Open
Seagrass ecosystems are highly sensitive to environmental change. They are also in global decline and under threat from a variety of anthropogenic factors. There is now an urgency to establish robust monitoring methodologies so that change…
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Cutting the costs of coastal protection by integrating vegetation in flood defences Open
Exposure to coastal flooding is increasing due to growing population and economic activity. These developments go hand-in-hand with a loss and deterioration of ecosystems. Ironically, these ecosystems can play a buffering role in reducing …
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A New Vegetation Index to Detect Periodically Submerged Mangrove Forest Using Single-Tide Sentinel-2 Imagery Open
Mangrove forests are tropical trees and shrubs that grow in sheltered intertidal zones. Accurate mapping of mangrove forests is a great challenge for remote sensing because mangroves are periodically submerged by tidal floods. Traditionall…
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Benthic primary producers are key to sustain the Wadden Sea food web: stable carbon isotope analysis at landscape scale Open
Coastal food webs can be supported by local benthic or pelagic primary producers and by the import of organic matter. Distinguishing between these energy sources is essential for our understanding of ecosystem functioning. However, the rel…
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Maximizing fish detection with eDNA metabarcoding Open
Fish biodiversity can be measured by capturing and then sequencing free DNA present in water. Such environmental DNA (eDNA) methods offer an effective, noninvasive tool for species diversity measurement, although standardized protocols are…
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Monitoring Beach Topography and Nearshore Bathymetry Using Spaceborne Remote Sensing: A Review Open
With high anthropogenic pressure and the effects of climate change (e.g., sea level rise) on coastal regions, there is a greater need for accurate and up-to-date information about the topography of these systems. Reliable topography and ba…
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The extreme 2013/2014 winter storms: Beach recovery along the southwest coast of England Open
publisher: Elsevier\narticletitle: The extreme 2013/2014 winter storms: Beach recovery along the southwest coast of England\njournaltitle: Marine Geology\narticlelink: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2016.10.011\ncontent_type: article\n…
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Intertidal salt marshes as an important source of inorganic carbon to the coastal ocean Open
© The Author(s), 2016. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Limnology and Oceanography 61 (2016): 1916–1931, doi:10.1002/lno.10347.