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January 1, 2024
The rapid degradation of ecosystems jeopardizes the services they provide. Among the most valuable of these services is protection of coastlines by shoreline ecological communities, such as coral reefs, mangroves and salt marshes. Currently, coastal protec ...
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January 1, 2024
The global decline in estuarine and coastal ecosystems (ECEs) is affecting many of their critical benefits, or ecosystem services. We review the main ecological functions and their services across a variety of ECEs, including marshes, mangroves, near-shore ...
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January 1, 2024
Wastewater pollution is a ubiquitous threat to the health of marine and estuarine ecosystems, yet it has been severely underestimated in the past. In light of the global sanitation crisis, growing water quality concerns, and rapid aging of wastewater infra ...
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January 1, 2017
The coastal wetland of El Yali (33.82-33.72° S) is a priority site for the conservation of the flora and fauna of central Chile. In fact, it has been declared the Ramsar wetland and National Reserve by the Chilean authorities. In this chapter, a synopsis o ...
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January 1, 2017
Conservation science is unique among scientific disciplines in that it was founded on a set of normative principles. The often dogmatic adherence to these principles has made conservation science vulnerable to confirmation bias. When confronted with data, ...
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January 1, 2017
This chapter shows that coastal wetland projects are underperforming because of confirmation bias. Despite two decades of work showing that top-down control can be essential to marsh restoration, the potential role of top predators is typically ignored by ...
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January 1, 2015
General introduction of rocky intertidal and salt marsh systems. The land–sea margin encompasses a variety of hard and soft-bottom habitats where organisms are exposed to a dynamic range of aquatic and atmospheric conditions dependent on a rhythm set by th ...
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January 1, 2013
Currently, coastal protection potential of ecosystems is estimated primarily as a function of its spatial extent and type. The degree to which coastal protection depends on aspects of biodiversity within these ecosystems is, however, less explored. Here, w ...
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March 6, 2012
The global decline in estuarine and coastal ecosystems (ECEs) is affecting a number of critical benefits, or ecosystem services. We review the main ecological functions and their services across a variety of ECEs, including marshes, mangroves, nearshore co ...
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January 1, 2012
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