Estuaries act as nurseries for a wide variety of fish species, potentially providing vital
foraging opportunities and refuge from predation for their juvenile residents. Yet, these …

This special issue honours Rob Peters' outstanding contributions to the field of aquatic
ecology. It focuses on the size spectrum approach—in which individual organisms, rather …

Understanding how seascape configuration influences nursery function is important for
spatial management and conservation of essential habitats. Here, we examine how local …

Nursery functions of US West Coast drowned river valley estuaries are not well understood.
Using long-term fish-monitoring data (1995-2017) in Suisun Marsh, San Francisco Estuary …

High-quality nursery habitats support greater numbers of juveniles that survive to adulthood,
but characteristics underlying high-quality habitats remain elusive because their productivity …

Estuaries provide unique habitat conditions that are essential to the production of major
fisheries throughout the world, but quantitatively demonstrating the value of these habitats to …

Estuaries represent critical aquatic habitat that connects surface water distributed between
Earth's landmasses and oceans. They are dynamic transitional ecosystems, which provide …

Coastal ecosystems, such as estuaries, salt marshes, mangroves and seagrass meadows,
comprise some of the world's most productive and ecologically significant ecosystems …

Aim Underpinning conservation and management strategies at large spatial scales is the
concept that spatial patterns of biodiversity are known, although this information is frequently …

Understanding the 'value'of nursery habitats is increasingly perceived as essential to
conservation management of marine ecosystems globally. Yet, most work on this topic has …