Coastal greening of grey infrastructure: an update on the state of the art

LB Firth, J Bone, A Bartholomew… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - icevirtuallibrary.com
In the marine environment, greening of grey infrastructure (GGI) is a rapidly growing field
that attempts to encourage native marine life to colonise marine artificial structures to …

Ecological complexity and the biosphere: the next 30 years

R Solé, S Levin - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Global warming, habitat loss and overexploitation of limited resources are leading to
alarming biodiversity declines. Ecosystems are complex adaptive systems that display …

Turning a lost reef ecosystem into a national restoration program

D McAfee, IM McLeod, HK Alleway… - Conservation …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Achieving a sustainable socioecological future now requires large‐scale environmental
repair across legislative borders. Yet, enabling large‐scale conservation is complicated by …

The elephant in the room: Introduced species also profit from refuge creation by artificial fish habitats

RPM Gauff, E Joubert, A Curd, A Carlier… - Marine Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Increasingly, ecological rehabilitation is envisioned to mitigate and revert impacts of ocean
sprawl on coastal marine biodiversity. While in the past studies have demonstrated the …

[HTML][HTML] Topography-based modulation of environmental factors as a mechanism for intertidal microhabitat formation: A basis for marine ecological design

F Bauer, AM Knights, ME Hanley, JN Griffin… - Marine Pollution …, 2024 - Elsevier
Topographic complexity is often considered to be closely associated with habitat complexity
and niche diversity; however, complex topography per se does not imply habitat suitability …

The ecological benefits of adding topographic complexity to seawalls vary across estuarine gradients

GA Clifton, KA Dafforn, MJ Bishop - Ecological Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Artificial structures such as seawalls increasingly dominate marine urban environments. As
compared to natural rocky shore habitats, seawalls are usually flat, featureless, vertical …

[HTML][HTML] The BioGeo Ecotile: Improving biodiversity on coastal defences using a multiscale, multispecies eco-engineering design

E Kosová, K James, M MacArthur, A Vovides… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hard coastal defences support lower biodiversity than natural rocky shores. Ecological
enhancement on coastal structures can improve biodiversity by increasing habitat …

Facilitation of non-indigenous ascidian by marine eco-engineering interventions at an urban site

N Schaefer, F Sedano, MJ Bishop, K Dunn… - Biofouling, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Marine artificial structures often support lower native species diversity and more non-
indigenous species (NIS), but adding complex habitat and using bioreceptive materials have …

[HTML][HTML] Complexity-functioning relationships differ across different environmental conditions

M Mayer-Pinto, A Caley, AM Knights, L Airoldi… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Habitat complexity is widely considered an important determinant of biodiversity, and
enhancing complexity can play a key role in restoring degraded habitats. However, the …

Physical and biogenic complexity mediates ecosystem functions in urban sessile marine communities

M Mayer‐Pinto, AB Bugnot, EL Johnston… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The influence of habitat complexity on biodiversity is a central theme in ecology, with many
studies reporting positive relationships. Reconciliation approaches in urbanised areas, such …