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 …

The north–south divide? Macroalgal functional trait diversity and redundancy varies with intertidal aspect

A Amstutz, LB Firth, A Foggo, JI Spicer… - Annals of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Marine macroalgae ('seaweeds') are critical to coastal
ecosystem structure and function, but also vulnerable to the many environmental changes …

Facing up to climate change: community composition varies with aspect and surface temperature in the rocky intertidal

A Amstutz, LB Firth, JI Spicer, ME Hanley - Marine Environmental Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Marine rocky intertidal organisms are amongst those most affected by climate change with
regional distributional changes observed for many species. Although often ascribed to …

Habitat structure shapes temperate reef assemblages across regional environmental gradients

T Jackson-Bué, AJ Evans, PJ Lawrence… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Intertidal artificial habitats are proliferating, but are generally simpler in structure and host
lower biodiversity than natural rocky reefs. Eco-engineering aims to enhance the biodiversity …

Enhancing uptake of nature-based solutions for informing coastal sustainable development policy and planning: a Malaysia case study

SY Chee, LB Firth, AYH Then, JC Yee… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) have been advocated to protect, sustainably manage, and
restore natural or modified ecosystems, simultaneously providing human well-being and …

Drivers and limits of phenotypic responses in vulnerable seagrass populations: Zostera marina in the intertidal

A Boyé, O Gauthier, R Becheler, V Le Garrec… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Intertidal seagrass meadows are exposed to both marine and terrestrial environmental
constraints. Seagrass vulnerability to climate changes in these highly dynamic and thermally …

[HTML][HTML] Science paper or big data? Assessing invasion dynamics using observational data

CH Clubley, LB Firth, LE Wood, DT Bilton… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Non-native species are spreading at an unprecedented rate over large spatial scales, with
global environmental change and growth in commerce providing novel opportunities for …

Looking for diversity in all the right places? Genetic diversity is highest in peripheral populations of the reef-building polychaete Sabellaria alveolata

FLD Nunes, F Rigal, SF Dubois, F Viard - Marine Biology, 2021 - Springer
Species distributions have been profoundly affected by past climate change, and are
expected to change considerably in response to future environmental change. To better …

Scientific basis, engineering feasibility and system optimization of green sea dykes for temperate mud coasts: a brief overview

Q Yu, J Jia, S Gao - Anthropocene Coasts, 2024 - Springer
Green sea dykes, also known as ecosystem-based sea dykes, represent a novel type of
coastal defense consisting of both traditional structural engineering and coastal ecosystems …

Environmental optima for an ecosystem engineer: a multidisciplinary trait-based approach

A Curd, A Boyé, C Cordier, F Pernet, LB Firth… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
A complex interplay of biotic and abiotic factors underpins the distribution of species and
operates across different levels of biological organization and life history stages …