Coral restoration–A systematic review of current methods, successes, failures and future directions

L Boström-Einarsson, RC Babcock, E Bayraktarov… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Coral reef ecosystems have suffered an unprecedented loss of habitat-forming hard corals
in recent decades. While marine conservation has historically focused on passive habitat …

[HTML][HTML] How plastic debris and associated chemicals impact the marine food web: A review

EM Tuuri, SC Leterme - Environmental Pollution, 2023 - Elsevier
Contamination from plastic debris is omnipresent in marine environments, posing a
substantial risk to marine organisms, food webs and the ecosystem. The overlap between …

Seagrass restoration is possible: insights and lessons from Australia and New Zealand

YM Tan, O Dalby, GA Kendrick, J Statton… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Seagrasses are important marine ecosystems situated throughout the world's coastlines.
They are facing declines around the world due to global and local threats such as rising …

A global spatial analysis reveals where marine aquaculture can benefit nature and people

SJ Theuerkauf, JA Morris Jr, TJ Waters, LC Wickliffe… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Aquaculture of bivalve shellfish and seaweed represents a global opportunity to
simultaneously advance coastal ecosystem recovery and provide substantive benefits to …

Contemporary oyster reef restoration: Responding to a changing world

AH Howie, MJ Bishop - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Globally, there is growing interest in restoring previously widespread oyster reefs to reinstate
key ecosystem services such as shoreline protection, fisheries productivity and water …

The influence of mussel restoration on coastal carbon cycling

MA Sea, JR Hillman, SF Thrush - Global Change Biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing responsiveness to anthropogenic climate change and the loss of global shellfish
ecosystems has heightened interest in the carbon storage and sequestration potential of …

Restoring shellfish reefs: Global guidelines for practitioners and scientists

JA Fitzsimons, S Branigan, CL Gillies… - … Science and Practice, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Widespread global declines in shellfish reefs (ecosystem‐forming bivalves such as oysters
and mussels) have led to growing interest in their restoration and protection. With restoration …

Enhancing multiple scales of seafloor biodiversity with mussel restoration

MA Sea, JR Hillman, SF Thrush - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Restoration projects are underway internationally in response to global declines in shellfish
beds. As diverse biological assemblages underpin a variety of ecosystem services …

The benefits of bivalve reef restoration: A global synthesis of underrepresented species

PSE Zu Ermgassen, RH Thurstan… - Aquatic …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Bivalve habitat restoration is growing in geographic extent and scale globally. While
addressing the wide‐scale loss of these biogenic habitats is still a key motivation behind …

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 …