Mollusc aquaculture is advocated as a highly sustainable food source and may play an
important role in future food security globally. With production increasing worldwide, it is …

▪ Abstract Oysters have been introduced worldwide to 73 countries, but the ecological
consequences of the introductions are not fully understood. Economically, introduced …

Shorelines at the interface of marine, estuarine and terrestrial biomes are among the most
degraded and threatened habitats in the coastal zone because of their sensitivity to sea …

Biodiversity at multiple levels—genotypes within species, species within functional groups,
habitats within a landscape—enhances productivity, resource use, and stability of seagrass …

Efforts to restore the native oyster in the Chesapeake Bay enjoy enormous public support
and have consumed and continue to consume vast, some would argue unreasonable and …

Nonconsumptive effects (NCEs) have been shown to occur in numerous systems and are
regarded as important mechanisms by which predation structures natural communities …

Since 1998 the non-indigenous Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg 1793) has been
invading the Wadden Sea of Lower Saxony, southern German Bight. C. gigas settles …

Although multiple predator effects and trophic cascades have both been demonstrated in a
wide variety of ecosystems, ecologists have yet to incorporate these studies into an …

Restoration ecology relies heavily on ecosystem development theories that generally
assume development of fully functioning natural systems over time, but often fail to identify …

Ecosystem engineering, the physical modification of the environment by organisms, is a
common and often influential process whose significance to food web structure and …