People have caused major impacts on nearshore and intertidal habitats by building
infrastructure associated with shipping, recreation, residential and commercial …

How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is
ecology-including its urban water, soil, air, plant, and animal foundations-spatially entwined …

Urbanization is a global phenomenon that is increasingly challenging human society. It is
therefore crucially important to ensure that the relentless expansion of cities and towns …

Concrete based coastal and marine infrastructure (CMI) such as ports, piers, industrial
facilities and coastal defense elements dominate coastal zones world-wide. Coastal …

Urban ecology developed into a bona fide subdiscipline of ecology in the latter decades of
the twentieth century from intellectual seeds sown in the late 1940s and early 1950s in …

With nearly two‐thirds of the human population concentrated along coastlines, coastal
development and urbanized seascapes are inevitable. Proliferation of coastal and marine …

Humans have urbanised and fragmented landscapes across the globe, with detrimental
impacts to biodiversity, habitats and food webs in most biomes. Urbanisation might also …

Previous studies have shown that concrete tiles on seawalls that incorporate microhabitat
size variability (ie complexity) can increase species richness compared to unmodified …

Berthing pontoons, one of the most ubiquitous structures in marinas, are known to provide
recruitment substrate for a variety of marine biota but little has been reported on their …

Proliferation of urban structures and mangrove forests in estuaries are altering the shading
of intertidal sediments. Urbanization also tends to increase nutrient loads in estuaries, which …