A5024779301- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Marine and fisheries research
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Forest Management and Policy
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Ecology and biodiversity studies
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Food Industry and Aquatic Biology
- Bryophyte Studies and Records
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
UNSW Sydney
2020-2025
Environmental Earth Sciences
2023-2025
University of Victoria
2018-2021
McGill University
2014-2016
Abstract While marine kelp forests have provided valuable ecosystem services for millennia, the global ecological and economic value of those is largely unresolved. Kelp are diminishing in many regions worldwide, efforts to manage these ecosystems hindered without accurate estimates that provide human societies. Here, we present a estimate potential three key - fisheries production, nutrient cycling, carbon removal by six major forest forming genera ( Ecklonia, Laminaria, Lessonia,...
Abstract Marine kelp forests cover 1/3 of our world's coastlines, are heralded as a nature-based solution to address socio-environmental issues, connect hundreds millions people with the ocean, and support rich web biodiversity throughout oceans. But they increasingly threatened some areas reporting over 90% declines in forest living memory. Despite their importance threats face, entirely absent from international conservation dialogue. No laws, policies, or targets focus on very few...
Kelp forests are highly productive foundation species along much of the world's coastline. As a result, kelp crucial to ecological, social, and economic well-being coastal communities. Yet, due combination acute chronic stressors, under threat have declined in many locations worldwide. Active restoration ecosystems is an emerging field that aims reverse these declines by mitigating negative stressors then, if needed, introducing biotic material into environment. To date, few efforts...
Abstract Anthropogenic activities have led to the biotic homogenization of many ecological communities, yet in coastal systems this phenomenon remains understudied. In particular, that locally affect marine habitat‐forming foundation species may perturb habitat and promote with generalist, opportunistic traits, turn affecting spatial patterns biodiversity. Here, we quantified fish diversity seagrass communities across 89 sites spanning 6° latitude along Pacific coast Canada, test hypothesis...
Kelps form extensive underwater forests that underpin valuable ecosystem goods and services in temperate polar rocky coastlines globally. Stressors such as ocean warming pollution are causing regional declines of kelp their associated worldwide. Kelp forest restoration is becoming a prominent management intervention, but we have little understanding what drives success at appropriate spatial scales. Though most guidelines stress the importance planning, stressor mitigation ecological...
Summary The United Nations has declared 2021–2030 as the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. These declarations emphasise importance restoring degraded marine coastal ecosystems supporting research knowledge. number scale restoration projects have been increasing in Australia New Zealand over past 40 years. However, lack a central repository their results limits opportunities to share knowledge improve effectiveness. To address this gap, we...
Operation Crayweed focuses on the restoration of underwater forests that disappeared from coastline Sydney, Australia’s largest city, 40 years previously. We show how a combination science, hands‐on restoration, community engagement and art has helped project to reach its goals as well raise awareness about importance kelp are experiencing global decline.
Underwater kelp forests have provided valuable ecosystem services for millennia. However, the global economic value of those is largely unresolved. Kelp are also diminishing globally and efforts to manage these resources hindered without accurate estimates provide society. We present first estimation - fisheries production, nutrient cycling, carbon removal by four major forest forming genera (Macrocystis, Nereocystis, Ecklonia, Laminaria). Each provides between $135,200 $177,100/ ha/ year....
ABSTRACT Sustainably managing kelp forest ecosystems is critical to maintaining marine biodiversity, supporting coastal communities, and meeting global conservation targets such as the Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework's 30 × Kelp Forest Challenge. Effective management frequently depends on selecting environmentally suitable sites that align with species‐specific environmental requirements. This paper introduces a novel niche mapping tool synthesizes realized of 65 species...
Predators often exert top-down control on lower trophic levels, such that their removal or addition can trigger cascades. Despite coastal ecosystems containing well known cascades, the abiotic and biotic factors governing occurrence strength of these cascades are still unclear. We worked to explain variability in benthic marine by conducting a meta-analysis experimental (N = 17) observational 22) studies recorded herbivore producer populations presence absence first level predator. From data...
Today, all ecosystems are undergoing environmental change due to human activity, and in many cases the rate of is accelerating climate change. Consequently, conservation programs increasingly focused on response organisms, populations, novel conditions. In parallel, field biology developing deploying new tools assist adaptation, which we define as aiming increase probability that successfully adapt ongoing biotic abiotic Practitioners a suite adaptive processes, including acclimatization,...
We found the predictive accuracy of species distribution models (SDMs) for sedentary marine invertebrates to be dependent on methodology their application. explored three applications SDMs: first a model tested at scale smaller than which it was trained (downscaled), second larger its training (upscaled), and third same but outside extent (transferred). The accuracies these were compared with “reference” that extent. downscaled SDMs had higher reference SDMs. Transferred upscaled lower...
Kelp forest ecosystems and their associated ecosystem services are declining around the world. In response, marine managers working to restore counteract these declines. restoration first started in 1700s Japan since then has spread across globe. Restoration efforts, however, have been largely disconnected, with varying methodologies trialled by different actors countries. To distil lessons learned over last 60 years of kelp restoration, we synthesize results nearly 200 projects spanning...
Abstract Biodiversity and ecosystem function are often correlated, but there multiple hypotheses about the mechanisms underlying this relationship. Ecosystem functions such as primary or secondary production may be maximized by species richness, evenness in abundances, presence dominance of with certain traits. Here, we combine surveys natural fish communities (conducted July August 2016) morphological trait data to examine relationships between biodiversity (quantified community biomass)...
Kelps form extensive underwater forests that underpin valuable ecosystem goods and services in temperate polar rocky coastlines worldwide. Stressors such as ocean warming pollution are causing regional declines of kelp their associated Kelp forest restoration is becoming a prominent management intervention, but we have little understanding what drives success at appropriate spatial scales. This fundamental issue because the typical mismatch between scale degradation intervention these...