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    Spatial community structure of groundfish is conserved across the Gulf of Alaska

    The mechanisms structuring patterns of diversity and community composition can be difficult to identify in large, open ecological systems. However, it is important to understand what drives these patterns at larger scales, especially in the face of climate change and other perturbations. The Gulf of Alaska (GOA) is an ideal study system, because it has complex topography, climate-driven variability, and an on-going groundfish community survey.

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    Response of Nekton to Tidal Salt Marsh Restoration, a Meta-Analysis of Restoration Trajectories

    Restoration of 4049 ha of tidal wetlands was required to offset nekton losses at a power facility located on Delaware Bay, USA. Vegetation coverage, the permitted criterion for success, was compared by meta-analysis to restoration trajectories for abundance and growth of dominant nekton during the same 17-year period at two reference and five restoration sites.

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    Global Observational Needs and Resources for Marine Biodiversity

    The diversity of life in the sea is critical to the health of ocean ecosystems that support living resources and therefore essential to the economic, nutritional, recreational, and health needs of billions of people. Yet there is evidence that the biodiversity of many marine habitats is being altered in response to a changing climate and human activity. Understanding this change, and forecasting where changes are likely to occur, requires monitoring of organism diversity, distribution, abundance, and health.

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    Assessment of the Cumulative Effects of Restoration Activities on Water Quality in Tampa Bay, Florida

    Habitat and water quality restoration projects are commonly used to enhance coastal resources or mitigate the negative impacts of water quality stressors. Significant resources have been expended for restoration projects, yet much less attention has focused on evaluating broad regional outcomes beyond site-specific assessments.

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    Using nature-based solutions across the globe in wastewater treatment for improved water quality and other benefits for nature and people

    Presentation at the International Conference for Conservation Biology on July 22nd, 2019 as part of the Symposium: Moving Beyond Bias: Forging change across boundaries by engaging academics, practitioners, and public and private sectors in rapid synthesis science solving immediate challenges for nature and people.

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    Development and testing of a decision-support system to facilitate the implementation of Nature-based solutions for urban water sanitation.

    Report on development decision support system to select NBS solutions for sanitation

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    Ecosystem services for human health in Oceania

    Ecosystem frameworks can be used to address SDG3 Health and Wellbeing for all. This includes a range of significant infectious and non-communicable diseases. Cultural ecosystem services impact significantly on mental and socio-cultural health. An Oceania Common Platform to respond to ecosystem-health risks is being established. WishFIJI research focuses on the watershed to reduce leptospirosis, dengue and typhoid.

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    Place-based management can reduce human impacts on coral reefs in a changing climate

    Declining natural resources have contributed to a cultural renaissance across the Pacific that seeks to revive customary ridge‐to‐reef management approaches to protect freshwater and restore abundant coral reef fisheries. We applied a linked land–sea modeling framework based on remote sensing and empirical data, which couples groundwater nutrient export and coral reef models at fine spatial resolution.

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    Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed

    Global change drivers (GCDs) are expected to alter community structure and consequently, the services that ecosystems provide. Yet, few experimental investigations have examined effects of GCDs on plant community structure across multiple ecosystem types, and those that do exist present conflicting patterns. In an unprecedented global synthesis of over 100 experiments that manipulated factors linked to GCDs, we show that herbaceous plant community responses depend on experimental manipulation length and number of factors manipulated.

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    Fungal functional ecology: Bringing a trait-based approach to plant-associated fungi

    Fungi play many essential roles in ecosystems. They facilitate plant access to nutrients and water, serve as decay agents that cycle carbon and nutrients through the soil, water and atmosphere, and are major regulators of macro-organismal populations. Although technological advances are improving the detection and identification of fungi, there still exist key gaps in our ecological knowledge of this kingdom, especially related to function.

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