Ralph J M Temmink, Marjolijn J A Christianen, Gregory S Fivash, Christine Angelini, Christoffer Boström, Karin Didderen, Sabine M Engel, Nicole Esteban, Jeffrey L Gaeckle, Karine Gagnon, Laura L Govers, Eduardo Infantes, Marieke M van Katwijk, Silvija Kipson, Leon P M Lamers, Wouter Lengkeek, Brian R Silliman, Brigitta I van Tussenbroek, Richard K F Unsworth, Siti Maryam Yaakub, Tjeerd J Bouma, Tjisse van der Heide
Restoration is becoming a vital tool to counteract coastal ecosystem degradation. Modifying transplant designs of habitat-forming organisms from dispersed to clumped can amplify coastal restoration yields as it generates self-facilitation from emergent traits, i.e. traits not expressed by individuals or small clones, but that emerge in clumped individuals or large clones. Here, we advance restoration science by mimicking key emergent traits that locally suppress physical stress using biodegradable establishment structures...
July 22, 2020: Nature Communications