Under the requirements of the EU Nature Restoration Regulation, significant investment in the restoration of marine and coastal ecosystems will be necessary in EU Member States. A certain level of knowledge among the population will be required to ensure authorities have the required social license to pursue marine ecosystem restoration activities, and awareness raising campaigns will likely be a part of the body of actions ta...

Wetland ecosystems, particularly coastal vegetated ecosystems, play a vital role in climate mitigation and adaptation. Coastal vegetated habitats (including coastal wetlands such as seagrass meadows, saltmarshes, and mangroves) are some of the most efficient ecosystems for storing carbon on a per hectare basis, retaining organic carbon for centuries to millennia. We conducted carbon stock assessments, to a depth of 1 m, across...

Human‐caused shifts in carbon (C) cycling and biotic exchange are defining characteristics of the Anthropocene. In marine systems, saltmarsh, seagrass, and mangrove habitats—collectively known as “blue carbon” and coastal vegetated habitats ( CVH s)—are a leading sequester of global C and increasingly impacted by exotic species invasions. There is growing interest in the effect of invasion by a diverse pool of exotic species o...