Coastal wetland area has declined globally over the last century, but the magnitude of loss rates varies widely, and the drivers of spatial variability in land loss are often unclear. To examine drivers of wetland loss in northeast Florida USA, we performed a land cover change detection analysis using Sentinel-2 satellite imagery and examined the roles of distance to shore, mangrove presence, and boat wake energy on marsh-to-w...

Microbial symbionts influence ecological and evolutionary processes in their multicellular hosts; yet they remain poorly characterised in marine systems. Sponges host exceptionally diverse microbiomes, potentially providing rich microbial reservoirs for their residents. The tusked goby ( Risor ruber ), an obligate sponge‐dweller, and its sponge hosts provide an ideal model to investigate the causes and consequences of shared m...

Groundwater dissolved oxygen (DO) variability in coastal systems remains poorly understood despite its importance for biogeochemical cycling and ecosystem modeling. This study investigates temporal variability in groundwater DO and its hydro‐climatic drivers across timescales (hourly to seasonal) in a coastal floodplain at Beaver Creek, Washington, USA, a site transitioning from a freshwater forest to brackish tidal wetland fo...

Coral reefs are biodiverse and productive ecosystems that are found in typically oligotrophic environments. Many studies have attempted to explain this paradox by demonstrating that microbial symbionts expand metabolic capabilities of host animals. However, few studies have determined if and how coexisting organisms and their symbiotic microbial communities partition available dissolved organic matter. To address this question...

Aim Stream captures are implicated as drivers of speciation in many groups of lotic fishes. In the southeastern United States, numerous stream‐dwelling animals possess restricted trans‐divide populations at localities where quiescent geologic features intersect drainage divides, suggesting potential evidence for inter‐basin vicariance via stream capture. However, there has not yet been a comprehensive quantitative biogeographi...

For tens of thousands of years, Indigenous Peoples have shaped the structure and function of ecosystems through cultural burning, which has many important cultural, ecological, and societal values. In recent years, public interest in cultural burning has increased in response to more severe wildfires globally, and alongside greater calls from Indigenous Peoples for cultural revitalization, as well as generations of Indigenous...