Kelp forests are among the most extensive and productive coastal ecosystems, yet they remain underrepresented in global conservation policy despite widespread declines driven by interacting global- (i.e., ocean warming, marine heatwaves) to local-scale stressors. At the same time, kelp conservation and restoration efforts are expanding rapidly across regions, but measures of success and syntheses tend to primarily focus on eco...

River inflow into the coastal oceanic environment can result in low salinity submesoscale features (LSMFs). The enhanced water column stability sustained within these coherent structures affects local biological productivity. With‐event and seasonal variability of LSMFs were investigated in a coastal sea — Greater Cook Strait — that is characterised by strong tidal and wind forcing as well as being forced at the land‐sea bound...

Animal morphometrics are essential for understanding a species’ life history and its ecological interactions with the environment. This study investigates the maturity status and body condition of humpback whales ( Megaptera novaeangliae ) across understudied areas of the Northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS or drones) were used to collect photogrammetry data from humpback whales in Ireland, Norway, and Ca...

Aim Efforts to retain and restore forest integrity—the degree to which a forest's structure and function are not modified by humans—are increasingly underpinning global biodiversity conservation efforts. However, there is still much uncertainty around how species respond to changes in forest integrity. Geographically variable responses would have consequences for conservation planning assessments and targeted conservation acti...

Turbulent mixing properties were directly observed to understand the interactions and overlapping events of wind-forced and tidally forced boundary layers in a deep, weakly stratified coastal sea. Te-Moana-o-Raukawa / Cook Strait of Aotearoa / New Zealand is an 𝒪(200 m) deep, energetic strait, known to experience both strong tidal currents and high wind speeds. More than 𝒪(40 000) quality-controlled turbulence observations wer...

Green-blue urban infrastructures potentially offer win-win benefits for people and nature in urban areas. Given increasing evidence of widespread declines of insects, as well as their ecological importance, there is a need to better understand the potential role of green-blue urban infrastructure for insect conservation. In this review, we evaluated 201 studies about the ability of green-blue infrastructure to support insect d...

Citizen science plays a crucial role in helping monitor biodiversity and inform conservation. With the widespread use of smartphones, many people share biodiversity information on social media, but this information is still not widely used in conservation. Focusing on Bangladesh, a tropical megadiverse and mega‐populated country, we examined the importance of social media records in conservation decision‐making. We collated sp...