Accelerating human-induced losses of biogenic coastal ecosystems has prompted restoration of these critical habitats. In North Carolina, seagrass restoration has predominantly focused on Zostera marina , a temperate species, despite the potential for anthropogenic climate change to cause environmental shifts that favor Halodule wrightii , a tropical/subtropical species. We investigated how water depth and seasonality influence...

Habitat restoration efforts are often limited by cost, making it important that available funds are used efficiently and effectively to achieve desired restoration goals. In this study, we evaluate habitat provision for oysters and motile epifauna on restored oyster reefs in a northwestern Gulf of Mexico estuary constructed with discrete high vertical relief (~0.6 m “reef mounds”) or continuous low vertical relief (<0.08 m “re...

Restoration is increasingly utilized as a strategy to stymie the loss of coastal habitats. Coastal habitat restoration has predominantly emphasized designs that minimize physical stress and competition. As evidence of the pervasiveness of this approach, we conducted a global survey of seagrass restorationers and found a strong affinity for stress-avoidant designs with adult shoots in dispersed rather than aggregated configurat...