Literature linking phenology to climate has proliferated in recent decades and shows that climate change has reorganized seasonal opportunities worldwide. However, this literature often quantifies changes in point measures of timing (e.g., beginnings and peaks) without context about duration (e.g., rearing season length) or performance (e.g., juvenile development). Consequently, phenological studies often cannot discern whethe...

Estuaries provide many important functions for numerous aquatic species across life stages. However, these habitats have been widely impacted due to their characteristics and features that support agriculture and industrialization. Within Puget Sound, estuary restoration has been a primary tool to support recovery of Chinook salmon which are known to rely heavily on estuaries during early life history. Tracking habitat gains v...

Estuaries comprise important but often-degraded fish nursery habitat. People have invested considerable resources into restoring estuaries to rehabilitate habitats, but comparatively little work has evaluated population outcomes for target species. Here, we examined the response of a threatened population of Chinook salmon ( Oncorhynchus tshawytscha ) to estuary restoration in their natal tidal delta, and observed demographic...

People seek reliable natural resources despite climate change. Diverse habitats and biologies stabilize productivity against disturbances like climate, prompting arguments to promote climate‐resilient resources by prioritizing complex, less‐modified ecosystems. These arguments hinge on the hypothesis that simplifying and degrading ecosystems will reduce resources’ climate resilience, a process liable to be cryptically evolving...

Many nearshore ecosystems are modified by aquaculture, including bivalve culture to produce food and restore extirpated populations. Small invertebrates in nearshore ecosystems support fundamental ecological processes, but the effects of bivalve culture on invertebrates are incompletely understood. Here, we compared invertebrate assemblages from multiple studies of bivalve-cultivated and unmodified nearshore habitats along the...

A key step in identifying global change impacts on species and ecosystems is to quantify effects of multiple stressors. To date, the science of global change has been dominated by regional field studies, experimental manipulation, meta‐analyses, conceptual models, reviews, and studies focusing on a single stressor or species over broad spatial and temporal scales. Here, we provide one of the first studies for coastal systems e...