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Comparing the cost effectiveness of nature-based and coastal adaptation: A case study from the Gulf Coast of the United States by Reguero, Borja G, Beck, Michael W, Bresch, David N, Calil, Juliano, Meliane, Imen

“…Coastal risks are increasing from both development and climate change. Interest is growing in the protective role that coastal nature-based measures (or green…”
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The effectiveness of coral reefs for coastal hazard risk reduction and adaptation by Ferrario, Filippo, Beck, Michael W., Storlazzi, Curt D., Micheli, Fiorenza, Shepard, Christine C., Airoldi, Laura

“…The world’s coastal zones are experiencing rapid development and an increase in storms and flooding. These hazards put coastal communities at heightened risk,…”
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The Global Flood Protection Benefits of Mangroves by Menéndez, Pelayo, Losada, Iñigo J., Torres-Ortega, Saul, Narayan, Siddharth, Beck, Michael W.

“…Coastal flood risks are rising rapidly. We provide high resolution estimates of the economic value of mangroves forests for flood risk reduction every 20 km…”
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The protective role of coastal marshes: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Shepard, Christine C, Crain, Caitlin M, Beck, Michael W

“…Salt marshes lie between many human communities and the coast and have been presumed to protect these communities from coastal hazards by providing important…”
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The global flood protection savings provided by coral reefs by Beck, Michael W., Losada, Iñigo J., Menéndez, Pelayo, Reguero, Borja G., Díaz-Simal, Pedro, Fernández, Felipe

“…Coral reefs can provide significant coastal protection benefits to people and property. Here we show that the annual expected damages from flooding would…”
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Coral reefs for coastal protection: A new methodological approach and engineering case study in Grenada by Reguero, Borja G., Beck, Michael W., Agostini, Vera N., Kramer, Philip, Hancock, Boze

“…Coastal communities in tropical environments are at increasing risk from both environmental degradation and climate change and require urgent local adaptation…”
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The Value of Coastal Wetlands for Flood Damage Reduction in the Northeastern USA by Narayan, Siddharth, Beck, Michael W., Wilson, Paul, Thomas, Christopher J., Guerrero, Alexandra, Shepard, Christine C., Reguero, Borja G., Franco, Guillermo, Ingram, Jane Carter, Trespalacios, Dania

“…As exposure to coastal hazards increases there is growing interest in nature-based solutions for risk reduction. This study uses high-resolution flood and loss…”
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The Effectiveness, Costs and Coastal Protection Benefits of Natural and Nature-Based Defences by Narayan, Siddharth, Beck, Michael W, Reguero, Borja G, Losada, Iñigo J, van Wesenbeeck, Bregje, Pontee, Nigel, Sanchirico, James N, Ingram, Jane Carter, Lange, Glenn-Marie, Burks-Copes, Kelly A

“…There is great interest in the restoration and conservation of coastal habitats for protection from flooding and erosion. This is evidenced by the growing…”
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Are coastal habitats important nurseries? A meta‐analysis by Lefcheck, Jonathan S., Hughes, Brent B., Johnson, Andrew J., Pfirrmann, Bruce W., Rasher, Douglas B., Smyth, Ashley R., Williams, Bethany L., Beck, Michael W., Orth, Robert J.

“…Nearshore‐structured habitats—including underwater grasses, mangroves, coral, and other biogenic reefs, marshes, and complex abiotic substrates—have long been…”
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Effects of Climate Change on Exposure to Coastal Flooding in Latin America and the Caribbean by Reguero, Borja G, Losada, Iñigo J, Díaz-Simal, Pedro, Méndez, Fernando J, Beck, Michael W

“…This study considers and compares several of the most important factors contributing to coastal flooding in Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) while…”
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Structure-mechanism-based engineering of chemical regulators targeting distinct pathological factors in Alzheimer’s disease by Beck, Michael W., Derrick, Jeffrey S., Kerr, Richard A., Oh, Shin Bi, Cho, Woo Jong, Lee, Shin Jung C., Ji, Yonghwan, Han, Jiyeon, Tehrani, Zahra Aliakbar, Suh, Nayoung, Kim, Sujeong, Larsen, Scott D., Kim, Kwang S., Lee, Joo-Yong, Ruotolo, Brandon T., Lim, Mi Hee

“…The absence of effective therapeutics against Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a result of the limited understanding of its multifaceted aetiology. Because of the…”
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The value of marsh restoration for flood risk reduction in an urban estuary by Taylor-Burns, Rae, Lowrie, Christopher, Tehranirad, Babak, Lowe, Jeremy, Erikson, Li, Barnard, Patrick L., Reguero, Borja G., Beck, Michael W.

“…The use of nature-based solutions (NBS) for coastal climate adaptation has broad and growing interest, but NBS are rarely assessed with the same rigor as…”
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Michael addition-based probes for ratiometric fluorescence imaging of protein S -depalmitoylases in live cells and tissues by Beck, Michael W, Kathayat, Rahul S, Cham, Candace M, Chang, Eugene B, Dickinson, Bryan C

“…The reversible modification of cysteine residues through thioester formation with palmitate (protein -palmitoylation) is a prevalent chemical modification that…”
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Resistance, resilience, and recovery of salt marshes in the Florida Panhandle following Hurricane Michael by Castagno, Katherine A., Tomiczek, Tori, Shepard, Christine C., Beck, Michael W., Bowden, Alison A., O’Donnell, Kiera, Scyphers, Steven B.

“…Characterizing the fragility, resistance, and resilience of marshes is critical for understanding their role in reducing storm damages and for helping to…”
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Coral Reefs and People in a High-CO2 World: Where Can Science Make a Difference to People? by Pendleton, Linwood, Comte, Adrien, Langdon, Chris, Ekstrom, Julia A, Cooley, Sarah R, Suatoni, Lisa, Beck, Michael W, Brander, Luke M, Burke, Lauretta, Cinner, Josh E, Doherty, Carolyn, Edwards, Peter E T, Gledhill, Dwight, Jiang, Li-Qing, van Hooidonk, Ruben J, Teh, Louise, Waldbusser, George G, Ritter, Jessica

“…Increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere put shallow, warm-water coral reef ecosystems, and the people who depend upon them at risk from two key…”
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Coastal Ecosystems: A Critical Element of Risk Reduction by Spalding, Mark D, McIvor, Anna L, Beck, Michael W, Koch, Evamaria W, Möller, Iris, Reed, Denise J, Rubinoff, Pamela, Spencer, Thomas, Tolhurst, Trevor J, Wamsley, Ty V, Wesenbeeck, Bregje K, Wolanski, Eric, Woodroffe, Colin D

“…The conservation of coastal ecosystems can provide considerable coastal protection benefits, but this role has not been sufficiently accounted for in coastal…”
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Challenges for Restoration of Coastal Marine Ecosystems in the Anthropocene by Abelson, Avigdor, Reed, Daniel C., Edgar, Graham J., Smith, Carter S., Kendrick, Gary A., Orth, Robert J., Airoldi, Laura, Silliman, Brian, Beck, Michael W., Krause, Gesche, Shashar, Nadav, Stambler, Noga, Nelson, Peter

“…Coastal marine ecosystems provide critical goods and services to humanity but many are experiencing rapid degradation. The need for effective restoration tools…”
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Aligning Natural Resource Conservation and Flood Hazard Mitigation in California by Calil, Juliano, Beck, Michael W, Gleason, Mary, Merrifield, Matthew, Klausmeyer, Kirk, Newkirk, Sarah

“…Flooding is the most common and damaging of all natural disasters in the United States, and was a factor in almost all declared disasters in U.S. Direct flood…”
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Assessing the effects of using high-quality data and high-resolution models in valuing flood protection services of mangroves by Menéndez, Pelayo, Losada, Iñigo J, Torres-Ortega, Saúl, Toimil, Alexandra, Beck, Michael W

“…The rate of change on coastlines is accelerating from climate change and coastal development. Coastal flooding is a particularly pressing and increasing…”
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Managing for ocean biodiversity to sustain marine ecosystem services by Palumbi, Stephen R, Paul A Sandifer, J David Allan, Michael W Beck, Daphne G Fautin, Michael J Fogarty, Benjamin S Halpern, Lewis S Incze, Jo-Ann Leong, Elliott Norse, John J Stachowicz, Diana H Wall

“…Managing a complex ecosystem to balance delivery of all of its services is at the heart of ecosystem‐based management. But how can this balance be…”
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