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    Consumer control as a common driver of coastal vegetation worldwide by He, Qiang, Silliman, Brian R.

    Published in Ecological monographs (01-08-2016)
    “…Rapid, global, anthropogenic alteration of food webs in ecosystems necessitates a better understanding of how consumers regulate natural communities. We…”
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    Secondary foundation species as drivers of trophic and functional diversity: evidence from a tree-epiphyte system by Angelini, Christine, Silliman, Brian R.

    Published in Ecology (Durham) (01-01-2014)
    “…Facilitation cascades arise where primary foundation species facilitate secondary (dependent) foundation species, and collectively, they increase habitat…”
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    A blueprint for blue carbon: toward an improved understanding of the role of vegetated coastal habitats in sequestering CO2 by Mcleod, Elizabeth, Chmura, Gail L, Bouillon, Steven, Salm, Rodney, Björk, Mats, Duarte, Carlos M, Lovelock, Catherine E, Schlesinger, William H, Silliman, Brian R

    Published in Frontiers in ecology and the environment (01-12-2011)
    “…Recent research has highlighted the valuable role that coastal and marine ecosystems play in sequestering carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). The carbon (C) sequestered in…”
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    Facilitation shifts paradigms and can amplify coastal restoration efforts by Silliman, Brian R., Schrack, Elizabeth, He, Qiang, Cope, Rebecca, Santoni, Amanda, van der Heide, Tjisse, Jacobi, Ralph, Jacobi, Mike, van de Koppel, Johan

    “…Restoration has been elevated as an important strategy to reverse the decline of coastal wetlands worldwide. Current practice in restoration science emphasizes…”
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    The present and future role of coastal wetland vegetation in protecting shorelines: answering recent challenges to the paradigm by Gedan, Keryn B., Kirwan, Matthew L., Wolanski, Eric, Barbier, Edward B., Silliman, Brian R.

    Published in Climatic change (01-05-2011)
    “…For more than a century, coastal wetlands have been recognized for their ability to stabilize shorelines and protect coastal communities. However, this…”
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    Degradation and resilience in Louisiana salt marshes after the BP–Deepwater Horizon oil spill by Silliman, Brian R, van de Koppel, Johan, McCoy, Michael W, Diller, Jessica, Kasozi, Gabriel N, Earl, Kamala, Adams, Peter N, Zimmerman, Andrew R

    “…More than 2 y have passed since the BP– Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, yet we still have little understanding of its ecological impacts…”
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    A keystone mutualism underpins resilience of a coastal ecosystem to drought by Angelini, Christine, Griffin, John N., van de Koppel, Johan, Lamers, Leon P. M., Smolders, Alfons J. P., Derksen-Hooijberg, Marlous, van der Heide, Tjisse, Silliman, Brian R.

    Published in Nature communications (18-08-2016)
    “…Droughts are increasing in severity and frequency, yet the mechanisms that strengthen ecosystem resilience to this stress remain poorly understood. Here, we…”
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    Variable responses to top-down and bottom-up control on multiple traits in the foundational plant, Spartina alterniflora by Valdez, Stephanie R, Daleo, Pedro, DeLaMater, 3rd, David S, Silliman, Brian R

    Published in PloS one (25-05-2023)
    “…While the effects of top-down and bottom-up forces on aboveground plant growth have been extensively examined, less is known about the relative impacts of…”
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    Time to cash in on positive interactions for coral restoration by Shaver, Elizabeth C, Silliman, Brian R

    Published in PeerJ (San Francisco, CA) (22-06-2017)
    “…Coral reefs are among the most biodiverse and productive ecosystems on Earth, and provide critical ecosystem services such as protein provisioning, coastal…”
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    Shorebirds-driven trophic cascade helps restore coastal wetland multifunctionality by Li, Chunming, Chen, Jianshe, Liao, Xiaolin, Ramus, Aaron P., Angelini, Christine, Liu, Lingli, Silliman, Brian R., Bertness, Mark D., He, Qiang

    Published in Nature communications (06-12-2023)
    “…Ecosystem restoration has traditionally focused on re-establishing vegetation and other foundation species at basal trophic levels, with mixed outcomes. Here,…”
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    Positive Ecological Interactions and the Success of Seagrass Restoration by Valdez, Stephanie R., Zhang, Y. Stacy, van der Heide, Tjisse, Vanderklift, Mathew A., Tarquinio, Flavia, Orth, Robert J., Silliman, Brian R.

    Published in Frontiers in Marine Science (20-02-2020)
    “…Seagrasses are a valuable environmental resource. They provide a multitude of ecosystem services including nursery habitat, improved water quality, coastal…”
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    Climate Change, Human Impacts, and Coastal Ecosystems in the Anthropocene by He, Qiang, Silliman, Brian R.

    Published in Current biology (07-10-2019)
    “…Coastal zones, the world’s most densely populated regions, are increasingly threatened by climate change stressors — rising and warming seas, intensifying…”
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    A large invasive consumer reduces coastal ecosystem resilience by disabling positive species interactions by Hensel, Marc J. S., Silliman, Brian R., van de Koppel, Johan, Hensel, Enie, Sharp, Sean J., Crotty, Sinead M., Byrnes, Jarrett E. K.

    Published in Nature communications (01-11-2021)
    “…Invasive consumers can cause extensive ecological damage to native communities but effects on ecosystem resilience are less understood. Here, we use drone…”
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    A Three-Stage Symbiosis Forms the Foundation of Seagrass Ecosystems by van der Heide, Tjisse, Govers, Laura L., de Fouw, Jimmy, Olff, Han, van der Geest, Matthijs, van Katwijk, Marieke M., Piersma, Theunis, van de Koppel, Johan, Silliman, Brian R., Smolders, Alfons J. P., van Gils, Jan A.

    “…Seagrasses evolved from terrestrial plants into marine foundation species around 100 million years ago. Their ecological success, however, remains a mystery…”
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    Artificial habitats host elevated densities of large reef-associated predators by Paxton, Avery B, Newton, Emily A, Adler, Alyssa M, Van Hoeck, Rebecca V, Iversen, Edwin S, Taylor, J. Christopher, Peterson, Charles H, Silliman, Brian R

    Published in PloS one (02-09-2020)
    “…Large predators play important ecological roles, yet many are disproportionately imperiled. In marine systems, artificial reefs are often deployed to restore…”
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    Shoreline Development Drives Invasion of Phragmites australis and the Loss of Plant Diversity on New England Salt Marshes by SILLIMAN, BRIAN R., BERTNESS, MARK D.

    Published in Conservation biology (01-10-2004)
    “…The reed Phragmites australis Cav. is aggressively invading salt marshes along the Atlantic Coast of North America. We examined the interactive role of habitat…”
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    Hierarchical Organization via a Facilitation Cascade in Intertidal Cordgrass Bed Communities by Altieri, Andrew H., Silliman, Brian R., Bertness, Mark D.

    Published in The American naturalist (01-02-2007)
    “…It has recently been proposed that many communities are structured by a hierarchy of interactions in which facilitation by foundation species is of primary…”
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