To restore coastal marine areas, we need to work across multiple habitats simultaneously – PNAS

California Coastal National Monument at Trinidad (courtesy of the Bureau of Land Management CC BY 2.0 via Flicker).

Restoration of coastal marine habitats—often conducted under the umbrella of “nature-based solutions”—is one of the key actions underpinning global intergovernmental agreements, including the Paris Agreement and the 2021–2030 United Nations (UN) Decade of Restoration. To achieve global biodiversity and restoration targets…we need methods that accelerate and scale up restoration activities in size and impact. Part of the solution is cross-habitat facilitation—positive interactions that occur when processes generated in one habitat benefit another…