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EDITORIAL article

Front. Mar. Sci.
Sec. Marine Ecosystem Ecology
Volume 11 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fmars.2024.1547177
This article is part of the Research Topic Coastal Rewilding as a Nature-Based Solution View all 4 articles

Editorial: "Coastal rewilding as a nature-based solution"

Provisionally accepted
Cintia Organo Quintana Cintia Organo Quintana 1*Vona Meleder Vona Meleder 2Ana I Sousa Ana I Sousa 3Evangelia Drakou Evangelia Drakou 4Daphne van der Wal Daphne van der Wal 5,6Dorte Krause-Jensen Dorte Krause-Jensen 7Vincent Andreu-Boussut Vincent Andreu-Boussut 8
  • 1 Department of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, Odense M, Denmark
  • 2 Institut des Substances et Organismes de la Mer, ISOMer, UR 2160, F-4000, Nantes, France
  • 3 Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, Department of Environment and Planning, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
  • 4 Geography Department, Harokopio University of Athens, El Venizelou 70, 16767, Kallithea, Greece
  • 5 Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
  • 6 Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Yerseke, Netherlands
  • 7 Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
  • 8 UMR Espaces et Sociétés 6590 CNRS, Le Mans University, Avenue Olivier Messiaen, 72085 Le Mans Cédex 9, Le Mans, France

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    Coastal and marine ecosystems provide a wide range of ecosystem services, including habitats for 24 rich biodiversity, improved water quality, coastal protection against erosion, carbon storage, and 25 cultural benefits such as recreation, aesthetics, and human well-being. Drawing from terrestrial 26 ecology, the concept of rewilding to degraded coastal and marine ecosystems has the potential to 27 address the interconnected crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. While the 28 understanding and implementation of rewilding in terrestrial systems is relatively advanced, "coastal 29 and marine rewilding", is still in its infancy (Cornerier 2024) We thank all contributing authors for joining this Research Topic. We hope that the papers will 85 inspire and contribute to the development of coastal rewilding approaches within the framework of 86 nature-based solutions. 87 88

    Keywords: restoration, Biodiversity, ecosystem functions, ecosystem services, Climate Change

    Received: 17 Dec 2024; Accepted: 23 Dec 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Quintana, Meleder, Sousa, Drakou, van der Wal, Krause-Jensen and Andreu-Boussut. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Cintia Organo Quintana, Department of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, Odense M, Denmark

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