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Living Seawalls: Eco-Engineering for Urban Marine Biodiversity with Prof. Melanie Bishop | EcolClips

EcolClips by Dr. Julian Schrader (Interviewer; Lecturer at Macquarie University) and Dr. Cornelia Sattler (Video production). In EcolClips we document and explain ecological theories, landmark experiments and classic ecology themes by scientists in all ecological disciplines. ------------------------------------------------------- Increasing urbanization is not only affecting biodiversity on land but also in our oceans. Marine urban structures such as seawalls, pilings, pontoons, and marinas disrupt, replace, and modify natural habitats, influencing marine biodiversity. Especially, the flat and featureless surfaces of marine constructions are unsuitable habitats for marine organisms, offering very few refuges. To counteract this trend, scientists and industrial designers have founded The Living Seawalls project. The project combines engineering and ecological concepts to improve marine structures for the benefit of marine biodiversity. The team designed panels that resemble habitat features of natural shorelines that can be attached to new or existing artificial surfaces, providing a habitat for the colonization and growth of seaweed, shellfish, and other marine life. To learn more about the Living Seawalls project, we talked to co-founder Prof. Melanie Bishop from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Melanie is a marine ecologist focused on how estuarine and coastal ecosystems operate and respond to change. She is especially passionate about creating habitat and preserving native biodiversity in damaged seascapes through the development and assessment of engineering interventions. -------------------------------------------------------------- Credit: Footage by University of New South Wales indicated with UNSW Thumbnail image by Alex Goad Selected Paper: Bishop MJ, Vozzo ML, Mayer-Pinto M, Dafforn KA. 2022. Complexity–biodiversity relationships on marine urban structures: reintroducing habitat heterogeneity through eco-engineering. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 377:20210393. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0393 Bugnot AB, Mayer-Pinto M, Airoldi L, Heery EC, Johnston EL, Critchley LP, Strain EM, Morris RL, Loke LH, Bishop MJ, Sheehan EV, Coleman RA, Dafforn KA. 2021. Current and projected global extent of marine built structures. Nature Sustainability 4(1):33-41. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-00... Strain EM, Steinberg PD, Vozzo ML, Johnston EL, 41 others and Bishop MJ. 2021. A global analysis of complexity–biodiversity relationships on marine artificial structures. Global Ecol Biogeogr 30(1):140-53. Vozzo ML, Mayer-Pinto M, Bishop MJ, Cumbo VR, Bugnot AB, Dafforn KA, Johnston EL, Steinberg PD, Strain EM. 2021. Making seawalls multifunctional: The positive effects of seeded bivalves and habitat structure on species diversity and filtration rates. Marine Environmental Research. 165:105243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2... Strain EM, Olabarria C, Mayer‐Pinto M, Cumbo V, Morris RL, Bugnot AB, Dafforn KA, Heery E, Firth LB, Brooks PR, Bishop MJ. 2018. Eco‐engineering urban infrastructure for marine and coastal biodiversity: which interventions have the greatest ecological benefit? Journal of Applied Ecology 55(1):426-41. The Living Seawalls Project website: https://www.livingseawalls.com.au/ ----------------------------------------------------- #marinebiodiversity #urbanisation #ecology