Editorial: Coastal rewilding as a nature-based solution

Coastal and marine ecosystems provide a wide range of ecosystem services, including habitats for rich biodiversity, improved water quality, coastal protection against erosion, carbon storage, and cultural benefits such as recreation, aesthetics, and human well-being.
Drawing from terrestrial ecology, the concept of rewilding to degraded coastal and marine ecosystems has the potential to address the interconnected crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. While the understanding and implementation of rewilding in terrestrial systems is relatively advanced, “coastal and marine rewilding”, is still in its infancy (Cornerier, 2024).

C. O. Quintana, V. Méléder, A. I. Sousa, E. G. Drakou, D. van der Wal, D. Krause-Jensen, V. Andreu-Boussut

10.3389/fmars.2024.1547177