Exploiting beach filling as an unaffordable experiment: Benthic intertidal impacts propagating upwards to shorebirds

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 338, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 205-221

  Peterson, Charles H ^a   Bishop, Melanie J ^b   Johnson, Galen A ^a   D'Anna, Linda M ^a   Manning, Lisa M ^c  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beach nourishment; Habitat function; Intertidal invertebrates; Sediment grain sizes; Shorebird use; Suppressed recovery

Indexed keywords

BEACH; BENTHOS; CRAB; EXPLOITATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; POLYCHAETE; WADER;

AMPHIPODA; CALIDRIS ALBA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EMERITA TALPOIDA; HAUSTORIIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; OCYPODIDAE; POLYCHAETA; SCOLELEPIS SQUAMATA;

EID: 33749534112     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2006.06.021     Document Type: Article

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