Sandy beaches at the brink

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 556-560

  Schlacher, Thomas A ^a   Dugan, Jenifer ^b   Schoeman, Dave S ^c   Lastra, Mariano ^d   Jones, Alan ^e   Scapini, Felicita ^f   McLachlan, Anton ^g   Defeo, Omar ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^e AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^g SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^h Unidad en Desarrollo de Ciencias del Mar   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Coastal conservation; Global change; Human impacts; Sandy beaches

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; SHORELINE;

EID: 34547871633     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00363.x     Document Type: Article

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