Effects of beach nourishment and groynes building on population and community descriptors of mobile arthropodofauna

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 167-178

  Fanini, Lucia ^a   Marchetti, Giovanni Maria ^a   Scapini, Felicita ^a   Defeo, Omar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Arthropodofauna diversity; Beach nourishment; Human impact; Natural park; Talitrus saltator

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; COASTAL ZONES; EROSION; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN HABITATS; PARKS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; POPULATION STATISTICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHORE PROTECTION; SOIL MECHANICS;

BEACH NOURISHMENT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; DESCRIPTORS; ELSEVIER (CO); GENERALIZED LINEAR MODELS; GRAIN SIZES; GROYNES; HUMAN ACTIONS; IN LINE; MACRO FAUNA; NATURAL PARK; ORGANIZATIONAL LEVELS; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PITFALL TRAPPING; POPULATION LEVELS; QUALITY CHANGES; SANDY BEACHES; SEASONAL DYNAMICS; SUMMER SEASON; TALITRUS SALTATOR; TUSCANY , ITALY; WINTER SEASONS;

BEACHES;

ABUNDANCE; AMPHIPOD; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARTHROPOD; BEACH EROSION; BEACH NOURISHMENT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIVERSITY INDEX; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GROIN; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PROTECTED AREA; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SAN ROSSORE-MIGLIARINO-MASSACIUCCOLI REGIONAL PARK; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TUSCANY;

ARTHROPODA; CRUSTACEA; TALITRUS SALTATOR;

EID: 48149087256     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2008.03.004     Document Type: Article

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