Monitoring human impacts on sandy shore ecosystems: A test of ghost crabs (Ocypode spp.) as biological indicators on an urban beach

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 152, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 413-424

  Lucrezi, Serena ^a   Schlacher, Thomas A ^a   Walker, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coastal management; Faunal indicators; Ghost crabs; Sandy beaches; Shore monitoring

Indexed keywords

COASTAL MANAGEMENT; FAUNAL INDICATORS; GHOST CRABS; SANDY BEACHES; SHORE MONITORING;

BEACHES; BIODIVERSITY; COASTAL ENGINEERING; ECOSYSTEMS; OCEAN HABITATS;

MONITORING;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOINDICATOR; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; CRAB; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HABITAT USE; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); INDICATOR ORGANISM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASHORE; URBAN AREA; WEATHER;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BATHING BEACHES; BRACHYURA; CITIES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; SILICON DIOXIDE; WEATHER;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; OCYPODE; OCYPODIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 63749104410     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-008-0326-2     Document Type: Article

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