Impacts of off-road vehicles (ORVs) on burrow architecture of ghost crabs (Genus Ocypode) on sandy beaches

Environmental Management

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1352-1362

  Lucrezi, Serena ^a   Schlacher, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

Author keywords

Environmental impacts; Human recreation; Indirect effects; Invertebrates; Sandy shores

Indexed keywords

AUSTRAL SPRING; CHRISTMAS; DATA SUPPORT; EASTERN AUSTRALIA; HEAVY TRAFFICS; HUMAN RECREATION; INDIRECT EFFECTS; RECREATIONAL BEACHES; SANDY BEACH; TRAFFIC PERIODS;

ANIMALS; ARCHITECTURE; AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; BEACHES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ROADS AND STREETS; VEHICLES;

OFF ROAD VEHICLES;

BEACH; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BURROW; CRAB; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; ROAD TRANSPORT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BURROWING SPECIES; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); MOTOR VEHICLE; NONHUMAN; OCYPODE; RECREATION; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BATHING BEACHES; BRACHYURA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; HUMANS; RECREATION; TRANSPORTATION;

AUSTRALIA;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; OCYPODE; OCYPODIDAE;

EID: 77955583613     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-010-9491-5     Document Type: Article

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