Ecologically informed engineering reduces loss of intertidal biodiversity on artificial shorelines

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 8204-8207

  Browne, Mark A ^a,b   Chapman, M Gee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC CHANGES; COASTAL CITIES; ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE; NATURAL PROCESS; ROCKY SHORE; SOFT-SEDIMENT HABITATS;

ANIMALS; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; ENGINEERING; LAKES; OFFSHORE STRUCTURES;

WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

BIODIVERSITY; BUILDING CONSTRUCTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EROSION CONTROL; FLOODING; HABITAT LOSS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; ROCKY SHORE; SHORELINE; URBANIZATION;

ALGA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOENGINEERING; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODING; HABITAT; NONHUMAN; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; URBANIZATION;

AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; CANADA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENGINEERING; SEAWATER; TIDAL WAVES;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA;

EID: 80053413461     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es201924b     Document Type: Article

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