Urbanisation alters processing of marine carrion on sandy beaches

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 119, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-8

  Huijbers, Chantal M ^a,b   Schlacher, Thomas A ^b   Schoeman, Dave S ^b   Weston, Michael A ^c   Connolly, Rod M ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Food web subsidies; Human impacts; Raptors; Scavenging; Shoreline management

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; LAND USE; MAMMALS; REGIONAL PLANNING; SCAVENGING; URBAN GROWTH;

COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES; FOOD WEBS; HUMAN IMPACT; LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT; RAPTORS; SHORELINE MANAGEMENT;

BEACHES;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEACH; CANID; CARRION; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DUNE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FELID; FISH; FOOD WEB; GUILD STRUCTURE; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; METROPOLITAN AREA; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; RAPTOR; SCAVENGER; SCAVENGING (FEEDING); SHORELINE; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBANIZATION;

AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; MAMMALIA; RAPTORES; VERTEBRATA; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 84883627650     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2013.06.004     Document Type: Article

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