Mitigating against the loss of species by adding artificial intertidal pools to existing seawalls

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 497, Issue , 2014, Pages 119-129

  Browne, Mark Anthony ^a,b   Chapman, M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Climatic change; Coastal squeeze; Seawall; Succession; Surrogate habitat; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893763486     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10596     Document Type: Article

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