Climate-change impacts on sandy-beach biota: Crossing a line in the sand

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2383-2392

  Schoeman, David S ^a   Schlacher, Thomas A ^a   Defeo, Omar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

^b Unidad en Desarrollo de Ciencias del Mar   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Beach fauna; Climate change; Climate change detection; Coastal ecology; Marine ecology; Mass mortality; Range shift

Indexed keywords

BEACH; BIOTA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COASTAL ZONE; DETECTION METHOD; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FAUNA; MORTALITY;

SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMAL; BIOTA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; INVERTEBRATE; NESTING; SOUTH AMERICA; SWIMMING; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; BATHING BEACHES; BIOTA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; INVERTEBRATES; NESTING BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AMERICA; TURTLES;

EID: 84903715299     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12505     Document Type: Article

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