Getting into the groove: Opportunities to enhance the ecological value of hard coastal infrastructure using fine-scale surface textures

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 77, Issue , 2015, Pages 314-323

  Coombes, Martin A ^a   La Marca, Emanuela Claudia ^b   Naylor, Larissa A ^c   Thompson, Richard C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecological engineering; Ecosystem engineers; Intertidal ecology; Marine concrete; Reconciliation ecology; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONCRETES; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; PORTS AND HARBORS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TEXTURES;

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; COASTAL INFRASTRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEER; HABITAT HETEROGENEITIES; MARINE CONCRETE; SURFACE HETEROGENEITIES; URBANIZATION;

ECOLOGY;

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; COLONIZATION; CONCRETE STRUCTURE; CRUSTACEAN; ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; MACROBENTHOS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; ROCKY SHORE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; URBANIZATION;

THORACICA;

EID: 84922432482     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2015.01.032     Document Type: Article

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