Coastal Vertebrate Exposure to Predicted Habitat Changes Due to Sea Level Rise

Environmental Management

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1528-1537

  Hunter, Elizabeth A ^a   Nibbelink, Nathan P ^a   Alexander, Clark R ^b   Barrett, Kyle ^c   Mengak, Lara F ^a   Guy, Rachel K ^a   Moore, Clinton T ^a   Cooper, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b SKIDAWAY INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (United States)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal ecosystems; Endangered species; Habitat loss; Salt marsh; Sea level rise; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BEACHES; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; SEA LEVEL; WETLANDS;

COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT LOSS; SALT MARSHES; SEA LEVEL RISE; VULNERABILITY;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIRD; COASTAL ZONE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT LOSS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PRIORITIZATION; REFUGE; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TURTLE; VULNERABILITY;

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; COASTAL WATERS; FORAGING; HABITAT; LAND USE; NESTING; NONHUMAN; RAPTOR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; REPTILE; SALT MARSH; SEA; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEASHORE; SHOREBIRD; SONGBIRD; SPARROW; TERRAPIN; VERTEBRATE; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEORGIA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; WETLAND;

GEORGIA; UNITED STATES;

LARIDAE; MALACLEMYS; PASSERIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GEORGIA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; VERTEBRATES; WETLANDS;

EID: 84945349268     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-015-0580-3     Document Type: Article

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