North Atlantic coastal lagoons: conservation, management and research challenges in the 21st century
Coastal lagoons provide socio-economically valuable ecosystem services and are important habitats for conservation. Rare around North Atlantic coastlines, they are increasingly threatened by climatic and anthropogenic stressors. Despite repeated calls at the end of the twentieth century for further...
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ftunivbrighton:oai:eprints.brighton.ac.uk:11171 2023-05-15T17:27:49+02:00 North Atlantic coastal lagoons: conservation, management and research challenges in the 21st century Beer, Nicola A. Joyce, Christopher 2013-01-01 text http://eprints.brighton.ac.uk/11171/ http://eprints.brighton.ac.uk/11171/1/Beer%20and%20Joyce%202012%20offprint.pdf http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10750-012-1325-4 en eng Springer Verlag http://eprints.brighton.ac.uk/11171/1/Beer%20and%20Joyce%202012%20offprint.pdf Beer, Nicola A. and Joyce, Christopher (2013) North Atlantic coastal lagoons: conservation, management and research challenges in the 21st century Hydrobiologia, 701 (1). pp. 1-11. ISSN 0018-8158 F851 Applied Environmental Sciences Journal article PeerReviewed 2013 ftunivbrighton 2018-12-03T19:52:45Z Coastal lagoons provide socio-economically valuable ecosystem services and are important habitats for conservation. Rare around North Atlantic coastlines, they are increasingly threatened by climatic and anthropogenic stressors. Despite repeated calls at the end of the twentieth century for further research to be urgently undertaken to underpin management of these habitats and the rare, specialist species they support, progress on North Atlantic lagoons has apparently lagged behind other European lagoon types. In the context of increasing pressure on coastal resources, we summarise current ecological knowledge and consider contemporary issues, concepts and techniques to identify the conservation, management and research challenges that need to be addressed if North Atlantic lagoons are to be safeguarded and sustainably managed in the twenty-first century. Priority issues relate to the lack of scientific understanding of lagoon functioning and variability, and include the need for reliable identification and classification of the resource, assessing responses to anthropogenic impacts (notably climate change) and applying ecosystem-specific management and monitoring. Key recommendations are (i) specialised surveys that recognise the inherent dynamism of the environment and facilitate a more accurate description of the lagoonal resource and its ecology, and (ii) an ecocomplex approach for conservation and management that addresses coastal habitat connectivity. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic UBR (University of Brighton Repository) |
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Coastal lagoons provide socio-economically valuable ecosystem services and are important habitats for conservation. Rare around North Atlantic coastlines, they are increasingly threatened by climatic and anthropogenic stressors. Despite repeated calls at the end of the twentieth century for further research to be urgently undertaken to underpin management of these habitats and the rare, specialist species they support, progress on North Atlantic lagoons has apparently lagged behind other European lagoon types. In the context of increasing pressure on coastal resources, we summarise current ecological knowledge and consider contemporary issues, concepts and techniques to identify the conservation, management and research challenges that need to be addressed if North Atlantic lagoons are to be safeguarded and sustainably managed in the twenty-first century. Priority issues relate to the lack of scientific understanding of lagoon functioning and variability, and include the need for reliable identification and classification of the resource, assessing responses to anthropogenic impacts (notably climate change) and applying ecosystem-specific management and monitoring. Key recommendations are (i) specialised surveys that recognise the inherent dynamism of the environment and facilitate a more accurate description of the lagoonal resource and its ecology, and (ii) an ecocomplex approach for conservation and management that addresses coastal habitat connectivity. |
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North Atlantic coastal lagoons: conservation, management and research challenges in the 21st century |
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North Atlantic coastal lagoons: conservation, management and research challenges in the 21st century |
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North Atlantic coastal lagoons: conservation, management and research challenges in the 21st century |
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North Atlantic coastal lagoons: conservation, management and research challenges in the 21st century |
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North Atlantic coastal lagoons: conservation, management and research challenges in the 21st century |
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north atlantic coastal lagoons: conservation, management and research challenges in the 21st century |
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http://eprints.brighton.ac.uk/11171/ http://eprints.brighton.ac.uk/11171/1/Beer%20and%20Joyce%202012%20offprint.pdf http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10750-012-1325-4 |
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http://eprints.brighton.ac.uk/11171/1/Beer%20and%20Joyce%202012%20offprint.pdf Beer, Nicola A. and Joyce, Christopher (2013) North Atlantic coastal lagoons: conservation, management and research challenges in the 21st century Hydrobiologia, 701 (1). pp. 1-11. ISSN 0018-8158 |
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