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Impacts of climate change on coastal habitats, relevant to the coastal and marine environment around the UK
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dc.contributor.author | Burden, Annette | |
dc.contributor.author | Smeaton, Craig | |
dc.contributor.author | Angus, Stuart | |
dc.contributor.author | Garbutt, Angus | |
dc.contributor.author | Jones, Laurence | |
dc.contributor.author | Lewis, Heather | |
dc.contributor.author | Rees, Sue | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-02-07T15:30:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-02-07T15:30:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-01-15 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Burden , A , Smeaton , C , Angus , S , Garbutt , A , Jones , L , Lewis , H & Rees , S 2020 , ' Impacts of climate change on coastal habitats, relevant to the coastal and marine environment around the UK ' , MCCIP Science Review 2020 , pp. 228-255 . https://doi.org/10.14465/2020.arc11.chb | en |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 265750313 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: 8e218584-06db-4fc6-bd17-84d91416a733 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0003-4535-2555/work/67525916 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/19428 | |
dc.description.abstract | Coastal habitats are at risk from both direct (temperature, rainfall), and indirect (sea-level rise, coastal erosion) impacts due to a changing climate. Beyond the environmental impacts and ensuing habitat loss, the changing climate will have a significant societal impact to coastal communities ranging from health to livelihoods, as well as the loss of important ecosystem services such as coastal defence – particularly relevant with predicted increase in storminess. Vegetated coastal ecosystems sequester carbon – another ‘ecosystem service’ that could be disrupted due to climate change. There has been considerable recent attention to the potential role these habitats could play in climate mitigation, and also in transferring carbon across the land–sea interface. To understand the relative importance of these habitats within the global carbon cycle, coastal habitats need to be accounted for in national greenhouse gas inventories, and a true multidisciplinary catchment-to-coast approach to research is required. Management options exist that can reduce the immediate impacts of climate change, such as managed realignment and sediment recharge. Fixed landward coastal defences are becoming unsustainable and creating ‘coastal squeeze’, highlighting the need to work with natural processes to recreate more-natural shorelines where possible. | |
dc.format.extent | 28 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | MCCIP Science Review 2020 | en |
dc.rights | Copyright © 2020 the Author(s). This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at https://doi.org/10.14465/2020.arc11.chb | en |
dc.subject | Coastal habitats | en |
dc.subject | Saltmarsh | en |
dc.subject | Shingle | en |
dc.subject | Sand dunes | en |
dc.subject | Cliffs | en |
dc.subject | Climate change | en |
dc.subject | Sea level rise | en |
dc.subject | Oceanography | en |
dc.subject | Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | en |
dc.subject | Global and Planetary Change | en |
dc.subject | 3rd-NDAS | en |
dc.subject | SDG 13 - Climate Action | en |
dc.subject | SDG 14 - Life Below Water | en |
dc.subject | SDG 15 - Life on Land | en |
dc.title | Impacts of climate change on coastal habitats, relevant to the coastal and marine environment around the UK | en |
dc.type | Journal item | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | NERC | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Geography & Sustainable Development | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Environmental Change Research Group | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Bell-Edwards Geographic Data Institute | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Scottish Oceans Institute | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.14465/2020.arc11.chb | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | NE/R010846/1 | en |
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