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dc.contributor.authorBurden, Annette
dc.contributor.authorSmeaton, Craig
dc.contributor.authorAngus, Stuart
dc.contributor.authorGarbutt, Angus
dc.contributor.authorJones, Laurence
dc.contributor.authorLewis, Heather
dc.contributor.authorRees, Sue
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-07T15:30:03Z
dc.date.available2020-02-07T15:30:03Z
dc.date.issued2020-01-15
dc.identifier.citationBurden , 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.chben
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dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-4535-2555/work/67525916
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/19428
dc.description.abstractCoastal 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.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofMCCIP Science Review 2020en
dc.rightsCopyright © 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.chben
dc.subjectCoastal habitatsen
dc.subjectSaltmarshen
dc.subjectShingleen
dc.subjectSand dunesen
dc.subjectCliffsen
dc.subjectClimate changeen
dc.subjectSea level riseen
dc.subjectOceanographyen
dc.subjectEnvironmental Science (miscellaneous)en
dc.subjectGlobal and Planetary Changeen
dc.subject3rd-NDASen
dc.subjectSDG 13 - Climate Actionen
dc.subjectSDG 14 - Life Below Wateren
dc.subjectSDG 15 - Life on Landen
dc.titleImpacts of climate change on coastal habitats, relevant to the coastal and marine environment around the UKen
dc.typeJournal itemen
dc.contributor.sponsorNERCen
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dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Geography & Sustainable Developmenten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Environmental Change Research Groupen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Bell-Edwards Geographic Data Instituteen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Scottish Oceans Instituteen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.14465/2020.arc11.chb
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.grantnumberNE/R010846/1en


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