We're pleased to announce publication of the companion paper to ‘Coastal tectonics and habitat squeeze’ in the international journal Science of the Total Environment.
dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141241
The findings illustrate opportunities
for managing risks to coastal vegetation types such as saltmarsh which are threatened by sea-level rise.
The conservation of these characteristic ecosystems is of global importance for the sequestration
and storage of blue carbon alongside many other ecosystem services that include
considerable habitat values for characteristic wildlife such as waders and shorebirds
in the Christchurch case.
In summarising results from the study we derived four key principles for building the resilience of coastal ecosystems that will be of interest to coastal managers worldwide.