- Title
- Past and future ecosystem change in the coastal zone
- Creator
- Gell, Peter
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Text; Conference proceedings; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/156023
- Identifier
- vital:11390
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/55/1/012001
- Identifier
- ISBN:1755-1307
- Abstract
- The coastal zone is in a constant state of flux. Long term records of change attest to high amplitude sea level changes. Relative stability though the Late Holocene has allowed for the evolution of barrier dune systems, estuaries and coastal lakes with associated plant and faunal associations. This evolution has been interspersed with changes in the balance between climate driven changes in outflow from catchments. These interactions have been considerably disturbed through the impacts of industrialised people who have diverted and consumed water and invested in infrastructure that has impacted on river flows and the tidal prism in estuaries. This has impacted their provisioning services to humans. It has also impacted their regulating services in that development along the coastline has impacted on the resilience of the littoral zone to absorb natural climate extremes. Looking from the past we can see the pathway to the future and more easily recognise the steps needed to avoid further coastal degradation. This will increasingly need to accommodate the impacts of future climate trends, increased climate extremes and rising seas. Coastal societies would do well to identify their long term pathway to adaptation to the challenges that lie ahead and plan to invest accordingly. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.; IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
- Publisher
- Institute of Physics Publishing
- Relation
- 2nd International Conference on Tropical and Coastal Region Eco Development 2016, ICTCRED 2016; Bali, Indonesia; 25th-27th October 2016; published in IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science Vol. 55, p. 1-8
- Rights
- Copyright © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. Content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence (
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Climate change; Estuaries; Hydroecology; Nutrients; Paleolimnology; Salinization; Sediments
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