Climate Change 2019

Climate Change and Coastal Stressors

Environmental Change and Coastal Stressors has been examining the impacts of waterfront stressors on near shore territories and organic groups for quite a long while. These basic near shore biological communities fill in as nursery and sustaining justification for some nekton and invertebrate species and given their nearness to upland exercises, these communities may be particularly sensitive to changes in land use and developmental pressures. Coastal Stressors include Conversion of land to commercial or residential uses, Shoreline hardening, dredging/filling and associated loss of intertidal habitat, Problems associated with development, such as storm water runoff, vegetation removal, low dissolved oxygen and harmful algal blooms, and Degradation of ecosystems from excess nutrients, sediments and contaminants