Seascape Ecology
The Landscape Ecology of the Coastal Zone
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33178/Keywords:
coastal, ecology, landscapeAbstract
The 440,000km belt that girdles the world's oceans (Komar, 1976) is, arguably, the single most important region of the earth’s surface. It represents a unique interface between the three major global environments, namely the marine, the terrestrial and the aeolian respectively. Across and along the coastal zone, major exchanges of energy, matter and organisms occur. The coast is also of vital importance to Man. Throughout history, the sea has provided food and defence, cultural and individual mobility and, for many maritime peoples, an important aesthetic and spiritual foundation upon which civilisations could be built.
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