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Shadrin, N.V.; Mironov, S.S.; Ferat, T.A.. |
More than 70% of the beaches in the World are in decreasing stage during the past few decades, and the Black sea beaches are not exclusion. The paper gives a brief conceptual review of published and unpublished results of author’s long-term complicated study (1995-2010) in different areas of the Crimean coastline. Interconnections between marine communities and beach erosion are analyzed as well as some anthropogenic impacts on processes in beach area. Self-accelerating mechanism of beach erosion and marine communities degradation was suggested. Two interrelated components in the system “beach-sea” are crucial in regulating the balance of sand on the beach in our case - the coastal vegetation and benthic communities producing clamshells. Two stable state... |
Tipo: Journal Contribution |
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Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://10.0.0.194:8080/dspace/handle/99011/3847 |
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