- Title
- Human-mediated drivers of change—impacts on coastal ecosystems and marine biota of South Africa
- Creator
- Mead, A, Griffiths, Charles L, Branch, George M, McQuaid, Christopher D, Blamey, L K, Bolton, J J, Anderson, R J, Dufois, Francois, Rouault, M, Froneman, P William, Whitfield, Alan K, Harris, L R, Nel, R, Pillay, D, Adams, Janine B
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/480871
- Identifier
- vital:78489
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.2989/1814232X.2013.830147
- Description
- Coastal ecosystems are highly vulnerable to human-mediated drivers of global change because they are located at the land–ocean interface and often host centres of urbanisation and development. The South African coastline comprises several distinct coastal ecoregions that support a wide range of coastal (inshore) ecosystems, including rocky, sandy and mixed shores, kelp beds, estuaries and seagrass communities. A growing body of evidence indicates that local air and sea temperatures, wind patterns, ocean current speed and upwelling regimes are all being affected by human-mediated climate change. In addition, anthropogenic activities, such as shipping (introducing coastal bioinvasives), exploitation of coastal marine resources, industry (releasing pollutants) and urban development, act synergistically with climate change to place pressure on coastal ecosystems and their biota. The aim of this review was primarily to synthesise and update research into causes of direct and indirect human-mediated global change and their effects on South African coastal systems. It incorporates both historic and the latest regional research on climate change and anthropogenic threats across the ecosystems listed above, much of which was supported by the South African Network for Coastal and Oceanic Research (SANCOR), specifically the SEAChange programme in recent years.
- Format
- 22 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- African Journal of Marine Science, Mead, A., Griffiths, C.L., Branch, G.M., McQuaid, C.D., Blamey, L.K., Bolton, J.J., Anderson, R.J., Dufois, F., Rouault, M., Froneman, P.W. and Whitfield, A.K., 2013. Human-mediated drivers of change—impacts on coastal ecosystems and marine biota of South Africa. African Journal of Marine Science, 35(3), pp.403-425, African Journal of Marine Science volume 35 number 3 403 425 2013 1814-2338
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