Overview
- Focuses on coastal terrestrial ecosystems of the German North and Baltic Sea
- Describes the responses and adaptations of plants and animals on the future temperature and sea level increase
- Provides background and measures for coastal planning
Part of the book series: Ecological Studies (ECOLSTUD, volume 245)
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Table of contents (28 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction and Description of Study Area
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Front Matter
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Historical and Future Changes of the Dune and Salt Marsh Fauna
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Experimental Assessments of the Effects of Climate Change on Habitats and Their Organisms
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Keywords
- Arthropoda
- Baltic Sea
- Carabidae
- Carabid Beetles
- Climate Change
- Coastal Ecosystems
- Coastal Planning
- Coastal Vegetation
- Elevation Gradients in Salt Marshes
- Erosion
- Impacts of Temperature on Plants and Animals
- North Sea
- Plant and Animal Distribution Changes
- Reactions of Coastal Arthropods After De-embankment
- Reactions of Coastal Ecosystems After De-embankment
- Sedimentation
- Spiders
About this book
This book focuses on the coastal terrestrial ecosystems of the German North and Baltic Sea. It describes the reactions of plants and animals (i.e. spiders, carabid beetles, bees and nematodes) on the future temperature and sea level increase. The combination of field and experimental studies is unique for Europe and for many parts of the world. It not only studies the actual elevation gradients and the climatic and saline gradients fromWest to East, but also the historical changes to document processes at coastal ecosystems that were already passed. In contrast to many books that studied the marine processes with similar backgrounds, this book concerns the terrestrial coastal ecosystems that were overall rarely studied and, in particular, never studied under this specific viewpoint.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Prof. Ulrich Irmler is retired Professor of the Institute of Ecosystem Research at the University of Kiel, Germany. His research focused on soil biology, entomology, and nature conservation. He was involved in several research projects on the salt marshes of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein and the beaches of Schleswig-Holstein. Furthermore, his research interests included tropical ecology (Brazil), as well as forest, grassland, and organic farming ecology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Terrestrial Coastal Ecosystems in Germany and Climate Change
Editors: Dietrich Mossakowski, Ulrich Irmler
Series Title: Ecological Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12539-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12538-6Published: 04 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12541-6Published: 04 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-12539-3Published: 02 March 2023
Series ISSN: 0070-8356
Series E-ISSN: 2196-971X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 480
Number of Illustrations: 70 b/w illustrations, 85 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ecology, Ecosystems, Community & Population Ecology, Environmental Management, Zoology, Conservation Biology/Ecology