Daylight robbery: how human-built structures leave coastal ecosystems in the shadows
- Written by Martino Malerba, Postdoctoral Fellow, Monash University
Human-built structures are home to a wide variety of creatures.
About half of the coastline of Europe, the United States and Australasia is modified by artificial structures. In newly published research, we identified a new effect of marine urbanisation that has so far gone unrecognised.
When we build marinas, ports, jetties and coastal defences,...
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