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By J. Patrick Doody (auth.)

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ISBN-13: 9781402046032

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Coastal habitats give you the hyperlink among the land and the ocean. they're dynamic, mix to shape ecosystems of serious complexity and supply major components for flora and fauna. Their landscapes are valuable by means of viewers, painters and musicians. additionally they supply destinations for major fiscal task and are in detail sure up with fisheries, delivering nutrition and guard for a few species of commercially exploited fish shares. The habitats themselves supply a buffer to tides and wave motion, that may be quite very important in components the place relative sea point is emerging and through hurricane classes. handling those resources within the face of constant strain from human populations on a sustainable foundation is an important activity.

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This has important implications for the sustainability to the defences especially on coasts where sea levels are rising relative to the land (see Chapter 10). Figure 13 The main factors causing saltmarsh loss. 1 25 Saltmarshes, other Coastal Wetlands and Mosquitoes Coastal wetlands (saltmarshes and fens) harbour many animals, including mosquitoes that are the vectors of disease, amongst which malaria is the most widespread. Deforestation and erosion of soils in the hinterland help to create vast coastal wetlands, such as those prevalent in the deltas of the Mediterranean.

4 Habitat Loss and Nature Conservation in the UK 39 Figure 20 Northey Island as shown on the Tithe Map of 1840 Figure 21 Gain in saltmarsh (S) following uncontrolled breaches in the sea walls in 1897, at Northey Island in the Blackwater Estuary, Essex. The map shows the areas of saltmarsh loss (dark grey), which occur along the creeks and within the body of the saltmarsh (from Burd 1992) 40 3 Nature Conservation 25 species, including the rare Shrubby Sea-blite (Suaeda vera) and other recognisable saltmarsh communities, forming mosaics with the pioneer marsh (Dagley 1995).

By the late 1930s, the hay market had all but ceased because of fossil-fuel technology (Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History, undated). Today the practice appears to have all but disappeared in both Europe and North America, except for a few isolated places such as New England where farmers have been ‘haying’ some saltmarshes for over 300 years (Ludlam et al. 2002). It still takes place on a large scale (over 400 ha regularly) throughout Plum Island Sound, northeastern Massachusetts (Williams et al.

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