Simon P. G. Hoggart

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide insight in the conditions under which ecosystems may be valuable for coastal protection, discuss which might be the most promising intertidal ecosystems for this task and identify knowledge gaps that currently hamper application and hence need attention from the scientific community.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the major impacts coastal defence structures have on surrounding environments and recent experiments informing building coastal defences in a more ecologically sustainable manner, and outline guidelines and recommendations to provide multiple ecosystem services while maintaining engineering efficacy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the epibiotic communities associated with artificial coastal defence structures and natural habitats to ask the following questions: (1) is species richness on emergent substrata greater in natural than artificial habitats and is the magnitude of this difference greater at mid than upper tidal levels; (2) is the species richness greater in rock pools than emergent substrate, and (3) in artificial habitats, is a species richness in rock pool greater in mid-than upper-tide levels?

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the critical drivers that determine the persistence and maintenance of sandy coastal habitats around Europe's coastline, taking particular interest in their close link with the biological communities that inhabit them.

TL;DR: The exploratory tool allows the users to perform an integrated coastal risk assessment, to analyse the effects of different combinations of engineering, social, economic and ecologically based mitigation options, across short, medium and long-term scenarios.