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Thomas A. Schlacher
Researcher at University of the Sunshine Coast
Publications - 202
Citations - 11478
Thomas A. Schlacher is an academic researcher from University of the Sunshine Coast. The author has contributed to research in topics: Habitat & Seamount. The author has an hindex of 54, co-authored 196 publications receiving 9594 citations. Previous affiliations of Thomas A. Schlacher include University of Port Elizabeth & University of Notre Dame.
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Threats to sandy beach ecosystems: A review
Omar Defeo,Anton McLachlan,David S. Schoeman,Thomas A. Schlacher,Jenifer E. Dugan,Alan Jones,Mariano Lastra,Felicita Scapini +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a brief synopsis of the unique physical and ecological attributes of sandy beach ecosystems and review the main anthropogenic pressures acting on the world's single largest type of open shoreline.
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The ecology of seamounts: structure, function, and human impacts.
Malcolm R. Clark,Ashley A. Rowden,Thomas A. Schlacher,Alan Williams,Mireille Consalvey,Karen I. Stocks,Alex Rogers,Timothy D. O'Hara,Martin White,Timothy M. Shank,Jason M. Hall-Spencer +10 more
TL;DR: This review of seamount ecology addresses a number of key scientific issues concerning the structure and function of benthic communities, human impacts, and seamount management and conservation.
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Sandy beach ecosystems: key features, sampling issues, management challenges and climate change impacts
Thomas A. Schlacher,Dave S. Schoeman,Jenifer E. Dugan,Mariano Lastra,Alan Jones,Felicita Scapini,Anton McLachlan +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarise the salient features of sandy beaches as functional ecosystems in 50 ‘key statements’; these provide a succinct synopsis of the main structural and functional characteristics of these highly dynamic systems.
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Sandy beaches at the brink
Thomas A. Schlacher,Jenifer E. Dugan,Dave S. Schoeman,Mariano Lastra,Alan Jones,Felicita Scapini,Anton McLachlan,Omar Defeo +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify a number of critical research directions that are required to progress coastal management and conservation of sandy beach ecosystems and identify a consolidated body of ecological theory for these ecosystems.
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Impacts of bottom trawling on deep-coral ecosystems of seamounts are long-lasting
Franziska Althaus,Alan Williams,Thomas A. Schlacher,Rudy J. Kloser,Mark Green,Bruce Barker,Nicholas J. Bax,P. Brodie,Monika A. Schlacher-Hoenlinger +8 more
TL;DR: Differences in community structure in the trawled and untrawled seamounts were attributed to resistant species that survived initial impacts, others protected in natural refugia and early colonisers, and long-term persistence of trawling impacts on deep-water corals is consistent with their biological traits that make them particularly vulnerable.