What sight is more beautiful than a high-energy beach facing lines of rolling white breakers? What battleground is more ferocious than where waves and sand meet? What environment could be more exciting to study than this sandy interface between sea and land? And yet how much do we know about sandy beaches? Open sandy beaches are amongst the most neglected fields of scientific study in the coastal environment. This situation exists despite their great extent along most temperate and tropical coastlines and their value as recreational areas and buffer zones against the sea. The traditional oceanographer does not venture into the surf zone while the terrestrial ecologist stops short at the high water mark. Only a few coastal engineers have grappled with the problem of sand and sediment movement as it influences their construction of harbours and pipelines. The marine biologist on the other hand has regarded estuaries, coral reefs and rocky shores, obviously teeming with life, as more fruitful areas for study than the apparently poor animal life on sandy beaches. Sandy beaches have therefore tended to become a scientific no man's land. Over the last decade this situation has begun to improve. Recent work on high-energy beaches has revealed that they may in fact be rich and productive and fertile areas for study. It has even been suggested that beaches and their adjacent surf zones may constitute viable marine ecosystems.

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International Symposium on Sandy Beaches

McLachlan, A; Erasmus, T

W. Junk ; Distributors for the U.S. and Canada, Kluwer Boston

Springer Science + Business Media BV

Springer Verlag

Developments in hydrobiology, 19, The Hague ; Boston : Hingham, MA, USA, 1983

Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1983, 2011

Developments in hydrobiology, 19, Dordrecht, 1983

Springer Nature, Dordrecht, 2013

Netherlands, Netherlands

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Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Introduction....Pages 1-1
Front Matter....Pages 3-3
Physical Aspects of Sandy Beaches — A Review....Pages 5-44
Sediment Reworking on Sandy Beaches....Pages 45-61
Beach Changes on Coasts with Different Wave Climates....Pages 63-85
Provenance of Beach Sediments in South-Eastern Australia....Pages 87-95
Properties of Logarithmic Spiral Beaches with Particular Reference to Algoa Bay....Pages 97-113
Beach and Nearshore Habitats as a Function of Internal Geometry, Primary Sedimentary Structures and Grain Size....Pages 115-132
Physical Variability of Sandy Beaches....Pages 133-144
Sediments and Structures in Beach-Nearshore Environments, South East Australia....Pages 145-155
A Theoretical Model of Surf Zone Circulation and Diatom Growth....Pages 157-167
Holocene Coastal Development in the NW Part of the Netherlands....Pages 169-175
Wave-Generated Water Flow through a Porous Sea Bed....Pages 177-189
Sedimentary Aspects of the Mvumase Project....Pages 191-197
Physical Aspects of Sandy Beaches — Workshop Report....Pages 199-200
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
The Chemistry of Sandy Beach Ecosystems — A Review....Pages 203-224
Nutrient Cycling in Sandy Beaches....Pages 225-233
The Effect of Meiofauna and Bacteria on Nutrient Cycles in Sandy Beaches....Pages 235-247
Carbon Flow and Nutrient Regeneration from the Decomposition of Macrophyte Debris in a Sandy Beach Microcosm....Pages 249-262
The Sandy Beach Area of Kiel Fjord and Kiel Bight (Western Baltic Sea) — A Structural Analysis of a Shallow Water Ecosystem....Pages 263-270
Fouling of the Sandy Beaches of Nahant Bay (Massachusetts, USA) by an Abnormal Free-Living Form of the Macroalga Pilayella Littoralis (Phaeophyta). I. Habitat Characteristics....Pages 271-284
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
Fouling of the Sandy Beaches of Nahant Bay (Massachusetts, USA) by an Abnormal Free-Living Form of the Macroalga Pilayella Littoralis (L.) Kjellm. (Phaeophyta). II. Population Characteristics....Pages 285-295
Effects of Fresh Water and of Pollution from a Marine Oil Refinery on the Fauna of a Sandy Beach....Pages 297-301
Donax Serra and Bullia Rhodostoma : Possible Bioindicators of Trace Metal Pollution of Sandy Beaches, with Particular Reference to the South-Eastern Cape....Pages 303-314
Sandy Beaches as Ecosystems : Chemical Aspects — Workshop Report....Pages 315-317
Front Matter....Pages 319-319
Sandy Beach Ecology — A Review....Pages 321-380
The Role of Phytoplankton in Surf Ecosystems....Pages 381-389
Factors Affecting the Distribution of Organisms in the Intertidal Zones of Sandy Beaches....Pages 391-403
Dynamic Zonation of Staphylinoid Beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) on a Sandy Beach in East Africa....Pages 405-412
A Preliminary Account of the Ecology of Sandy Beaches in Southern Brazil....Pages 413-419
Selective Microhabitat Colonization by Interstitial Meiofauna as a Function of Grain Size....Pages 421-431
Two Graphical Display Methods for Ecological Data Matrices....Pages 433-439
Ecological Characteristics of Sandy Beaches in the Southern California Bight....Pages 441-447
Ecology of Beach and Surf-Zone Mysid Shrimps in the Eastern Cape, South Africa....Pages 449-460
Community Structure of Intertidal Sandy Beaches in New South Wales, Australia....Pages 461-472
The Species-Area Relationship on a Sandy Beach....Pages 473-479
Interactions Between Coastal Plankton and Sand Mussels along the Cape Coast, South Africa....Pages 481-500
The Impact of Surf-Zone Fish Communities on Faunal Assemblages Associated with Sandy Beaches....Pages 501-506
Ecological Structure and Energy Requirements of the Sandy Beach Avifauna of Southern Africa....Pages 507-521
Sub-Tidal Sandy Beach Trophic Structure in the Area of Punta Moron, Venezuela....Pages 523-528
Food Web in the Surf Zone of an Exposed Sandy Beach along the Mid-Atlantic Coast of the United States....Pages 529-538
Front Matter....Pages 319-319
The Ecology of Sandy Beaches in the Eastern Cape, South Africa....Pages 539-546
Kelp Wrack and the Flow of Energy through a Sandy Beach Ecosystem....Pages 547-556
The Fauna Associated with Kelp Stranded on a Sandy Beach....Pages 557-568
Sandy Beach Ecology — Workshop Report....Pages 569-572
Front Matter....Pages 573-573
The Ecophysiology of Sandy Beach Animals — A Partial Review....Pages 575-605
The Biology of the Genus Donax ....Pages 607-635
Consumption, Assimilation and Energy Balance in the Three-Spot Swimming Crab, Ovalipes Punctatus (de Haan) (Crustacea; Brachyura)....Pages 637-642
Population Ecology and Biology of Dotilla Sulcata (Crustacea, Ocypodidae) Typical for Sandy Beaches of the Red Sea....Pages 643-654
Ecology of the Sandy Beach Gastropod Mazatlania Aciculata in Quizandal (Carabobo, Venezuela)....Pages 655-660
Production Ecology of Haustorius Canadensis (Amphipoda: Haustoriidae) in Southern Maine....Pages 661-667
Behavioural and Physiological Responses of a Burrowing Bivalve to Stress....Pages 669-673
Some Aspects of the Ecophysiology of Scaevola Thunbergii , a Subtropical Coastal Dune Pioneer....Pages 675-685
Energetic Values in Interstitial Isopods and Amphipods from Sandy Beaches as a Function of Body Size and Season (Western Mediterranean)....Pages 687-692
A Synopsis of Community Respiration Studies on Exposed Sandy Beaches....Pages 693-698
Sandy Beach Ecophysiology — Workshop Report....Pages 699-700
Management of Sandy Coastlines — Report on Review and Workshop....Pages 703-708
Factors Influencing Beach Erosion and Accretion: A Global Review....Pages 709-717
Accidental Formation and Subsequent Disappearance of a Contaminated Beach....Pages 719-726
Monitoring Beach and Dune Advancement and Vegetation Changes 1937 — 1977 at the Farm Twinstreams, Mtunzini, Natal, South Africa....Pages 727-732
Management for Survival — A Review of the Plant Ecology and Protection of the ‘Machair’ Beaches of North-West Scotland....Pages 733-740
Front Matter....Pages 741-741
MUD Accumulation of a Microtidal Open Ocean Beach....Pages 743-744
Beach and River-Mouth Processes, Natal Coast, South Africa....Pages 744-745
Beach Barrier Sedimentation, Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana....Pages 745-746
Bacteria-Meiofauna Relationships in a Subantartic Sand Beach (Kerguelen)....Pages 746-747
Community Structure of Ichthyoplankton Off Sandy Beaches in Algoa Bay, South Africa....Pages 747-747
Features of Some Sandy Estuary Systems....Pages 747-748
Variation in Sanderling Flock Size and Structure on a Southwest Cape Sandy Beach....Pages 748-749
The Importance of Non-Teleost Fishes (Elasmobranchs) in the Surf Zone with Special Reference to Rhinobatos annulatus ....Pages 749-749
Artificial Sandy Beaches and Environmental Impacts due to Dumping of Copper Mine Tailings at Chanaral Area, Chile....Pages 749-750
Preliminary Investigation of Surf Zone Phytoplankton Blooms Occurring Off the Sundays River Beach in Algoa Bay....Pages 750-750
Factors Influencing the Discontinuous Distribution of the Lugworm - Arenicola marina (L.) - on the Beach of the North Sea (Belgium)....Pages 751-751
Ecophysiologycal Aspects of the Genus Donax l. Environmental Factors Correlated with Absolute and Relative Densities....Pages 751-752
Ecophysiologycal Aspects of the Genus Donax II. Filtration Rate in Donax denticulatus L.....Pages 752-752
The Gamtoos - An Example of Beach/Estuary Interaction....Pages 753-753
The Implications of Resource Partitioning for the Structure of a Sand-Beach Meiofauna Community....Pages 753-754
Dune: A Geobotanical Model of Foredune Development....Pages 754-755
Some Aspects of Driftsand Reclamation in the Republic of South Africa....Pages 755-756
The Sandy Haifa Acre Plain as a Typical Phyto-Ecosystem of Israel’s Coast....Pages 756-757

Based on the Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Sandy Beaches, held in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 17-21 January 1983

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