On the decadal time scale of coastal planning and management, relative sea-level rise is usually considered a trend or constant rate rather than dynamic, varying influence on change. However, ocean sea level along east coast Florida regions further north is, to first order, controlled at interannual by dynamics North Atlantic circulation Gulf Stream (GS) flow, Every region has its own distincti...

Impacts from a changing climate, in particular sea-level rise, will be most acutely felt on small oceanic islands. A common configuration of mid-latitude islands is the sandy barrier island. Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Canada vegetated sand island near shelf edge, 160 km nearest point land, that morphologically similar to This study uses 60 years airphoto records analyse changes coastline positi...

We analysed sympatrically occurring specimens from Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia identified on shell characters as Naticarius onca (Röding, 1798) and found them molecularly separated into two distinct clades. Additionally, we obtained sequences from nine morphologically similar, randomly collected naticid egg masses (‘sand collars’) from Lizard Island and two other Queensland localities....

Adult spccimensofthespot.leiosromusxMfhwur, werecollected from bayou.Mississippi Sound. and barrier island locations along the Gulf Coast of Mississippi from November 1982 to July 1989. 7he mean total length of all spot sampled in comparable gill net sets was 219 mm (i 14 standard deviation, nd.338). Ninety-five percent of the spot were collected in the island and sound areas, where the salinit...

Predator-prey communities are ubiquitous in ecology, but introduced predators can drive native species to extinction within island systems, prompting the eradication of such exotics. Ecological theory predicts that elimination of top-introduced predators from islands can lead to the counterintuitive decline of native prey populations through the ecological release of smaller introduced species ...