There is growing concern that recreational shoreline angling activity may negatively impact littoral and riparian habitats independent of any direct or indirect influences of fish harvest or fishing mortality through mechanisms such as disturbance (e.g., trampling, erosion) and pollution (e.g., littering). We sampled a suite of aquatic and terrestrial variables (i.e., water quality, aquatic and...

Terrestrial conservation planning is well developed. In comparison, there are only a handful of published marine conservation plans and few of them are quantitative. The Nature Conservancy’s strategic planning approach, called “Conservation by Design,” employs an ecoregional planning methodology to construct conservation portfolios, or high-priority conservation areas. This chapter reports on t...

The coastal zone is a complex environment in which a variety of forcing factors interact causing shoreline evolution. Coastal managers seek to predict coastal evolution and to identify regions vulnerable to erosion. Here, a Bayesian network is developed to identify the primary factors influencing decadal-scale shoreline evolution of European coasts and to reproduce the observed evolution trends...