Interrelations Between the Losses of Sandy Beaches and Biodiversity in Seas: Case of the Bakalskaya Spit (Crimea, Ukraine, Black sea)
Journal: Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
Year: 2012

More than 70% of the beaches in the World are in decreasing stage during the past few decades, and the Black sea beaches are not exclusion. The paper gives a brief conceptual review of published and unpublished results of author’s longterm complicated study (1995-2010) in different areas of the Crimean coastline. Interconnections between marine communities and beach erosion are analyzed as well as some anthropogenic impacts on processes in beach area. Selfaccelerating mechanism of beach erosion