Breakwaters as habitats for synanthropes: Spatial associations of vertebrates and vegetation with anthropogenic litter

Coastal greening of grey infrastructure: an update on the state-of-the-art

“…Conversely, added topographic complexity may have positive benefits on species, but have little or no effect on productivity (Mayer-Pinto et al, 2023); and results can be location specific (Mayer-Pinto et al, in review). Artificial structures impact surrounding habitats via changes in the characteristics and biodiversity of proximal sediments (Hanley et al, 2014;Heery et al, 2018;Martinez et al, 2022), transport of wrack detritus (Critchley et al, 2021), litter accumulation (Aguilera et al, 2016(Aguilera et al, , 2023Aguilera 2018), and novel use of structures by terrestrial (pest) predators (Aguilera et al, 2023a). Initial work suggests that GGI can ameliorate some of these impacts, by retaining wrack (Strain et al, 2018b), but the influence of GGI on sediment properties (but see section 2.4.3 below), biotic assemblages and predator-prey interactions remains largely unknown.…”

“…-Considering socio-economic benefits Evans et al, 2017;Kienker et al, 2018;Evans et al, 2019;Morris et al, 2019;Strain et al, 2019;Sawyer et al, 2020;Fairchild et al, 2022;Accola et al, 2022a,b;Salaün et al, 2022;Aguilera et al, 2023b). -Consideration of other metrics such as trophic structure (Espinosa et al, 2020;Sedano et al, 2020a,b;Raoux et al, 2022), sedimentation (Bone et al, 2022b;Martinez et al, 2022), transport of wrack (Strain et al, 2018b;Critchley et al, 2021), litter accumulation (Aguilera et al, 2016(Aguilera et al, , 2018(Aguilera et al, , 2023a, use by terrestrial predators or pest species (Aguilera et al, 2023a), early life stage usage (Mafanya, 2020;Reddy, 2022).…”