Impacts of Climate Change on Coastal Ecosystems in the Indian Ocean Region

This paper provides a general account of the coastal zone ecology of the Indian Ocean region and the known and potential impacts of climate change on the region’s ecosystems. There is much we do not know about the interactions of ecosystems with their surroundings, especially in coastal and marine environments, and many indirect effects of global change on ecosystem functioning will likely reveal themselves as gradual impairments rather than as readily apparent losses of ecosystem integrity.

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