INTEGRATED PLATFORM FOR PREDICTING AND EVALUATING COASTAL BENTHIC ECOLOGY-GEOENVIRONMENT

Abstract

 We developed an integrated platform to predict and evaluate coastal benthic ecology-geoenvironment, and applied the integrated platform to a field. The platform consistently predicted the changes in the crossshore distributions of three peracarid crustacean species, associated with the storm-induced morphological changes in the sandy beach, and demonstrated its effectiveness.