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Under the future climate conditions an increased number of storm surges are predicted. The present study investigated the effects of storm surges on the salt marsh fauna at Wursten coast. Carabid beetles were recorded before and after a storm event and drifting beetles were collected out off the water during the storm surge ‘Kerstin’. Sieving of beetles at the drift line during half an hour resulted in 427 specimens of 21 carabid species. Five out of six special salt marsh species suffered in the year after the storm surge but with variance depending on site and elevation, only Dicheirotrichus gustavii showed partly an increase in numbers. Storm surges expel carabid beetles from the foreland, the polder, and the main dike.
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Dormann, W., Mossakowski, D. (2023). Storm Surges as Natural Experiments. In: Mossakowski, D., Irmler, U. (eds) Terrestrial Coastal Ecosystems in Germany and Climate Change. Ecological Studies, vol 245. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12539-3_21
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