Global change and biodiversity solutions

Selected reviews and syntheses on coastal urbanisation and ocean sprawl

  • Firth, L. B., Bone, J., Bartholomew, A., Bishop, M. J., Bugnot, A., Bulleri, F., Chee, S. Y., Claassens, L., Dafforn, K. A., Fairchild, T. P., Hall, A. E., Hanley, M. E., Komyakova, V., Lemasson, A. J., Loke, L. H. L.,... & Knights, A. M. (2024). Coastal greening of grey infrastructure: an update on the state-of-the-art. In: Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Maritime Engineering. p. 1–69.

  • Bugnot, A. B., Mayer-Pinto, M., Airoldi, L., Heery, E. C., Johnston, E. L., Critchley, L. P., Strain, E. M. A., Morris, R. L., Loke, L. H. L., Bishop, M. J., Sheehan, E. V., Coleman, R. A., & Dafforn, K. A. (2021). Current and projected global extent of marine infrastructure. Nature Sustainability 4(1): 33–41.

  • Morris, R. L., Heery, E. C., Loke, L. H. L., ... & Leung, K. M. Y. (2019). Design options, implementation issues and evaluating success of ecologically-engineered shorelines. Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review 57: 137–196.

  • Loke, L. H. L., Heery, E. C., & Todd, P. A. (2019). Chapter 29: Shoreline defences. In: Sheppard, C. (Editor), World Seas: An Environmental Evaluation, Vol III: Ecological Issues and Environmental Impacts, (2nd ed.). Oxford, UK: Elsevier Limited.

  • Lai, S., Loke, L. H. L., Hilton, M. J., Bouma, T. J., & Todd, P. A. (2015). The effects of urbanisation on coastal habitats and the potential for ecological engineering: A Singapore case study. Ocean & Coastal Management 103: 78–85.

Selected empirical studies involving complex moulded habitat tiles in eco-engineering

  • Hartanto, R. S., Loke, L. H. L., Heery, E. C., Hsiung, A. R., Goh, M., Pek, S., Birch, W. R., & Todd, P. A. (2021). Material type weakly affects algal colonisation but not macrofaunal community in an artificial intertidal habitat. Ecological Engineering 176: 106514.

  • Hsiung, A. R., Tan, W. T., Loke, L. H. L., Firth, L. B., Heery, E. C., Ducker, J., Clark, V., Pek, S., Birch, W. R., Ang, A. C. F., Hartanto, R. S., Chai, T., & Todd, P. A. (2020). Little evidence that lowering the pH of concrete supports greater biodiversity on tropical and temperate seawalls. Marine Ecology Progress Series 656: 193–205.

  • Loke, L. H. L., Chisholm, R. A., & Todd, P. A. (2019). Effects of habitat area and spatial configuration on biodiversity in an experimental intertidal community. Ecology 100(8): e02757.

  • Loke, L. H. L., Bouma, T. J., & Todd, P. A. (2017). The effects of manipulating microhabitat size and variability on tropical seawall biodiversity: field and flume experiments. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 492: 113–120.

  • Loke, L. H. L., & Todd, P. A. (2016). Structural complexity and component type increase intertidal biodiversity independently of area. Ecology 97(2): 383–393.

Other selected papers on urban marine ecology

  • Todd, P. A., Heery, E. C., Loke, L. H. L., Thurstan, R. H., Kotze, D. J., & Swan, C. (2019). Towards an urban marine ecology: characterizing the drivers, patterns and processes of marine ecosystems in coastal cities. Oikos 128(9): 1215–1242.

  • Lai, S, Loke, L. H. L., Bouma, T. J., & Todd, P. A. (2018). Biodiversity surveys and stable isotope analyses reveal key differences in intertidal communities between tropical seawalls and rocky shores. Marine Ecology Progress Series 587: 41–53.