Tropical Marine Ecology. Daniel M. Alongi

generally argued areal restrictions were unimportant and/or regressions led to extinctions. However, these results support the idea that the complex and peculiar relation between habitat and sea‐level change depends on the inherent geomorphic properties of the coastline. These results remain to be tested but do illustrate the crucial role of the geosphere in marine ecological processes.

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