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Giandomenico Foti, Giuseppe Barbaro, Giuseppina Chiara Barillà and Ferdinando Frega
During the second half of the last century, considerable anthropization processes were observed throughout most of the Italian territory. These processes have altered the equilibrium conditions of several river and coastal ecosystems, causing the destruc...
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Khan Z. Jadoon, Samir Al-Mashharawi, Sherif M. Hanafy, Gerard T. Schuster and Thomas M. Missimer
Wadi aquifers in Saudi Arabia historically have been recharged primarily by channel loss (infiltration) during floods. Historically, seasonal groundwater levels fluctuated from land surface to about 3 m below the surface. Agricultural irrigation pumping ...
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Khan Z. Jadoon, Samir Al-Mashharawi, Sherif M. Hanafy, Gerard T. Schuster, Thomas M. Missimer
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Wadi aquifers in Saudi Arabia historically have been recharged primarily by channel loss (infiltration) during floods. Historically, seasonal groundwater levels fluctuated from land surface to about 3 m below the surface. Agricultural irrigation pumping ...
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Janaka Bamunawala, Shreedhar Maskey, Trang Minh Duong and Ad Van der Spek
The sediment budget associated with future coastline change in the vicinity of tidal inlets consists of four components; sea level rise-driven landward movement of the coastline (i.e., the Bruun effect), basin infilling effect due to sea level rise-induc...
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Janaka Bamunawala, Shreedhar Maskey, Trang Minh Duong and Ad Van der Spek
The sediment budget associated with future coastline change in the vicinity of tidal inlets consists of four components; sea level rise-driven landward movement of the coastline (i.e., the Bruun effect), basin infilling effect due to sea level rise-induc...
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Janaka Bamunawala, Shreedhar Maskey, Trang Minh Duong and Ad Van der Spek
The sediment budget associated with future coastline change in the vicinity of tidal inlets consists of four components; sea level rise-driven landward movement of the coastline (i.e., the Bruun effect), basin infilling effect due to sea level rise-induc...
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Francisco Estrada,Luis Felipe Martins,Pierre Perron
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Because of low-frequency internal variability, the observed and underlying warming trends in temperature series can be markedly different. Important differences in the observed nonlinear trends in hemispheric temperature series suggest that the northern ...
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Nikolaos Depountis, Maria Michalopoulou, Katerina Kavoura, Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos and Nikolaos Sabatakakis
In recent decades, wildfires have become a serious threat worldwide, producing disasters in the natural and anthropogenic environment as well as serious economic losses. One of wildfire?s major impacts is soil erosion, as it may cause major problems in b...
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Andrés Goyburo, Pedro Rau, Waldo Lavado-Casimiro, Wouter Buytaert, José Cuadros-Adriazola and Daniel Horna
Water is an essential resource for social and economic development. The availability of this resource is constantly threatened by the rapid increase in its demand. This research assesses current (2010?2016), short- (2017?2040), middle- (2041?2070), and l...
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Giovanni Scardino, François Sabatier, Giovanni Scicchitano, Arcangelo Piscitelli, Maurilio Milella, Antonio Vecchio, Marco Anzidei and Giuseppe Mastronuzzi
The dynamics of the sandy coast between Castellaneta and Taranto (Southern Italy) has been influenced by many natural and anthropogenic factors, resulting in significant changes in the coastal system over the last century. The interactions between vertic...
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Giorgos Maneas, Eirini Makopoulou, Dimitris Bousbouras, Håkan Berg and Stefano Manzoni
Human interventions during the last 70 years have altered the characteristics of the Gialova Lagoon, a coastal wetland that is part of a wider Natura 2000 site. In this study, we explore how human interventions and climate altered the wetland?s hydrologi...
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Yury Chendev, Olga Khokhlova, Elena Ponomarenko, Ekaterina Ershova, Alexander Alexandrovskiy and Tatyana Myakshina
Several episodes of past afforestation were reconstructed in a grassland area of the Yamskaya Steppe site within the “Belgorie” natural reserve on the Central-Russian Upland. The pedological, palinological, pedoanthracological, and phytolith ...
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Eleanor R. Stern, Federico Riva and Scott E. Nielsen
Forest fragmentation threatens forest biodiversity and ecosystem function. One of the concerns relates to increases in edge effects, which among other things affects the forest microclimate that influences the distribution and behavior of species. In Alb...
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Raymond Aabeyir, Wilson Agyei Agyare, Michael J. C. Weir, Stephen Adu-Bredu
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This study presents a multi-level analysis of land cover change in the Kintampo Municipality of Ghana using Landsat TM, ETM + and Landsat 8 images from 1986, 2001 and 2014, respectively. The expected and observed annual rates of land cover change for the...
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Chaojun Gu, Xingmin Mu, Guangju Zhao, Peng Gao, Wenyi Sun and Qiang Yu
The Poyang Lake Basin has been suffering from severe water problems such as floods and droughts. This has led to great adverse impacts on local ecosystems and water resource utilization. It is therefore important to understand stream flow changes and the...
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Chaojun Gu, Xingmin Mu, Guangju Zhao, Peng Gao, Wenyi Sun, Qiang Yu
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The Poyang Lake Basin has been suffering from severe water problems such as floods and droughts. This has led to great adverse impacts on local ecosystems and water resource utilization. It is therefore important to understand stream flow changes and the...
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Giandomenico Foti, Giuseppe Barbaro, Giuseppina Chiara Barillà and Pierluigi Mancuso
An important process that began in many Mediterranean countries in the last century, after the end of the Second World War, concerns the displacement of a large part of the population from inland to coastal areas, expanding many existing cities and build...
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Valery Bondur and Viktor Zamshin
This paper focuses on a detailed analysis of coastal waters under the conditions of the intense anthropogenic impacts of submerged wastewater discharges, using optical and radar satellite images. The features of the intense anthropogenic impacts on the c...
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Eunhye Kim, Byeong-Uk Kim, Hyun Cheol Kim and Soontae Kim
In this study, we examined how modeled ozone concentrations respond to changes in anthropogenic emissions when different modeled emissions of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) are used. With biogenic emissions estimated by the Model of Emission...
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Erik Jeppesen, Martin Søndergaard and Zhengwen Liu
Lakes all around the globe are under severe pressure due to an increasing anthropogenic impact from a growing population in a more developed world. Accordingly, today, many lakes are highly eutrophic and suffer from severe blooms of often toxic cyanobact...
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