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Brianna LeFebre, Phil Saye and James S. Henkel
Coral reef rehabilitation in the Caribbean is of major ecological and economic importance in the West Indies. Local organizations in Grenada constructed a cement pyramid artificial reef structure with rugosity (termed ?The Pyramid?) and placed a number o...
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Thomas Dippong, Cristina Mihali and Alexandra Avram
This study closely analyzes the water quality dynamics of Teceu Lake, situated in a Natura 2000 protected area in Romania. The research investigates seasonal variations and interconnections with groundwater, assessing various ecological impacts. The main...
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Chun-Han Shih
The frog crab/red frog crab (Ranina ranina), a species of symbolic significance in the South Penghu Marine National Park, Taiwan, represents a collaboration between marine conservation and recreational fishing under Sustainable Development Goal 14 (SDG14...
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Jennifer Treviño, Miguel Rodríguez-Rodríguez, María José Montes-Vega, Héctor Aguilera, Ana Fernández-Ayuso and Nuria Fernández-Naranjo
The Doñana National Park (DNP) is a protected area with water resources drastically diminishing due to the unsustainable extraction of groundwater for agricultural irrigation and human consumption of a nearby coastal city. In this study, we explore the p...
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Marcos V. L. Sousa, Silas N. Melo, Juciana C. B. Souza, Carlos F. A. Silva, Yuri Feitosa and Lindon F. Matias
Protected areas (PAs) help in strategies for maintaining biodiversity and inhibiting deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. However, there are few studies that evaluate the effectiveness of lands protected by states (or federation units). Our goal was t...
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Guoqi Han, Jon Chamberlain, Colin Webber and Charles Hannah
The world?s largest living glass sponge reefs, located in the Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound off British Columbia, are impacted by bottom contact fishing gear. The existing Adaptive Management Zones (AMZs) for the protection of these reefs were ...
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Mercedes Elena Zapata Mendoza
The present work has been developed in the La Libertad region, located on the north coast of Peru, specifically in the high Andean province of Santiago de Chuco and the coastal province of Virú; This research had the purpose to analyze the situ...
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Keita Koeda, Soutarou Takashima, Takehisa Yamakita, Shinji Tsuchida and Yoshihiro Fujiwara
Several volcanic islands and submarine volcanoes exist in the sea connecting the Izu-Bonin Islands with the Mariana Islands, with trenches and islands formed by the submergence of the Pacific Plate under the Philippine Sea Plate. Although designated as a...
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Salvador Garcia-Ayllon and John Radke
The management and conservation of wetlands and vulnerable protected areas of high ecological value dependent on the existence of water is complex and generally depends on the climate and rainfall in semi-arid territories such as southeastern Spain. Howe...
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Carlos Mestanza-Ramón, Giorgio Anfuso, J. Adolfo Chica-Ruiz, Alexis Mooser, Camilo M. Botero and Enzo Pranzini
The scenery, safety, facilities, water quality and litter quantities in coastal areas are relevant and determining elements in the choice of a tourist destination. This paper focused on the evaluation of coastal scenic value in 55 and 12 sites respective...
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Javier Martínez-Vega, David Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Francisco M. Fernández-Latorre, Paloma Ibarra, Maite Echeverría and Pilar Echavarría
It is usually considered that Protected Areas (PAs) are an efficient tool for policies to conserve biodiversity. However, there is evidence that some pressures and threats arise from processes taking place both inside them and in their surroundings terri...
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Alejandro Gómez-Pazo, Augusto Pérez-Alberti and Xose Lois Otero Pérez
Sedimentary coastal areas change rapidly and are economically and environmentally important. This research focuses on determining the extent to which natural dynamics and human activity have contributed to visible changes on Rodas, Cíes Islands in southw...
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Pedro Fraga-Santiago, Alejandro Gómez-Pazo, Augusto Pérez-Alberti, Pablo Montero and Xose Lois Otero Pérez
Coastal lagoons are habitats of great environmental value. However, they are currently subject to major threats, particularly due to increasing sea levels. This study aims to identify changes?both natural and induced by anthropic activity?and their impac...
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Karolína Bílá, Zdenka Krenová, Zdenek Pícha, Pavel Kindlmann
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In this study, we focus on factors affecting the socio-economic development within a protected zone and attempt to elucidate if being in a protected area significantly affects the development or whether other factors also have a role. We focused on popul...
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Maja Vurnek, Andrijana Brozincevic, ?eljko Rendulic, Kazimir Miculinic, Vesna Vukadin, Ognjen ?kunca
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Plitvice Lakes National Park (PLNP) is the oldest protected area in Croatia (since 1949) and was placed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in1979. It is an area of outstanding universal value consisting of a freshwater ecosystem of 16 lakes divided by tuf...
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María Muñoz, Andreas Reul, María Del Carmen García-Martínez, Francisco Plaza, Begoña Bautista, Francina Moya and Manuel Vargas-Yáñez
The Cape of Gata region (southeast Spain) allocates the thermo-haline Almeria?Oran front (AOF), which separates two biogeographical zones, with a very irregular bathymetry, consisting of two canyons and seamounts in an area of 100 × 100 km. An interdisci...
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Sanchayeeta Adhikari, Timothy Fik and Puneet Dwivedi
Land change modeling has become increasingly important in evaluating the unique driving factors and proximate causes that underlie a particular geographical location. In this article, a binary logistic regression analysis was employed to identify the fac...
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Mengtian Cao, Li Peng and Shaoquan Liu
With the continued growth of protected areas (PAs) in China in terms of the number, coverage and varieties of protected objects, how to efficiently manage the protected areas to ensure both resource protection and environmental protection has become a cr...
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Jaqueline Garcia-Yi
Cocaine is extracted from coca: a native bush from the Amazon rainforest. Coca is mostly grown in remote areas to avoid government intervention, and it has been increasingly cultivated inside protected areas (PAs). The effects of coca cultivation on the ...
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Mirela Costencu,Claudia-Nicoleta Dobrescu
The protected natural areas, irrespective of their classification modality or the motivations they propose, have become more and more attractive for tourists. However, in time, the increasing touristic flows they attract, often developed in an uncontroll...
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