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Francisco Silveira, Carina Lurdes Lopes, João Pedro Pinheiro, Humberto Pereira and João Miguel Dias
Coastal floods are currently a strong threat to socioeconomic activities established on the margins of lagoons and estuaries, as well as to their ecological equilibrium, a situation that is expected to become even more worrying in the future in a climate...
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Humood Abdulla Naser
Costal reclamation has been carried out extensively along the coastlines of the Arabian Gulf during the last decades. As a small archipelago country, coastal reclamation continues to be a major option for securing land to meet the needs of the expanding ...
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Eduard A. Titlyanov, Tamara V. Titlyanova, Hui Huang, Anna V. Scriptsova, Huili Xu and Xiubao Li
At the end of the rainy season in 2016 and at the end of the dry season in 2017, we conducted a floristic study of marine macrophytic algae in the intertidal and subtidal zones in moderately and heavily polluted areas at Luhuitou reef, Sanya Bay, Hainan ...
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Yinan Mao, Qingyun Ma, Jiaxin Lin, Ye Chen and Qiang Shu
In this study, total organic carbon (TOC), total nitrogen (TN), and stable carbon isotopes (d13C) were measured in surface intertidal saltmarsh and bare tidal flat sediments along the Rudong coast. The distribution and sources of organic carbon were exam...
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Karen L. M. Martin and Loni C. Adams
Beach habitats are diminishing globally, particularly in urban areas, as sea-level rise, erosion, and shoreline hardening, along with reduced sediment inputs, combine to squeeze the coast. In California, USA an endemic marine fish, the California grunion...
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Martin Gade, Jörn Kohlus and Cornelia Kost
We show that high-resolution space-borne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery with pixel sizes smaller than 1 m2 can be used to complement archaeological surveys on intertidal flats. After major storm surges in the 14th and 17th centuries (?Grote Mandr...
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Changsheng Chen, Haosheng Huang, Huichan Lin, Jack Blanton, Chunyan Li and Francisco Andrade
The wet/dry point treatment method of FVCOM was applied to simulate the tide-induced flooding/drying process in the estuarine?tidal-creek?saltmarsh complex of the Okatee/Colleton River Estuary, South Carolina. The simulation results were compared with ob...
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Chelladurai Stella,Packiam Paul,Chelladurai Ragunathan
The new occurrence of Three species of bivalves from Pinnidae family is recorded for the first time from Palk Bay area based on a live and dead shells collected from the Intertidal area . All the three species are under the family of Pinnidae...
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Chelladurai Stella,Packiam Paul,Chelladurai Ragunathan
The new occurrence of Three species of bivalves from Pinnidae family is recorded for the first time from Palk Bay area based on a live and dead shells collected from the Intertidal area . All the three species are under the family of Pinnidae...
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Jesus A. Sanchez,Jacobus P. Le Roux
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The Magellan Block, located on the modern Atlantic continental platform opposite the Strait of Magellan (Chile), consists of two parallel, northwest trending horsts partly separated by a central graben. Petroleum has been recovered from the Springhill Fo...
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Marie P. A. Fouet, David Singer, Alexandra Coynel, Swann Héliot, Hélène Howa, Julie Lalande, Aurélia Mouret, Magali Schweizer, Guillaume Tcherkez and Frans J. Jorissen
This study focuses on the foraminiferal distribution on intertidal mudflats of two contrasted estuaries (Auray and Vie) along the French Atlantic coast. In both estuaries, the foraminiferal communities are dominated by Haynesina germanica and the Ammonia...
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Douglas R. Krafft, Richard Styles and Mitchell E. Brown
Increasing societal pressures (e.g., population growth and urbanization) are driving land use change practices in coastal areas that could potentially alter the hydrodynamics and sediment transport patterns near coastal inlets in ways that might exacerba...
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Giannis Saitis, Anna Karkani, Eleni Koutsopoulou, Konstantinos Tsanakas, Satoru Kawasaki and Niki Evelpidou
Beachrocks are a window to the past environmental, geological, sedimentological and morphological conditions that were dominant in the coastal zone during their formation. Furthermore, beachrocks have the ability to reduce coastal erosion impact on sandy...
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Huiming Zhang, Dong Zhang, Yong Zhou, Mark E. J. Cutler, Dandan Cui and Zhuo Zhang
Offshore wind farms have developed rapidly in Jiangsu Province, China, over the last decade. The existence of offshore wind turbines will inevitably impact hydrological and sedimentary environments. In this paper, a digital elevation model (DEM) of the i...
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Magda M. Abou El-Safa, Mohamed Gad, Ebrahem M. Eid, Ashwaq M. Alnemari, Mohammed H. Almarshadi, Abdullah S. Alshammari, Farahat S. Moghanm and Ali H. Saleh
The present study focuses on the risk assessment of heavy metal contamination in aquatic ecosystems by evaluating the current situation of heavy metals in seven locations (North Amer El Bahry, Amer, Bakr, Ras Gharib, July Water Floud, Ras Shokeir, and El...
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Soilam Boutoumit, Oussama Bououarour, Reda El Kamcha, Pierre Pouzet, Bendahhou Zourarah, Abdelaziz Benhoussa, Mohamed Maanan and Hocein Bazairi
This study presents an assessment of the diversity and spatial distribution of benthic macrofauna communities along the Moulay Bousselham lagoon and discusses the environmental factors contributing to observed patterns. In the autumn of 2018, 68 stations...
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Koot Reinecke, Naomi Mdzeke, Sophié Reinecke
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Cadmium contamination levels in the False Bay intertidal zone in South Africa were assessed in the water and sediments over a period of one year. Samples were collected seasonally from six sites within the bay, and from a reference site situated j...
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Daniele Pinton, Alberto Canestrelli and Luca Fantuzzi
An accurate description of hydrodynamic processes in coastal wetlands is needed to improve their management and conservation. As a consequence, higher knowledge of the connected morphological and ecologic processes is achievable. However, it is very cost...
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James S. Klaus, Vassiliki H. Kourafalou, Alan M. Piggot, Ad Reniers, HeeSook Kang, Naresh Kumar, Elsayed M. Zahran, Leonidas G. Bachas, Adolfo Fernandez, Piero Gardinali, Michal Toborek, Sylvia Daunert, Sapna Deo and Helena M. Solo-Gabriele
Within the tropical marine study site of Guánica Bay, Puerto Rico, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are subjected to coastal and oceanic currents coupled with marine microbial and geochemical processes. To evaluate these processes a hydrodynamic model wa...
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Yanyan Kang, Wanting Lv, Jinyan He and Xianrong Ding
Measurement of beach heights in the intertidal zone has great importance for dynamic geomorphology research, coastal zone management, and the protection of ecological resources. Based on satellite images, the waterline method based on satellite images is...
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