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Asa Oren, Ofer Berman, Reem Neri, Ezri Tarazi, Haim Parnas, Offri Lotan, Majeed Zoabi, Noam Josef and Nadav Shashar
Coral reefs are three-dimensional biogenic structures that provide habitat for plenty of marine organisms; yet, coral reefs are deteriorating worldwide. Hence, it is essential to identify suitable substitutes for such coral services. This study examines ...
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Xin Bao, Jingbo Liu and Fei Wang
Insufficient comprehension of the seismic impact of the reef terrain, geology, and material properties of the reefs in the South China Sea still presents considerable impediments in studying the seismic response of reef engineering sites and assessing th...
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Saharsh Barve, Jody M. Webster and Rohitash Chandra
Environmental damage has been of much concern, particularly in coastal areas and the oceans, given climate change and the drastic effects of pollution and extreme climate events. Our present-day analytical capabilities, along with advancements in informa...
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Baruch Rinkevich
The continuous degradation of coral reef ecosystems on a global level, the disheartening expectations of a gloomy future for reefs? statuses, the failure of traditional conservation acts to revive most of the degrading reefs and the understanding that it...
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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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Weijie Liu, Keqi Shao and Yue Ning
This study utilized a shock-capturing Boussinesq model FUNWAVE-TVD to investigate the maximum momentum flux in the solitary wave run-up zone over back-reef slopes. Validation results of the present model were compared to the previous version of FUNWAVE u...
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Matthew W. Becker, Francine M. Cason and Benjamin Hagedorn
Groundwater discharge from high tropical islands can have a significant influence on the biochemistry of reef ecosystems. Recent studies have suggested that a portion of groundwater may underflow the reefs to be discharged, either through the reef flat o...
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Cuiping Kuang, Jiadong Fan, Xuejian Han, Hongyi Li, Rufu Qin and Qingping Zou
With the recent development from grey infrastructures to green infrastructures, artificial reefs become more popular in coastal protection projects. To investigate the responses of beach profile evolution to the presence of an artificial reef, a non-hydr...
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Yangyang Gao, Linguang Ren and Lizhong Wang
A series of physical model tests were performed to investigate the wave propagation, pressure, and wave overtopping processes for vertical and sloped seawalls on the reef flat. For both regular and irregular waves, the effects of incident wave height, wa...
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Mohammad Ghiasian, Jane Carrick, Claire Bisson, Brian K. Haus, Andrew C. Baker, Diego Lirman and Landolf Rhode-Barbarigos
Coral reefs function as submerged breakwaters providing wave mitigation and flood-reduction benefits for coastal communities. Although the wave-reducing capacity of reefs has been associated with wave breaking and friction, studies quantifying the relati...
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Dea Cardenas-Rojas, Edgar Mendoza, Mireille Escudero and Manuel Verduzco-Zapata
Artificial reefs have proven to be an optimal and effective solution in stabilizing coastlines around the world. They are submerged structures that imitate the protection service provided by natural reefs accomplishing the functions of dissipating wave e...
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Damien Sous
The present study aims to estimate the potential of artificial reef pass as a renewable source of energy. The overall idea is to mimic the functioning of natural reef?lagoon systems in which the cross-reef pressure gradient induced by wave breaking is ab...
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Zhen Yang, Guozhang Fan, Wei Yan, Xuefeng Wang, Guoqing Zhang, Zhili Yang, Zuofei Zhu, Yuanze Zhang, Huai Cheng, Hongxun Tian, Li Li and Qiang Zhang
During the Miocene, several reefs formed in the Beikang Basin, South China Sea, which may be potential targets for hydrocarbon exploration. This is due to the environment that developed as a result of the collision, splitting, and splicing of the Nansha ...
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Jinchao Wang, Qijun Guo, Wei Chen and Houceng Liu
In order to more accurately realize the automatic identification and quantitative characterization of coral reef multi-scale pore structure, this paper has carried out such research. On the basis of using multiple information acquisition technology, it c...
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Elad Nehoray Rachmilovitz, Jacob Douek and Baruch Rinkevich
The successful management of coral reefs necessitates understanding the genetic characteristics of reefs? populations since levels of genetic diversity play a critical role in their resilience, enabling them to withstand environmental changes with greate...
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Zhen Yao, Jie Chen, Changbo Jiang, Hai Liang, Zhiyuan Wu, Bin Deng, Yuannan Long and Chen Bian
This study utilized 50 laboratory experiments to document the evolution of coral beaches under varying regular wave conditions, including five distinct wave periods and ten wave heights. Both the type of equilibrium beach and the shape of sand bars were ...
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Anna Lisa Cescon, James Andrew Graham Cooper and Derek W. T. Jackson
Beach ridges originate from various depositional processes and occur in a variety of settings. This paper assesses their nature and distribution on the islands of the Greater Caribbean based on a literature review and the identification of sites using Go...
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David Smyth and Louise Kregting
For the tidal energy industry to move forward to commercialisation, understanding the interaction between the environment and tidal energy converters (TEC) is essential. The benthic environment may be particularly vulnerable to development by changing th...
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Thibault Laigre, Yann Balouin, Deborah Villarroel-Lamb, Alexandre Nicolae Lerma, Nico Valentini, Manuel Moisan and Ywenn De La Torre
Increasing evidence suggests that coastal ecosystems provide significant protection against coastal flooding. However, these ecosystems are highly impacted by local human activities and climate change, which has resulted in reducing their extent and can ...
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Xu Wang, Ke Qu, Jia Men, Liangbin Zhang, Junjie Li and Rongze Gao
Dredging materials from reef flats have become an important source of sand and aggregates for meeting the infrastructure needs of coral-lined shores in subtropical and tropical regions, especially for low-lying atoll islands. Dredging at the reef flats c...
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