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Alejandro Gómez-Pazo, Augusto Pérez-Alberti, Pedro Fraga-Santiago, Martin Souto-Souto and X. L. Otero
The Natura 2000 network is an ambitious European project aimed at nature conservation. Nevertheless, the identification and delimitation of habitats is a complex task and simultaneously essential for correct ecosystem management. In this study we compare...
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Alfonso Arrieta-Pastrana, Oscar E. Coronado-Hernández and Vicente S. Fuertes-Miquel
Tidal inlet structures are engineering projects with associated benefits related to flood control, water quality enhancement, and coastal protection. This study analyzes the performance of hydraulic gates on a stabilized inlet in estuarine systems by dev...
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Kun Yuan, Rui Wang, Bo He, Guowei Fu, Yanwei Song, Lixin Pei, Shichao Fan and Fangyi Gao
Lagoons, significant coastal wetlands, stand out for their vital role in the cycles and transformations of phosphorus. However, the relationship between the spatial distributions of various phosphorus forms in the soil and sediments of lagoon areas remai...
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Soukaina Elyaagoubi, Georg Umgiesser, Mehdi Maanan, Francesco Maicu, Jovita Me?ine, Karim Hilmi and Arturas Razinkovas-Baziukas
The finite element model SHYFEM was used to study the hydrodynamics and variability of water level, salinity, temperature, and water residence time (WRT) in the Oualidia lagoon located on the Moroccan Atlantic coast. The lagoon hosts a RAMSAR convention-...
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Dionysios N. Apostolopoulos, Pavlos Avramidis and Konstantinos G. Nikolakopoulos
The Prokopos Lagoon is part of the Kotychi Strofilias National Wetlands Park, which is supervised by the Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change of Greece. The lagoon is situated at the northwestern coast of the Peloponnese and is protected by...
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Inmaculada Rodríguez-Santalla, Alejandro Díez-Martínez and Nuria Navarro
The aim of this work is to apply a vulnerability index in the dune field located in the Riumar urban zone at the mouth of the Ebro River. This dune field represents the natural barrier of the El Garxal coastal lagoon system. The index used integrates the...
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Olivier Boutron, Caroline Paugam, Emilie Luna-Laurent, Philippe Chauvelon, Damien Sous, Vincent Rey, Samuel Meulé, Yves Chérain, Anais Cheiron and Emmanuelle Migne
The Vaccarès Lagoon System, located in the central part of the Rhône Delta (France), is a complex shallow coastal lagoon, exposed to a typical Mediterranean climate and a specific hydrological regime affected by man-controlled exchanges with the sea and ...
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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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Juan Soria, Lucía Vera-Herrera, Sara Calvo, Susana Romo, Eduardo Vicente, María Sahuquillo and Xavier Sòria-Perpinyà
The Albufera of Valencia is a coastal lagoon located in the western area of the Mediterranean Sea, in the Iberian Peninsula. It has an area of 23.1 km2 and an average depth of only 1 m, with a maximum depth of 1.6 m. This lagoon is the remnants of an ori...
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Chiara Facca, Francesco Cavraro, Piero Franzoi and Stefano Malavasi
Transitional waters are fragile ecosystems with high ecological, social and economic values, that undergo numerous threats. According to the information provided by European Member States in the framework of the European Directive 92/43/EEC (Habitat Dire...
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Juan Soria, Gema Caniego, Nuria Hernández-Sáez, Jose Antonio Dominguez-Gomez and Manuel Erena
The Mar Menor is a Spanish coastal lagoon of great ecological and economic interest. The agricultural and tourist activities developed in the surroundings of the lagoon, together with the modifications in its channels of connection with the Mediterranean...
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Fotini Botsou, Aristomenis P. Karageorgis, Vasiliki Paraskevopoulou, Manos Dassenakis and Michael Scoullos
The Antinioti Lagoon is a karstified, rather pristine, and shallow coastal lagoon located in the northern part of Corfu Island in NW Greece. The present study examines the levels of metals (Al, Fe, Mn, Cd, Cu, Pb, and Zn) in the dissolved and particulate...
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S. Orfanidis, N. Stamatis, A. Parasyri, M. S. Mente, S. Zerveas, P. Pigada, A. Papadimitriou, M. Paschou, O. Nisiforou, A. Papazi, M. Moustaka-Gouni and K. Kotzabasis
Management of nutrient inputs and usage of nuisance biomass as feedstock for bioenergy may be the solution of coastal lagoons eutrophication. We studied the species composition, photosynthetic pigments (Chl-a and Chl-c) and performance (OJIP-kinetics and...
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Christophe Monnin, Joseph Tamborski, Simon Bejannin, Marc Souhaut, Manon Roques, Philippe Olivier and Pieter van Beek
Coastal karst aquifers are vulnerable to sea level rise and seawater intrusion. Knowledge of aquifer hydrological characteristics is therefore essential to managing this water resource. Long-term aquifer monitoring may not always be possible, especially ...
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Miriam García-Oliva, Ángel Pérez-Ruzafa, Georg Umgiesser, William McKiver, Michol Ghezzo, Francesca De Pascalis and Concepción Marcos
The Mar Menor lagoon has been subjected to high anthropogenic pressures. Among them, in the early 1970s, dredging and enlargement of one of the inlets to make a navigable channel has had strong consequences on the hydrology, ecology, and fisheries of the...
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Olivier Boutron, Olivier Bertrand, Annie Fiandrino, Patrick Höhener, Alain Sandoz, Yves Chérain, Eric Coulet and Philippe Chauvelon
The spatiotemporal structure of wind-driven circulation patterns and associated water exchanges can drive important bio-hydrodynamic interactions in shallow lagoons. The Vaccarès lagoon system is a complex shallow hydrosystem located in the central part ...
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Guoyao Huang, Xuhui Dong, Hanbiao Xian, Weijian Xu, Hanfei Yang, Yuewei Zhang and Giri Kattel
Coastal lagoons connecting the land and sea provide essential ecosystem services. However, emerging environmental issues such as environmental pollution and ecological degradation from rapid socio-economic development in coastal zones of south China are ...
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Maria Ceraulo, María Paz Sal Moyano, Fernando Jose Hidalgo, María Cielo Bazterrica, Salvatore Mazzola, María Andrea Gavio and Giuseppa Buscaino
Human-generated underwater noise and its effect on marine biota is recognized as an important issue. Boat noise can affect the communication success of fish species that use sounds for spawning purposes. During the reproductive period, males of the black...
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José Fortes Lopes, Carina Lurdes Lopes and João Miguel Dias
Extreme weather events (EWEs) represent meteorological hazards for coastal lagoon hydrodynamics, of which intensity and frequency are increasing over the last decades as a consequence of climate changes. The imbalances they generated should affect primar...
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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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