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The dilemma of coastal management: Exploitation or conservation? [PDF]
Cambridge Prisms: Coastal FuturesThe real estate business on sandy coasts and coastal dunes has increased dramatically over the last decades because of the growing demands for leisure activities which, consequently, have yielded important economic gains.
M. Luisa Martínez +5 more
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Spatial distribution of sand dunes along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast: inventory, UAS mapping and new discoveries [PDF]
Nature Conservation, 2023 Coastal sand dunes are amongst the world’s most sensitive and dynamic landforms. Unfortunately, during the last thirty years, heavy anthropogenic alterations have been observed, encompassing the greater part of the Bulgarian Black Sea coast (BBSC), which
Bogdan Prodanov +4 more
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Mexican Coastal Dunes: Recipients and Donors of Alien Flora
Diversity, 2021 The invasion of natural communities by exotic plants, which may turn into invasive or potentially invasive, is one of the most severe known threats to biodiversity, and coastal dunes are among the most affected habitats.
M. Luisa Martínez +5 more
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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023 Coastal dune restoration projects are increasingly seen as a means of protecting the coast against storms, especially with the use of natural (plants), artificial (geotextile tube cores) and hybrid (plants and geotextile tube) elements.
Carmelo Maximiliano-Cordova +5 more
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Coastal dune flora, Nallavadu village, Puducherry, India [PDF]
Check List, 2010 Coastal sand dunes (CSD) are sensitive and fragile ecosystems with variety of specific floral species. Though there are few confined studies on coastal sand dunes in temperate regions, the coastal dunes of tropics, especially the Indian coramandal coast ...
K. Padmavathy +2 more
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A meta-analysis of plant facilitation in coastal dune systems: responses, regions, and research gaps [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Empirical studies in salt marshes, arid, and alpine systems support the hypothesis that facilitation between plants is an important ecological process in severe or ‘stressful’ environments.
Camila de Toledo Castanho +3 more
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Finisterra - Revista Portuguesa de Geografia, 2021 A construção de dunas e os movimentos de areia ao longo da costa europeia estão geralmente relacionados com a variabilidade climática e com a flutuação do nível do mar.
Mihaela Tudor +2 more
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Coastal Sand Frostweed, Crocanthemum arenicola Synonym: Helianthemum arenicola
EDIS, 2018 Coastal sand frostweed is found on beach dunes, scrub, and sandhills. It is endemic to the Florida Panhandle, Mississippi, and Alabama coastal counties.
Debbie Miller +4 more
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Research on Area Change of Coastal Sand Dunes Based on the Dune Boundary Data in South Korea [PDF]
Geo DataCoastal sand dunes in South Korea were listed 133 first in 2001 by the Ministry of Environment, and from 2007 to 2009, the National Institute of Environmental Research listed 199.
Jihyun Kang, Seonghun Lee, Hyun-Su Hwang
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Contribution of laser altimetry images to the geomorphology of the Late Holocene inland drift sands of the European Sand Belt [PDF]
, 2010 The paper explores the possibilities of applying the analysis of laser altimetry images to Dutch drift sands. All along the European Sand Belt, which stretches from Great Britain to the Ural Mountains, Late Glacial cover sands, river dunes and other ice ...
Jungerius, P.D., Riksen, M.J.P.M.
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