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COASTAL DUNES: A STUDY OF THE DUNES AT VERA CRUZ [PDF]
Coastal Engineering Proceedings, 1957 Coastal dunes are formed when winds gather the dry sands from beaches and carry it inland. The repeated scouring of surface sand and its deposit in other areas does more to shape the diverse hillocks and depressions characteristic of certain coastal areas than any other physical factor. For fifty years we have been battling the sand dunes at Vera Cruz.
Manuel Diaz Marta, Marta, Manuel Diaz
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A Global Environmental History of Coastal Dunes [PDF]
This book provides a holistic perspective on coastal dunes, highlighting new insights into present-day challenges to show that narratives, along with numbers, graphics, and computer models, have a role to play in climate change science, policymaking, and citizenship awareness. Adopting a cross-disciplinary approach, this book combines fiction, history,
de Freitas, Joana Gaspar +1 more
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Pedogenesis on the Sefton Coastal Dunes, NW England [PDF]
, 2010 A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of Wolverhampton for the degree of Doctor of PhilosophyThis work examines the use of pedo-properties to identify dune soil system responses to environmental change on the ...
Millington, Jennifer A.
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The role of long-term landscape photography as a tool in dune management [PDF]
, 2009 Attitudes to maintaining dune diversity are changing under the realization that existing dune stabilization techniques are fixing dune landscapes, causing ‘coastal squeeze’ and loss of habitat as shorelines retreat.
Worsley, Annie T. +7 more
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Building Coastal Dunes with Sea Oats and Surrogate Wrack
EDIS, 2016 Perennial coastal grasses such as sea oats have long been recognized as the biological engineers of our increasingly stressed beaches and coastal dunes.
Natalie Hooton +3 more
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Mid- to Late-Quaternary evolution of the Wilderness Barrier dunes, South Africa [PDF]
, 2011 Barrier dunes represent potentially long-term, but complex, archives of coastal evolution. The examples occupying the Wilderness embayment, on the southern Cape coast of South Africa, form a regionally unique system of three shore-parallel barriers ...
Dunajko, Adam C.
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Remote Sensing, 2023 Coastal dunes that transgress typically move landward, while their reverse movement is not well understood. The article discusses the study of barchan and barchanoid dunes in the Lagoa do Peixe National Park in the coastal plain of Rio Grande do Sul ...
Rogério Portantiolo Manzolli +4 more
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The distribution and impact of an invasive plant species (Senecio inaequidens) on a dune building engineer (Calamagrostis arenaria) [PDF]
NeoBiota, 2022 Disturbance is thought to enhance the probability of invasive species establishment, a prerequisite for naturalisation. Coastal dunes are characterised by disturbance in the form of sand dynamics.
Ruben Van De Walle +3 more
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Coastal sand dune flora in the Thoothukudi District, Tamil Nadu, southern India
Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2011 Coastal sand dunes (CSD) are found in the Thoothukudi District and the communities living close to the coastal sand dunes know the value of the sand dunes and their bioresources.
K. Muthukumar, A.S. Samuel
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Coastal Dunes of the Baltic Sea Shores: A Review
Quaestiones Geographicae, 2018 The article summarises results of studies conducted along the Baltic Sea sandy coasts by scientists involved in coastal dune research, and presents an attempt to describe the types and distribution of dune coasts.
Łabuz Tomasz Arkadiusz +7 more
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