Flood risk mitigation and anthropogenic modifications of a coastal plain in southern Italy: combined effects over the past 150 years [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2007 A study of the effects of human modification of a coastal plain mainly involving land reclamation and flood protection is proposed. The approach involves historical, geomorphological and hydrological data as a whole, taking into account the equilibrium ...
O. Petrucci, M. Polemio
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Peer Community Journal, 2021 Null alleles, short allele dominance (SAD), and stuttering increase the perceived relative inbreeding of individuals and subpopulations as measured by Wrights F_IS and F_ST.
De Meeûs, Thierry +6 more
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Energies, 2022 The central North China Plain (NCP) is one of the rapidly developing regions in China which has a great potential for ground source heat pump (GSHP) system applications. However, the ground thermal property, which is a prerequisite for GSHP system design,
Wanli Wang +3 more
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Quantifying local-scale dust emission from the Arabian Red Sea coastal plain [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2017 Dust plumes emitted from the narrow Arabian Red Sea coastal plain are often observed on satellite images and felt in local population centers. Despite its relatively small area, the coastal plain could be a significant dust source; however, its effect is
A. Anisimov +6 more
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Methodological recommendations for assessing scleractinian and octocoral recruitment to settlement tiles [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Quantifying recruitment of corals is important for evaluating their capacity to recover after disturbances through natural processes, yet measuring recruitment rates in situ is challenging due to the minute size of the study organism and the complexity ...
Leah M. Harper +5 more
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Late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental evolution and sea level oscillation of Santa Catarina Island (southern Brazil) [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2023 Sea level oscillation during the Quaternary played a major role in the geomorphology and vegetation dynamics of coastal areas in southern Brazil, encompassing ecosystems that often have a unique biodiversity.
L. A. Kuhn +4 more
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Geosciences, 2021 Late Cretaceous coastal plain deposits of the Prince Creek Formation (PCF) offer a rare glimpse into an ancient, high-latitude, arctic greenhouse ecosystem for which there is no modern analog.
James R. Bonelli, Peter P. Flaig
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Geomorphic effects of gravel mining on coastal plain rivers in Mazandaran, Iran [PDF]
Sustainable Earth Trends, 2021 Rivers in Iran are heavily influenced by human activities, so that they have undergone many changes. In the meantime, gravel mining is one of these activities that has several environmental impacts on the various aspects of river environments.
Mohammad Mehdi Hoseinzadeh, Reza Esmaili
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Genetic differentiation, structure, and a transition zone among populations of the pitcher plant moth Exyra semicrocea: implications for conservation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Pitcher plant bogs, or carnivorous plant wetlands, have experienced extensive habitat loss and fragmentation throughout the southeastern United States Coastal Plain, resulting in an estimated reduction to
Jessica D Stephens +2 more
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Historical Landscape Use of Migratory Caribou: New Insights From Old Antlers
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Accumulations of shed caribou antlers (Rangifer tarandus) are valuable resources for expanding the temporal scope with which we evaluate seasonal landscape use of herds.
Joshua H. Miller +8 more
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