Managed realignment: A viable long-term coastal management strategy? [PDF]
, 2014 Climate change and environmental and financial concerns have led to a shift from the traditional ‘hold-the-line’ approach of coastal protection towards more flexible soft engineering options.
Slomp Esteves, Luciana
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High resolution palaeoenvironmental analyses of coastal wetland sediments from South East Sicily [PDF]
, 2000 This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.This study examines the sedimentology of salt marshes and lagoonal sediments from coastal wetland settings in south east Sicily. Palaeoenvironmentasl tudies
Turner, S.D., Turner, Simon David
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Bio-physical controls on tidal network geomorphology [PDF]
, 2014 The copyright of this thesis rests with the author and no quotation from it or information derived from it may be published without the prior written consent of the authorLooking over a tidal wetland, the tidal network characterised by its intricate ...
Belliard, Jean-Philippe
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Salt marsh as a coastal filter for the oceans: changes in function with experimental increases in nitrogen loading and sea-level rise. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Coastal salt marshes are among Earth's most productive ecosystems and provide a number of ecosystem services, including interception of watershed-derived nitrogen (N) before it reaches nearshore oceans.
Joanna L Nelson, Erika S Zavaleta
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Journal of Remote Sensing, 2023 Salt marshes are one of the world's most valuable and vulnerable ecosystems. The accurate and timely monitoring of the distribution and composition of salt marsh vegetation is crucial.
Jiahao Zheng +5 more
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Composition of fish communities in macrotidal salt marshes of the Mont Saint-Michel bay (France) [PDF]
, 2000 At least 100 fish species are known to be present in the intertidal areas (estuaries, mudflats and salt marshes) of Mont Saint-Michel Bay. These and other comparable shallow marine coastal waters, such as estuaries and lagoons, play a nursery role for ...
Lefeuvre, Jean-Claude +2 more
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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023 Salt-marsh plants play important roles in the hydrodynamics and sediment transport and deposition processes in coastal regions. The Delft3D model was applied to quantify the influence of salt-marsh plants on the hydrodynamic characteristics and suspended
Hengzhi Jiang +3 more
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Can thin-lipped mullet directly exploit the primary and detritic production of European macrotidal salt marshes? [PDF]
, 2002 Juveniles and adults (>100 mm) of Liza ramada colonize macrotidal salt marsh creeks of Mont Saint-Michel bay (France)between March and November, during spring tide floods (43% of the tides) and return to coastal waters during the ebb.
Lefeuvre, Jean-Claude +5 more
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Impact of sheep grazing on juvenile sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax L., in tidal salt marshes [PDF]
, 2000 The diet of young of the year sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax L., from sheep grazed and ungrazed tidal salt marshes were com-pared qualitatively and quantitatively in Mont Saint-Michel Bay.
Lefeuvre, Jean-Claude +2 more
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Biodiversity in salt marshes: from the patrimonial value to the ecosystem functioning. The case study of the Mont Saint-Michel bay. [PDF]
, 2003 Until 1979, European salt marshes were known only through the inventories of fauna and especially of flora. On such criteria, the salt marshes of the Mont-Saint-Michel bay (France) were regarded as most significant of the French coasts.
Lefeuvre, Jean-Claude +9 more
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