Remote Sensing, 2020 Mapping coastal dune vegetation is critical to understand dune mobility and resilience in the context of climate change, sea level rise, and increased anthropogenic pressure.
Quentin Laporte-Fauret +9 more
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Field measurements of beach-dune dynamic profiles to assess erosion hazard on the coast of NSW, Australia [PDF]
, 2014 The coast of New South Wales (NSW), Australia is about 2000 km long and consists of 721 sandy beaches (68%), rock coastline (32%), and more than 185 estuaries. It is most populated in Australia and one of the NSW greatest assets with significant economic,
Baldock, Tom +4 more
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Hierarchical organization of a Sardinian sand dune plant community [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 Coastal sand dunes have attracted the attention of plant ecologists for over a century, but they have largely relied on correlations to explain dune plant community organization.
Valentina Cusseddu +2 more
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Mechanisms of Surviving Burial: Dune Grass Interspecific Differences Drive Resource Allocation After Sand Deposition [PDF]
, 2018 Sand dunes are important geomorphic formations of coastal ecosystems that are critical in protecting human populations that live in coastal areas. Dune formation is driven by ecomorphodynamic interactions between vegetation and sediment deposition. While
Courtemanche R. P. +10 more
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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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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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‘This restless enemy of all fertility’: exploring paradigms of coastal dune management in Western Europe over the last 700 years [PDF]
, 2015 Drifting sand has inundated settlements and damaged agricultural land along the coasts of Western Europe for the last 700 years. The need to control sand migration has been an important driver of the management of coastal sand dunes and here we analyse ...
Angus S +54 more
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Characterization of wind-blown sediment transport with height in a highly mobile dune (SW Spain) [PDF]
, 2015 The Valdevaqueros dune is located at one of the windiest points of Europe, where the frequent occurrence of strong easterly winds has generated a highly mobile dune.
Gomez-Pina, Gregorio +4 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 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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