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The biology of coastal sand dunes [PDF]
Choice Reviews Online, 2009 Coastal zones are becoming increasingly topical (and politically sensitive) as they face relentless pressures from urban expansion, recreational development and sea level rise due to climate change. This timely book provides a comprehensive introduction to the formation, dynamics, maintenance and perpetuation of coastal sand dune systems.
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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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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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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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Biomorphogenic Feedbacks and the Spatial Organization of a Dominant Grass Steer Dune Development
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Nature-based solutions to mitigate the impact of future climate change depend on restoring biological diversity and natural processes. Coastal foredunes represent the most important natural flood barriers along coastlines worldwide, but their area has ...
Dries Bonte +14 more
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Accommodation space indicates dune development potential along an urbanized and frequently nourished coastline [PDF]
Earth Surface Dynamics, 2019 With densely populated areas well below mean sea level, the Netherlands relies heavily on its dunes to ensure coastal safety. About half of the sandy coastline, however, is subject to structural marine erosion and requires frequent sand nourishment as a ...
C. Nolet, M. J. P. M. Riksen
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Remote Sensing, 2021 Nowadays, the employment of high-resolution Digital Surface Models (DSMs) and RGB orthophotos has become fundamental in coastal system studies. This work aims to explore the potentiality of low-cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) surveys to monitor the ...
Stefano Fabbri +3 more
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Seacoast Marshelder, Iva imbricata
EDIS, 2018 Seacoast marshelder is an important plant for dune restoration, stabilization, and formation because of its ability to trap sand. It grows on foredunes and forms low, rounded dunes as sand accumulates (Craig 1991).
Debbie Miller +4 more
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Indonesian Journal of Geography, 2013 This papaer assesses development of coastal sand dunes particulary along tropical coast. in depth study along on coastal dune morphology along Medinipur coastal track shows that sea levels remained very dynamic during the Holocene period.
Sudip Dey, Pijush Ghosh, Amitava Nayak
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