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What turns us off about green and blue spaces in cities? Understanding perceived problems and unpleasant experiences for more just urban planning, design and management

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The planning, design and management of urban green and blue spaces necessitate trade‐offs between these spaces' many benefits and their drawbacks, but knowledge of perceived problems and unpleasant experiences in urban green and blue spaces remains limited.
Alyssa L. Solvie   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence and Distribution of Nematodes from Coastal Sand Dunes in the Iberian Peninsula

open access: yesCoasts, 2023
Nematodes are a large and diversified zoological group with a wide global distribution, being able even to be present in habitats with extreme conditions.
Alba N. Ruiz-Cuenca, Joaquín Abolafia
doaj   +1 more source

Mid- to Late-Quaternary evolution of the Wilderness Barrier dunes, South Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Speciation with gene flow

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Biodiversity is threatened by human activities, with extinction debt accumulating rapidly. Many of these activities change the connectivity of populations, fragmenting existing population systems or bringing previously isolated populations or species into contact.
Zhiqin Long   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Flowering plant wealth of sand dunes and coastal areas of Kanniyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India

open access: yesEnvironment Conservation Journal
Qualitative floristic surveys were conducted in the sand dunes and coastal areas of Kanniyakumari district, one of the coastal districts of Tamil Nadu.
Sugaseelan Akash   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Accommodation space indicates dune development potential along an urbanized and frequently nourished coastline [PDF]

open access: yesEarth 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
doaj   +1 more source

The role of the synoptic‐scale conditions in driving fog and mist during the FATIMA July 2022 Sable Island Field program

open access: yesQuarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.
ERA5 hourly 325‐m and 1512‐m (a) convergence and (b) vertical motion (actually pressure change with sign reversed to compare with convergence) over Sable Island around the time of an event. The mist (green) and fog (red) occurrences at the surface station are shown at the bottom of the figures. A 325‐m fitted line convergence was positive for the first
Clive E. Dorman   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The sedimentology and dynamics of mega-dunes, Jamuna river, Bangladesh [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
This thesis quantifies the occurrence, morphology and flow dynamics of dune bcdforms in the main rivers of Bangladesh: the Jamuna, Meghna and Ganges. Field work was conducted as part of the River Survey Project (Bangladesh Flood Action Plan 24) between ...
Roden, Julie Elizabeth
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Ground‐based robotic remote sensing for standardized biodiversity monitoring in coastal habitats

open access: yesRemote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Illustrated workflow of the proposed citizen‐to‐robot monitoring pipeline: (i) expert‐validated citizen observations are translated into AI models, (ii) deployed on a ground‐based robotic platform for proximal sensing of coastal dune habitats, (iii) enabling standardized detection of ecological targets (e.g., Pancratium maritimum & Brithys crini), and (
Giovanni Di Lorenzo   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A comparative study of Corynephorus canescens (L.) P.Beauv. communities of inland sand dunes in England and Poland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of Wolverhampton for the degree of Doctor of PhilosophyInland sand dunes supporting Grey Hair-grass Corynephorus canescens are a declining European habitat designated for conservation ...
Blunt, Arthur Godfrey
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