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28 years of vegetation change (1978 – 2006) in a calcareous coastal dune system [PDF]

, 2010
Changes in vegetation structure and composition over a 28 year period (1978–2006) following removal of human-induced disturbances, were examined in a calcareous coastal dune system in Point Nepean National Park (380 19’S, 1440 41’E) in south-eastern ...
Turner, Vivienne, Douglas, Imelda, Moxham, Claire, Walker, Gidja   +3 more
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Indicator-based assessment of coastal dune ecosystem degradation using historical land-cover change and UAV-LiDAR microtopography

Environmental and Sustainability Indicators
Coastal sand dunes, which support numerous valuable plant species, are experiencing severe decline and degradation driven by development and coastal erosion.
Yuki Yamanaka, Keiko Nagashima, Yasutaka Nakata   +2 more
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Dune System Restoration in Osório Municipality (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil): Good Practices Based on Coastal Management Legislation [PDF]

, 2013
Dune Management Plans are useful tools to integrate coastal development, dune conservation and even dune restoration. The environmental legislation of Rio Grande do Sul (South of Brasil) establishes a Permanent Preservation Area of 60-m minimum width ...
Manzolli, Rogerio Portantiolo, Portz, Luana, Alcántara-Carrió, Javier, Nancy L. Jackson, Karl F. Nordstrom   +4 more
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Significant Coastal Dune Loss Challenges California's Climate Resilience and Biodiversity Goals

Earth's Future
Coastal sand dunes support unique biodiversity and buffer beaches and communities against storm impacts. However, these sensitive and dynamic ecosystems are increasingly threatened by erosion, sea‐level rise (SLR), and encroaching coastal development ...
T. I. Baxter, I. J. Walker, J. E. Dugan, D. M. Hubbard, L. Engeman, K. A. Emery, S. Vitousek, K. K. Johnston, A. J. Pickart, S. Smith, D. R. Fee, D. Willett, J. Wisniewski   +12 more
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Tracking environmental changes in restored Mediterranean dune slacks

Science of The Total Environment, 2019
Restoration is an ecological tool that aims to recover the prior conditions and functioning of a degraded habitat. Three restoration projects targeted a dune slack system in the Eastern Iberian Peninsula and created a mosaic of ponds restored over three different periods: 1998, 2003 and 2007, the latter coinciding with the start of our study ...
Olmo Rodríguez, Carla, Antón Pardo, María, Ortells Bañeres, Raquel, Armengol Díaz, Javier   +3 more
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Coastal protection and conservation on sandy beaches and dunes: context‐dependent tradeoffs in ecosystem service supply

Ecosphere, 2017
Managing multiple ecosystem services (ESs) across landscapes presents a central challenge for ecosystem‐based management, because services often exhibit spatiotemporal variation and weak associations with co‐occurring ESs.
Reuben G. Biel, Sally D. Hacker, Peter Ruggiero, Nicholas Cohn, Eric W. Seabloom   +4 more
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C:N:P stoichiometry in plant, soil and microbe in Sophora moorcroftiana shrubs across three sandy dune types in the middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023
The alpine sandy dune ecosystem is highly vulnerable to global climate change. Ecological stoichiometry in plants and soils plays a crucial role in biogeochemical cycles, energy flow and functioning in ecosystems.
Ruizhen Dong, Shihai Yang, Xiaoli Wang, Lele Xie, Yushou Ma, Yanlong Wang, Litian Zhang, Min Zhang, Jinping Qin   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Early successional microhabitats allow the persistence of endangered plants in coastal sand dunes. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Many species are adapted to disturbance and occur within dynamic, mosaic landscapes that contain early and late successional microhabitats. Human modification of disturbance regimes alters the availability of microhabitats and may affect the viability of
Eleanor A Pardini, Kyle E Vickstrom, Tiffany M Knight   +2 more
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Monitoring report: sand dune reconstruction and restoration, at the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories [PDF]

, 1994
The Plan for Sand Dune Reconstruction and Restoration (and Biological Assessment) at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (ABA Consultants, April 1, 1992) described reconstruction of dune contours and biological restoration with native dune plants to be ...

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Morphological Performance of Vegetated and Non-Vegetated Coastal Dunes with Rocky and Geotextile Tube Cores under Storm Conditions

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023
Coastal dune restoration projects are increasingly seen as a means of protecting the coast against storms, especially with the use of natural (plants), artificial (geotextile tube cores) and hybrid (plants and geotextile tube) elements.
Carmelo Maximiliano-Cordova, Rodolfo Silva, Edgar Mendoza, Valeria Chávez, M. Luisa Martínez, Rusty A. Feagin   +5 more
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