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Detecting social‐ecological fit in Natura 2000 governance and management: Evidence from LIFE projects focused on forest protected habitat types

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Protected areas represent complex social‐ecological systems that require governance and management approaches that valorise and enhance positive relationships between people and nature. This study analyses the alignment between social and ecological systems to detect the social‐ecological fit of projects focused on biodiversity conservation ...
Elena Andriollo, Elena Pisani, Mauro Masiero, Tommaso Sitzia, Thomas Campagnaro   +4 more
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Population dynamics of Agriophyllum squarrosum along an ecosystem restoration chronosequence in the Tengger Desert, China: Indication implications for desertification combating

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021
Agriophyllum squarrosum, an annual native herb pioneer species, is associated with shifting sand dunes along the southern edge of the Tengger Desert, China.
Quanlin Ma, Linyuan Wei, Fang Chen, Dekui Zhang, Xinyou Wang   +4 more
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Population Dynamics of Northern Pearl Dace Margariscus nachtriebi in Anthropogenically Altered Headwater Streams of the Nebraska Sandhills Ecoregion

River Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Empirical evidence of population demographic responses to environmental perturbations is a major knowledge gap for aquatic vertebrate populations. Extensive habitat alteration including channelization of headwater streams influences the habitat template on which small‐bodied fish are dependent to carry out distinct life stages and maintain or ...
Joseph Spooner, Jonathan Spurgeon
wiley   +1 more source

Retrospective image analysis for long‐term demography using Google Earth imagery

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
We demonstrate that high‐resolution Google Earth imagery, combined with minimal field validation, enables retrospective tracking of individual invasive plants. The image shows one of the monitored individuals of Opuntia sp. in Greece. Our approach reveals long‐term demographic patterns, recruitment dynamics, and spatial expansion without continuous ...
Erola Fenollosa, Garrett Cohen, Roberto Salguero‐Gómez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vegetation development in a sand dune ten years after restoration, Parque Municipal das Dunas da Lagoa da Conceição, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina [PDF]

Biotemas, 2010
The vegetation cover of a sand dune was surveyed ten years after the improvement of a restoration project that utilized seed sowing, seedling planting and seedling transplantation from an adjacent area with watering in the first months. On the upper part
Nina Rosa Zanin Zanella, Marisa Prudencio, Tânia Tarabini Castellani   +2 more
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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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Ground‐based robotic remote sensing for standardized biodiversity monitoring in coastal habitats

Remote 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, Simonetta Bagella, Micaela del Valle Rasino, Maria Laura Carranza, Manolo Garabini, Franco Angelini   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ammophila Invasion Ecology and Dune Restoration on the West Coast of North America

Diversity, 2021
The invasive ecosystem engineer Ammophila arenaria, native to Europe, was first introduced to California (USA) in 1896. More than a century later, it has come to dominate coastal foredune vegetation on the west coast of North America to the near ...
Andrea J. Pickart
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Isolation, Insularity and Resilience: A Review of the Geophysical, Socioeconomic, and Environmental Vulnerabilities of Gran Canaria and Lesvos Islands for Policy Interventions to Global Change

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The dynamic nature of small islands being geographically isolated and their perceived connectedness with global networks complicates research attempts to draw general conclusions on whether insularity leads to marginalization or strengthens their resilience for sustainable development.
Toheeb Lekan Jolaosho, Mazen Marouani, Takwa Boughanmi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A field experiment on the use of biogeotextiles for the conservation of sand-dunes of the Baltic coast in Lithuania

Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, 2012
Extreme damage was caused by wave and wind erosion on sand dunes on the Baltic coast near Palanga in Lithuania. Waves breached a wide ‘corridor’ or ‘blowout’ through the coastal sand dune. A progressively widening breached blowout developed.
Benediktas Jankauskas, Genovaite Jankauskiene, Michael A Fullen   +2 more
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