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Hyperspectral and Lidar: Complementary Tools to Identify Benthic Features and Assess the Ecological Status of Sabellaria alveolata Reefs

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020
Sabellaria alveolata is a sedentary gregarious tube-building species widely distributed from southwest Scotland to Morocco. This species builds what are currently considered the largest European biogenic reefs in the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel (France). As
Touria Bajjouk, Cecile Jauzein, Lucas Drumetz, Mauro Dalla Mura, Mauro Dalla Mura, Audrey Duval, Stanislas F. Dubois   +6 more
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Ecological water quality of the Three Gorges Reservoir and its relationship with land covers in the reservoir area: implications for reservoir management

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023
In this study, we evaluated the ecological water quality of the entire Three Gorges Reservoir (TGR) and further examined the relationship with changes in watershed land covers.
Lin Ye, Kefeng Chen, Jingjing Cheng, Lu Tan, Min Zhang, Xiaoguang Zhang, Xiaoguang Zhang, Qinghua Cai   +7 more
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Current Status of the Tardigrada: Evolution and Ecology [PDF]

Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2002
The Tardigrada are bilaterally symmetrical micrometazoans with four pairs of lobopod legs terminating in claws or sucking disks. They occupy a diversity of niches in marine, freshwater, and terrestrial environments throughout the world. Some have a cosmopolitan distribution, while others are endemic.
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Protected yet unmanaged: insights into the ecological status of conservation priority stony reefs in Belgian waters based on the integrative use of remote sensing technologies

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023
Stony reefs are ecologically important, providing irreplaceable ecosystem services. These fragile environments are recognised as conservation priorities by all relevant global and European policies.
Giacomo Montereale Gavazzi, Giacomo Montereale Gavazzi, Silvia Paoletti, Pavlina Podholova, Danae-Athena Kapasakali, Francis Kerckhof   +5 more
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Harmonization of the assessment method for classifying the ecological quality status of very large Greek rivers

Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, 2018
The intercalibration exercise is required by the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) to harmonize the national ecological class boundaries across Member States.
Lazaridou Maria, Ntislidou Chrysoula, Karaouzas Ioannis, Skoulikidis Nikolaos, Birk Sebastian   +4 more
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Assessment of the Ecological Status of Rongjiang Estuary (China) Under Human Pressure, Using Biotic Indices Based on Benthic Macroinvertebrates

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2021
Rongjiang River, the second largest river system in Guangdong Province, flows through the main urban areas of Jieyang and Shantou cities before reaching the South China Sea.
Yafang Li, Yafang Li, Lianggen Wang, Lianggen Wang, Jiajia Ning, Jiajia Ning, Lei Xu, Lei Xu, Delian Huang, Delian Huang, Shuangshuang Liu, Shuangshuang Liu, Feiyan Du, Feiyan Du   +13 more
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The influence of environmental factors on caudate amphibians at the national, regional and european level: synthetic eco-evolutionary analysis

Acta et Commentationes: Ştiinţe Exacte şi ale Naturii, 2022
Based on the data obtained in the field and those selected from the specialized literature, there was carried out a synthetic eco-evolutionary analysis of the biology, ecology and ethology of the populations of caudate amphibians at the national ...
Tudor Cozari
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GEOECOLOGICAL MAPPING OF URBAN AREAS (ON THE EXAMPLE OF BIROBIDZHAN)

InterCarto. InterGIS, 2015
Мethodological bases of geoecological mapping of urban areas are considered and validated. A series of thematic maps with a priority for displaying the environmental situation of the urban environment, a component-by-component and integrated, are ...
V. B. Kalmanova
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How Agriculture, Connectivity and Water Management Can Affect Water Quality of a Mediterranean Coastal Wetland

Agronomy, 2022
The Natural Park of Albufera (Valencia, Spain) is an important Mediterranean coastal wetland that suffers continuous environmental effects from human activities and water uses, mainly related to agriculture and urban/industrial sewage discharges. The aim
Lucía Vera-Herrera, Susana Romo, Juan Soria   +2 more
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Characterization of Green Infrastructure at the Local Level with Geographical Information System, Tunja (Colombia)

Revista Facultad de Ingeniería, 2019
This article presents a characterization of the areas likely to integrate a Green Infrastructure (GI) for the Tunja city at local scale and spatial analysis is mainly applied to the land cover and land use of the study area.
Cristian Camilo Hernández-Rojas, Rigaud Sanabria-Marín, Ph. D.   +1 more
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