Coastal Dune
Climate variability impacts on coastal dune slack ecohydrology
... 2010). Dune formation in western Ireland is still on-going but, in most cases, involves the reworking of existing sediments with limited supply of new ...Irish coastal dunes, aquatic systems occur in lulls ...
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Global change and response of coastal dune plants to the combined effects of increased sand accretion (burial) and nutrient availability.
... by dune grasses or whether other factors are involved ...alter dune community composition, distribution and abundance ...mobile dune species to respond to burial may largely depend upon the ...
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A meta-analysis of plant facilitation in coastal dune systems: responses, regions, and research gaps
... in coastal dune vegetation has increasingly focused on facilitation between ...plants. Coastal dune vegetation, here defined as a mosaic of plant communities in the coast that occupy sandy ...
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Large-scale transgressive coastal dune behaviour in Europe during the Little Ice Age
... on coastal communities, has not yet been fully ...massive dune mobilization across Europe, relating it to the onset of storminess periods, relative changes in sea level, or even human ...of coastal ...
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A whole plant approach to evaluate the water use of mediterranean maquis species in a coastal dune ecosystem
... the dune vegetation has also to cope with a prolonged summer drought, which can be partially avoided by deep rooting species if a relatively shallow fresh water table is ...
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Responses of coastal dune forests to groundwater changes : insights from mediterranean and tropical ecosystems
... Mediterranean dune sites, especially in summer, soil and twig samples were immediately stored in airtight vials, sealed with a cap and Parafilm, and placed in cool conditions to avoid ...
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Foraging ants on the extrafloral nectaries repel nectar thieves but not the effective pollinator of Vigna luteola (Fabaceae) in a Mexican coastal sand dune
... The presence of EFNs on plants may enhance the mutualistic interactions between potential pollinators and other organisms with some interactions being antagonistic. This study clearly shows that floral visitors are ...
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Dune Ecosystem Management of the Razim-Sinoie Littoral Bar (Romania)
... The Razim-Sinoie lagoon complex is located in the south-eastern part of Romania. It is bordered by the Dobrudja region to the west and north, the Danube Delta to the north-east and the Black Sea to the east. An ...
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Fine-scale patterns of vegetation assembly in the monitoring of changes in coastal sand-dune landscapes
... on dune ecosystem composition, structure and function is dependent on the level of understanding of interactions among species and between these and their environment, such as the processes related to sand burial ...
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Responses of woody species to spatial and temporal ground water changes in coastal sand dune systems
... in coastal dunes with some patches of mature pine (Pinus pinaster) for- est ...this coastal dune is low, with the exception of GW exploitation for the construc- tion of natural gas reservoirs, by the ...
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Annual dune plant communities in the Southwest coast of Europe
... Both communities are physically separated by an extension superior to 100 km, of rocky cliffs, coastal limestone and granite platforms, between Lisbon and Carvoeiro Cap (Peniche). From a biogeographical point of ...
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Green areas in coastal cities
... infrastructures. Coastal systems support a wide variety of social, economic and natural services and are directly affected by multiple human ...in coastal zones and the efficiency of planning and regulation ...
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DUNE sensitivities to the mixing between sterile and tau neutrinos
... simplicity, we have assumed a 90% flat efficiency as a function of the reconstructed visible energy. The experimental observable for a NC event is a hadronic shower with a certain visible energy (energy deposited in the ...
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Mestre em Water and Coastal Management
... Eucalyptus globulus e Pinus pinaster ); caracterização dos índices de mobilização / translocação e armazenamento de arsénio, por Eucalyptus globulus Labill e Eucalyptus nitens Mai[r] ...
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Black Sea coastal forecasting system
... Georgian coastal zone (Kordzadze and Deme- terashvili, 2011) The basin-scale Black Sea nowcasting and forecasting system forms a basis for the initial and boundary conditions of the coastal ...the ...
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Coastal hypoxia and sediment biogeochemistry
... The hypoxia-induced changes in benthic community structure and functioning have major consequences for sed- iment biogeochemistry via their effects on the intensity and depth distribution of bio-irrigation and particle ...
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Coastal zone dynamics and fragilities
... 3 - Coastal climate has peculiar characteristics due to the proximity to the ocean. We will focus on the wind (direction, speed and the special case of the breeze and " front breeze"), temperature and ...
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Intelligent simulation of coastal ecosystems
... During the project implementation, it became evident the need to further explore the potential hybridization between ecological modelling and computer sciences, name[r] ...
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Lizard assemblage from a sand dune habitat from southeastern Brazil: a niche overlap analysis
... Regarding the niche overlap along the three axes, our data highlights the importance of the trophic axis in structuring the local lizard assem- blage, under the assumption of niche breadth retaining (RA3 simulations). ...
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From coastal defense to coastal adaptation. The role of costal boundary lines in coastal management plans: a comparative study between Portugal and South Africa
... a coastal management approach, this short-term measure does not have the erosive negative effects associated with hard ...addition, dune nourishment may eventually fill some gap resulting from beach ...
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