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Coasts
Humans have modified coastlines. Sometimes this has been deliberate, as with the construction of various coastal defenceCoastsdefence structures, but...
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Assessing coastal carbon variability in two Delaware tidal marshes
Coastal wetlands provide numerous ecosystem services, including the ability to sequester and store carbon. Recent initiatives, such as the U.S....
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Status and prospects of nature-based solutions for coastal flood and erosion risk management in the Federal State of Schleswig–Holstein, Germany
Political attention for and research on nature-based solutions in coastal flood an erosion risk management has increased significantly in recent...
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Bridging the gap between coastal engineering and nature conservation?
Under the umbrella term of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) fall measures from a wide range of disciplines. With regard to coastal protection, coastal...
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Ground Subsidence
Ground subsidenceSubsidence is a pervasive feature of landscapes. There are many processes that cause it: changing groundwater conditions, solutional...
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Interactions between vegetation dynamic and edaphic factors in the Great Salt Desert of central Iran
Investigating the relationships between vegetation dynamic and edaphic factors provide management insights into factors affecting the growth and...
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Potential Effects of Episodic Deposition on Nutrients and Heavy Metals in Decomposing Litters of Suaeda glauca in Salt Marsh of the Yellow River Estuary, China
Episodic deposition has been recognized as a major factor affecting the decomposition rate of detrital material in salt marshes. In this paper, three...
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Human Impacts
Humans have played an ever-increasing role in landscape modification in drylands. There have been changes to hydrological systems because of dam and...
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Spatial effects of shrub encroachment on wetland soil pH and salinity in the Yellow River Delta, China
The encroachment of woody shrubs in grass-dominated coastal salt marsh ecosystems has potentially influenced soil physical and chemical processes at...
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Evaluating the effects of land use/land cover change on the emergence of hazardous dust sources in the Tigris-Euphrates Basin
Land use/land cover (LULC) change contributes significantly to the formation of hotspot dust sources (HDSs). The Tigris-Euphrates Basin (TEB), a...
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Investigation on biological activities for combating desertification in the western shores of Lake Urmia, Northwest Iran
Lake Urmia, Northwest Iran, has confronted a drying procedure in recent years with losing 90% of its water body. The authorities concerned about...
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Ecological problems and ecological restoration zoning of the Aral Sea
The Aral Sea was the fourth largest lake in the world but it has shrunk dramatically as a result of irrational human activities, triggering the “Aral...
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Stage 3 of the Anthropocene—Stewardship
The third stage of the AnthropoceneAnthropocene is a time of stewardship. Many important landform examples are now being protected by means of World...
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Soils of Floodplain Landscapes of the River Selenga Basin
AbstractThe factors of formation and patterns of spatial differentiation of soils within the floodplain landscapes of the River Selenga and its...
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Flood vulnerability under sea level rise for a coastal community located in a backbarrier environment, Portugal
Sea level rise will be a major threat to coastal communities within the next century due to the intensity and severity of the floods it can cause. A...
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Estimating the change in the rational runoff coefficient through history in Jefferson County, Texas
Jefferson County in Texas has experienced devastating storms in recent years resulting in billions of dollars in damages. The county has gone through...
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Soil Organic Carbon Contents and Stocks in Coastal Salt Marshes with Spartina alterniflora Following an Invasion Chronosequence in the Yellow River Delta, China
Plant invasion alters the fundamental structure and function of native ecosystems by affecting the biogeochemical pools and fluxes of materials and...
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Rapid losses of intertidal salt marshes due to global change in the Gironde estuary (France) and conservation implications for marshland passerines
We analysed coastline movements between 2000 and 2016 along the 24.5 km of the mesohaline region of the North bank of the Gironde estuary (France)....
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Changes of Biogenic Elements in Phragmites australis and Suaeda salsa from Salt Marshes in Yellow River Delta, China
Little information is available on biogenic elements (carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur) and the ecological stoichiometric characteristics of...
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Physical Characteristics of the Nile Delta’s Coastal Plain
Physical characteristics are considered essential driving factors for understanding coastal morphodynamics, processes, and dynamics and assessing...