Coastal Environments
Temporal Variations of the Chemical Composition of Three Seaweeds in Two Tropical Coastal Environments
... The seaweeds Chaetomorpha antennina, Gymnogongrus griffithsiae and Ulva fasciata were studied regarding tissue concentrations of total nitrogen, total phosphorus, total protein, hydrosoluble protein, total carbohydrate, ...
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Plastic pollution challenges in marine and coastal environments: from local to global governance
... Marine litter is as much a transboundary global problem as well as a local issue with a multitude of sources. An estimated 6–12 million tonnes of plastic enters the oceans each year (Jam- beck et al. 2015). The pollution ...
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Quantifying the Welfare Effects of Adaptation to Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss in Coastal Environments.
... To provide a perspective on the potential magnitude of short-run welfare loss, data from the auxiliary on-site user survey (Mansfield et al. 2010) is utilized to estimate these impacts. Unfortunately, the on-site survey ...
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The role of restoration in conserving matters of national environmental significance in marine and coastal environments
... into coastal waters, which smothered bivalve ecosystems and facilitated disease (Diggles ...during coastal development, these sediments generate runoff that can lower the pH and cause acidification of the ...
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Typhoon Haiyan’s sedimentary record in coastal environments of the Philippines and its palaeotempestological implications
... of coastal inundation may be indicated by mud deposits rather than by sand lay- ers ...extensive coastal flooding (unit 1 at TOL and HER), and (ii) a laminated, swash-induced, spatially limited washover ...
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Early Age Thermal Cracking of Mass Concrete Footings on Bridges in Coastal Environments.
... Large volumes of concrete have the potential to experience temperature gradients during curing that can lead to cracking. Concrete hydration is an exothermic reaction that can produce high amounts of heat during curing, ...
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Towards Achieving Sustainability of Coastal Environments: Urban Growth Analysis and Prediction of Lagos, State Nigeria
... Hence, coastal cities in many parts of the world experience a relatively higher population and urban growth rates than the national average trends (Wong et ...are coastal (UNDESA ...these coastal ...
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Study on Heavy Metal Distribution in the Coastal Environments along the Foremost Places of South-East Coast of India
... Arumuganeri coastal region are discharged directly or indirectly into the sea and hence there is more possibility for accumulation of large concentration of trace metals into the Gulf of Mannar marine ...
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Towards an integrated approach to the planning and management of coastal environments
... the coastal zone in Its own Institutes and Higher Education Institutes and undertakes strategic and applied research on commission from private and public sector ...the coastal zone is a dynamic and ...
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Economic Values of the Northern Territory Marine and Coastal Environments.
... The recreational values associated with southern beaches are unlikely to be readily transferable to the Northern Territory because: i) crocodiles and other marine hazards, together with the absence of ‘surf’, makes beach ...
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Establishing forensic search methodologies and geophysical surveying for the detection of clandestine graves in coastal beach environments.
... such environments easily accessible for clandestine burials of homicide ...the coastal environment is relatively infrequent compared to other terrestrial environments ([2] Harrison, ...within ...
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Algal bioremediation of waste waters from land-based aquaculture using Ulva: selecting target species and strains
... Our survey of natural populations and land-based aquaculture facilities in Eastern Australia identified six Ulva species, with U. ohnoi being the most common blade species and U. sp. 3 being the most common filamentous ...
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Correlation of Virgulinella fragilis Grindell & Collen (benthic foraminiferid) with near-anoxia in Aso-kai Lagoon, central Japan
... in coastal environments, whereas characteristic taxa of the Cluster A fauna, namely Trochammina, Ammonia, Rosalina and Elphidium, are common foraminifers in brackish ...
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Application of a coastal modelling code in fluvial environments
... The Shallow Water equation solver in XBeach has been seen to work well for river modelling scenarios, when compared to other codes developed for the fluvial environments. Furthermore, with an open source licence, ...
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The determinants of location specific choice: small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries
... This study adopts a resource-based view to model how location specific-factors among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in coastal environments in developing economies enable them to sustain clusters ...
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Mycoremediation of Oil Spill Using Human Hair as a Sorbent Material
... in coastal environments are: the use of booms, hard booms, sorbent booms, fire booms, skimmers, vacuum trucks, in situ burning, dispersants, and chemical ...
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Fluorescent Dissolved Organic Matter Dynamics in the Coastal Waters off the Central East Indian Coast (Bay of Bengal)
... estuarine environments formed from freshly produced phytoplankton and terrestrial organic matter ...and coastal environments and interpreted as an indicator of in situ DOM sources ...
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A geotechnical and GIS based method for evaluating risk exposition along coastal cliff environments: a case study of the chalk cliffs of southern England
... The analysis was undertaken by using the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) 4.0 (Himmelstoss, 2009), an ex- tension that was developed by the United State Geological Survey and co-operate with the Environmental ...
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Social Value of Marine and Coastal Protected Areas in England and Wales.
... and Coastal Access Act, 2009 will designate marine conservation zones and provide wider access rights to the ...and coastal environments attract many people and are vitally important in terms of ...
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Coastal ocean radars applied to coral reef science and management
... in coastal waters in near ...Australian Coastal Ocean Radar Network (ACORN), part of the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), incorporates both ...
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