Fragmentation of rangeland habitat in coastal California
Biogeography ; Bird ; California ; Coastal environment ; Deforestation ; Environmental degradation ; Population dynamics ; Suburbanization ; United States of America
Fragmentation of forests in the USA creates edge habitats which favor parasites and predators of nesting birds. A. studies this phenomenon in Coastal California, with detailed examples from Sonoma County where suburbanisation has exacerbated
A wind tunnel simulation of the dynamic processes involved in sand dune formation on the western coast of Hainan Island
China ; Coastaldynamics ; Coastal environment ; Dune ; Island ; Sand ; Simulation ; Spatial distribution
the development pattern. The presence or absence of forest shelter belts also influences deposition and dune development patterns and transformation of dune forms. Coastal dunes and inland desert dunes experience similar dynamic processes, but the former have more
The coastal dunes on the western coast of Hainan Island are influenced by factors such as onshore winds, sand sources, coastal slopes, rivers, and forest shelter belts. The source of the sand that supplements these dunes, particularly influences
longshore drift. The dynamics of the dunefield are compared to the dynamics of other late Holocene coastal dunefields in northwest Europe.
budget of the dunefield and to discuss dunefield dynamics in relation to characteristics of the wind, sediment supply, sea level and human influence. The Vejers dunefield formed on a prograding shoreline supplied with large quantities of sediment from
Geomorphic assemblage of the Gulf of Kachchh coast, western India : implications in understanding the pathways of coastal sediments
Coastaldynamics ; Coastal environment ; Coastal geomorphology ; Grain size distribution ; Gulf ; India ; Indian Ocean ; Quaternary ; Sediment transport
, in response to the active coastaldynamics observed in the offshore. Results and discussion about the 2 major sources of theses sediments : the Indus river and the hinterland. The coast betwen Mandvi and Mundra is acting as a transition zone for the sandy
coast to its west and mud-dominated coast to its east. The coastal segment between Mundra and Vadinar acts as a prominent sink for suspended sediments.
The shallowing of the Blankenberge harbour entrance channel is caused by a complex of interacting coastal processes, acting with different intensities at different places within the coastal zone. The channel which is perpendicular to the shore forms
an obstacle to longshore eolian and longshore aquatic sediment movement, causing a clear mutual interaction between the choking of the channel and nearby beach dynamics. The present article highlights this interaction as well as the importance of sediment
Lithostratigraphy and sedimentology of a coastal cliff, NW Poland
Last ice sheet dynamics and deglaciation in the North European Plain
Coastal environment ; Deglaciation ; Glacial features ; Glacial tectonics ; Model ; Palaeogeography ; Poland ; Stratigraphy
the glacial dynamics during the Pomeranian phase in NW Poland, for which two different models exist. Investigations have been carried out at coastal cliffs east of Świnoujście, where it is possible to get good lithostratigraphic control of the Weichselian
Dynamic geomorphology of the Israeli coast: a brief review in Coastal problems, in the mediterranean sea.
Wave climate. Longshore sediment transport. Shelf sediment transport. Nearshore bar systems. Dunes. The net transport direction between Haifa and Tel-Aviv. The effects of coastal structures. Future sediment transport along the Israeli Coast.
International Geographical Union. (UGI). Commission on the Coastal Environment, International
Coastally trapped disturbances in the lower atmosphere : dynamic commonalities and geographic diversity
These disturbances are trapped by the existence of a subsidence inversion at a height below the crest of barrier-like coastal mountains and propagate alongshore with the coast on the right (left) in the Northern (Southern) Hemisphere. It is shown
that the fundamental dynamics of the disturbances is in each case governed by the hydrostatic and semigeostrophic approximations. The latter implies that a geostrophic balance exists between the alongshore velocity of the motion and the across-shore pressure gradient.
Beach ; Coastaldynamics ; Coastal environment ; Dune ; Human impact ; KwaZulu-Natal ; South Africa
and fluvial deposits. Through understanding coastal processes, insight can be gained as to how coastlines will respond to human impacts and environmental trends. - (AJC)
The purpose of this review is to examine the literature on developed coasts to identify the many ways that human activities alter coastal landforms, to reveal the pervasive nature of the conversion process and to demonstrate why human alterations
Human impact in the Holocene fluvial and coastal evolution of the Marche region
Archeological site ; Braided channel ; Climatic variation ; Coastal environment ; Coastal erosion ; Fluvial dynamics ; Holocene ; Human impact ; Italy ; Land use ; Marche (Italy) ; Marine transgression ; Meander ; Palaeogeography ; Pollen analysis
In this paper, an attempt is made to provide a long-term perspective for understanding the evolution of the fluvial and coastal features of the Marche region. This review therefore benefits greatly from the opportunities afforded to study a large
This paper attempts to establish the response of two coastal barriers on the north County Dublin coastline to continued modification of the adjacent estuarine environments, over the last two centuries, by urbanisation, reclamation, land drainage
autogenic changes between the various components of the coastal system.
Recent coastal change in Canterbury - the case of Lake Forsyth/Wairewa
Brackish environment ; Coastaldynamics ; Coastal environment ; Coastal geomorphology ; Freshwater environment ; Lake ; New Zealand ; Pool ; Sand bar ; Sea level ; South Island
The main objective in this work has been to develop load models/load diagrams for coastal areas where the environmental effect of nutrient discharges in general, and from fish farms in particular, can be related to the dose of nutrients (nitrogen
and/or phosphorus) together with the sensitivity of the area. One hypothesis is that different coastal areas have different sensitivities to one and the same dose of nutrients and that this sensitivity is determined mainly by the coastal morphometry, water turnover
Australia ; Catastrophe ; Cliff ; Coastaldynamics ; Coastal environment ; Coastal geomorphology ; Dating ; Erratic boulder ; New South Wales ; Thermoluminescence ; Tsunami
The Jervis Bay area offers a diversity of landforms that do not fit within contemporary views of coastal evolution. Field evidence indicates that catastrophic tsunami have had a significant impact on the coast and its hinterland both within
and outside the embayment. The AA. describe a wide array of features formed by them, such as coastal barriers, rocky cliffs and platforms, and dunes, found along the coast of southeastern Australia.