Assessment of Shoreline Change from SAR Satellite Imagery in Three Tidally Controlled Coastal Environments by Salvatore Savastano, Paula Gomes da Silva, Jara Martínez Sánchez, Arnau Garcia Tort, Andres Payo, Mark E. Pattle, Albert Garcia-Mondéjar, Yeray Castillo, Xavier Monteys

“…This is assessed in three tidally controlled coastal study areas that represent sand and gravel beaches with different backshore environments: low-lying dunes and marsh; steep, rocky cliff; and urban environments. …”
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Caribbean-Wide, Negative Emissions Solution to Sargassum spp. Low-Cost Collection Device and Sustainable Disposal Method by Gray, Luke A., Bisonó León, Andres G., Rojas, Folkers E., Veroneau, Samuel S., Slocum, Alexander H.

“…<i>Sargassum</i> spp. blooms exacerbated by climate change and agricultural runoff are inundating Caribbean beaches, emitting toxic fumes and greenhouse gases through decomposition. …”
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Coastal erosion index using AHP and ANN for coastal manager. by Wan Khairuddin, Wan Norshuhada, Rambat, Shuib

“…Coastal erosion can be found on almost all of Malaysia's beaches, but it is particularly prevalent on the country's east coast. …”
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Marco geológico y tectónico de la Isla del Coco y la región marítima circunvecina, Costa Rica Geological and geotectonic framework of Isla del Coco and the marine zone off the cent... by Wilfredo Rojas, Guillermo E. Alvarado

“…Seismicity and rainfall have triggered landslides; liquefaction is restricted to Chatham and Wafer bays&#8217; beaches. Moderate historical and prehistorical tsunamis were related to regional seismic events. …”
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A Holistic Modeling Approach to Project the Evolution of Inlet-Interrupted Coastlines Over the 21st Century by Janaka Bamunawala, Janaka Bamunawala, Ali Dastgheib, Roshanka Ranasinghe, Roshanka Ranasinghe, Roshanka Ranasinghe, Ad van der Spek, Ad van der Spek, Shreedhar Maskey, A. Brad Murray, Trang Minh Duong, Trang Minh Duong, Trang Minh Duong, Patrick L. Barnard, T. A. J. G. Sirisena, T. A. J. G. Sirisena

“…Approximately one-quarter of the World’s sandy beaches, most of which are interrupted by tidal inlets, are eroding. …”
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Wave Forcing Assessment at Regional Scale in a Climate Change Scenario: The Sardinia Case Study by Davide Pasquali, Antonello Bruschi, Iolanda Lisi, Marcello Di Risio

“…The projection of average and mild energy conditions can indeed influence, just for example, the long-term morphodynamics of sandy beaches and the quality of bathing waters. Data extracted from the Copernicus database are considered. …”
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Past and Present Drivers of Karst Formation of Ciénega de El Mangle, Panama by Jaime Rivera-Solís, Adolfo Quesada-Román, Fran Domazetović

“…The geomorphology of the area results from intense evaporation combined with an influx of brackish groundwater, due to which a landscape has evolved in the marine–coastal strips, of seasonal tropical climates, that exhibit saline beaches, known as a littoral shott. In total, 24 karstic microdolines have evolved within the shott, of which six represent domical geoforms formed by gradual evaporitic precipitation, while seven other geoforms represent active karstic sinkholes filled with brackish water. …”
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Exceptional strandings of the purple snail Janthina pallida Thompson, 1840 (Gastropoda: Epitoniidae) and first record of an alien goose barnacle along the Ligurian coast (western M... by F. Betti, G. Bavestrello, M. Bo, M. Coppari, F. Enrichetti, M. Manuele, R. Cattaneo-Vietti

“…Thanks to citizens’ help, it was possible to create a map of the strandings and obtain a gross estimate of the number of beached gastropods. The densities of the stranded animals reached an overall average of 801 ± 215 specimens m−2 (with peaks of over 2000 shells and rafts m−2 densely packed with hydrozoan Velella velella sails), corresponding to an average biomass of about 1.5 kg m−2. …”
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Migration Corridors and Threats in the Gulf of Mexico and Florida Straits for Loggerhead Sea Turtles by Autumn R. Iverson, Allison M. Benscoter, Ikuko Fujisaki, Margaret M. Lamont, Kristen M. Hart

“…We use this tool with switching state-space modeling and line kernel density estimates to identify migration corridors of post-nesting adult female loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta, n = 89 tracks) that nested at five beaches in the Gulf of Mexico. Turtles migrated in both neritic and oceanic areas of the Gulf of Mexico with some exiting the Gulf. …”
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The Tricky Task of Fisher-Gardener Research in Conservation Paleobiology by Anna Clara Arboitte de Assumpção, Felipe Caron, Fernando Erthal, Fernando Erthal, Eduardo Guimarães Barboza, Eduardo Guimarães Barboza, Raphael Mathias Pinotti, Matias do Nascimento Ritter, Matias do Nascimento Ritter

“…To this end, we use the t-test (tt), Mann-Whitney (mw), and Bootstrap (bt) analyses to determine data scenarios for yellow clam (Amarilladesma mactroides) shells from two sambaquis units, and from two transects along the beaches of Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil. The study finds that the average body size of an Amarilladesma mactroides adult specimen is greater in sambaquis than the current valves across all tests (tt, p = 0.0005; mw, p = 0.006; bt, p = 0.04), even after reducing the sample number. …”
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Distribution of global sea turtle nesting explained from regional-scale coastal characteristics by Jakob C. Christiaanse, José A. A. Antolínez, Arjen P. Luijendijk, Panagiotis Athanasiou, Carlos M. Duarte, Stefan Aarninkhof

“…Abstract Climate change and human activity threaten sea turtle nesting beaches through increased flooding and erosion. Understanding the environmental characteristics that enable nesting can aid to preserve and expand these habitats. …”
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About terraces on the shore of the Teriberskaya Bay of the Barents Sea (the Kola Peninsula) by Neradovsky Yu. N., Miroshnikova Ya. A., Companchenko A. A., Chernyavsky A. V.

“…The erosion products of this terrace are common in the lateral zone and represent modern marine sediments, including beaches forming a new terrace. The 2nd terrace characterizes to the dynamics of rapid land rise by 30 m at a speed of about 11 mm/year, which occurred in the period from 6,000 to 3,300 years ago. …”
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Phylogeographic patterns of a lower intertidal isopod in the Gulf of California and the Caribbean and comparison with other intertidal isopods by Luis A. Hurtado, Mariana Mateos, Shuang Liu

“…Excirolana mayana is an intertidal isopod that is commonly found in sandy beaches throughout the Gulf of California. Its distribution in the Pacific extends from this basin to Colombia and in the Atlantic from Florida to Venezuela. …”
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Coastal Forest Structure Survey and Associated Land Crab Population in Suao Dakenggu Community, Yilan, Taiwan by Chia-Hsuan Hsu, Wei-Ta Fang, Hung-Kai Chiu, Wei-Cheng Kao, Tsung-Shun Huang

“…Artificial plantation has been performed locally in this area since 1977 to prevent the loss of beaches. The coastal forest area was estimated through drone aerial photography combined with a geographic information system. …”
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Investigation of urban birds as source of β-lactamase-producing Gram-negative bacteria in Marseille city, France by Edgarthe Priscilla Ngaiganam, Isabelle Pagnier, Wafaa Chaalal, Thongpan Leangapichart, Selma Chabou, Jean-Marc Rolain, Seydina Mouhamadou Diene

“…Abstract Background We investigate here the presence of multidrug-resistant bacteria isolated from stool samples of yellow-legged gulls and chickens (n = 136) in urban parks and beaches of Marseille, France. Bacterial isolation was performed on selective media, including MacConkey agar with ceftriaxone and LBJMR medium. …”
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Viability of multiple populations across the range of a species at risk: The case of Pitcher's thistle, Cirsium pitcheri, in Canada by Patrick L. Nantel, Judith Jones, Christine Drake

“…Also, for this monocarpic plant endemic to Great Lakes dunes and beaches, there are 35 years of monitoring data available for the populations in Pukaskwa National Park on Lake Superior, and nearly 17 years of data for populations on Lake Huron. …”
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A Prospective Study of the Exploitation of Pelagic <i>Sargassum</i> spp. as a Solid Biofuel Energy Source by Luis Bernardo López-Sosa, José Juan Alvarado-Flores, Juan Carlos Corral-Huacuz, Arturo Aguilera-Mandujano, Rosa E. Rodríguez-Martínez, Santiago José Guevara-Martínez, Jorge Víctor Alcaraz-Vera, José Guadalupe Rutiaga-Quiñones, Juan Zárate-Medina, María Liliana Ávalos-Rodríguez, Mario Morales-Máximo

“…Third we analyzed the energetic potential considering the estimated volume of pelagic <i>Sargassum</i> spp. that was removed from beaches along the Mexican Caribbean coast in recent years. …”
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Implementation of Recycling Cigarette Butts in Lightweight Bricks and a Proposal for Ending the Littering of Cigarette Butts in Our Cities by Abbas Mohajerani, Siu Qun Hui, Cary Shen, James Suntovski, Glen Rodwell, Halenur Kurmus, Marven Hana, Md Tareq Rahman

“…Our cities, parks, beaches, and oceans have been contaminated for many years with millions of tonnes of unsightly and toxic cigarette butts (CBs). …”
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Assessment of the 1783 Scilla landslide–tsunami's effects on the Calabrian and Sicilian coasts through numerical modeling by F. Zaniboni, F. Zaniboni, G. Pagnoni, G. Gallotti, M. A. Paparo, A. Armigliato, S. Tinti

“…<p>The 1783 Scilla landslide–tsunami (Calabria, southern Italy) is a well-studied event that caused more than 1500 fatalities on the beaches close to the town. This paper complements a previous work that was based on numerical simulations and was focused on the very local effects of the tsunami in Scilla. …”
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Metagenomic Characterization of Microbial Pollutants and Antibiotic- and Metal-Resistance Genes in Sediments from the Canals of Venice by James F. Curran, Luca Zaggia, Grazia Marina Quero

“…The outflowing jets of its tidal inlets thus represent a source of contamination for the nearby beaches on the barrier island separating the lagoon from the sea. …”
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