Land reclamation and artificial islands: Walking the tightrope between development and conservation by Su Yin Chee, Abdul Ghapar Othman, Yee Kwang Sim, Amni Nabilah Mat Adam, Louise B. Firth

“…Comparisons of historical and current topographic maps revealed that land formerly consisting of coastal swamp and forest, mangrove forests, sandy beaches, and rubber and oil plantations have been lost to large-scale land reclamation and urbanisation. …”
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Construction of international important wetland White-headed crane ecological corridor in Chongming Dongtan, China by Zhili Xu, Bin Dong, Cheng Wang, Xiang Gao, Haifeng Xu, Zezhu Wei, Zhipeng Lu, Xiao Liu

“…The ecological corridors of White-headed cranes are mainly distributed in bare flat, reed beaches, grassland, and paddy fields. The optimal threshold of MSPA landscape in the study area is 500 m. …”
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Decoding the internesting movements of marine turtles using a fine-scale behavioral state approach by Armando J. B. Santos, Armando J. B. Santos, Joshua Cullen, Daniel H. G. Vieira, Eduardo H. S. M. Lima, Victoria Quennessen, Erik A. P. dos Santos, Claudio Bellini, Renata Ramos, Mariana M. P. B. Fuentes

“…We noted high fidelity to residence core areas and nesting beaches, within and between nesting seasons, with residence areas decreasing within a season.DiscussionThe latent behaviors identified provide the most detailed breakdown of turtle movement behaviors during the internesting period to date, providing valuable insights into their ecology and behavior. …”
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Observed Changes of a Mega Feeder Nourishment in a Coastal Cell: Five Years of Sand Engine Morphodynamics by Bart Roest, Sierd de Vries, Matthieu de Schipper, Stefan Aarninkhof

“…Recently, <i>mega feeder nourishments</i> have been proposed as a new strategy to nourish sediment-starving beaches. This strategy involves the placement of a large, concentrated sediment volume at a single location along the coast. …”
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Macro and micro nutrients in sediments of mangrove forests along Sungai Tiram Laut, Perak by Mohd Alifa, Usama, Gandaseca, Seca, Mohamad Pazi, Ahmad Mustapha, Rusly, Siti Amira Sariyatul, Hamzah, Ahmad Hanafi

“…Mangroves dominate the tropical and subtropical beaches of the world. Similar to other plant communities, nutrient availability is one of the main factors influencing mangrove forest structure and productivity. …”
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Heterologous production of L-glutaminase through screening and isolation from locally isolated microbes by Ramli, Aizi Nor Mazila, Tajuddin, Saiful Nizam, Zamri, Normaiza, Abd Hamid, Hazrulrizawati

“…In this study, the screening of bacteria-producing Lglutaminase had been implemented from three different Pahang Beaches known as Pantai Teluk Cempedak, Pantai Batu Hitam, and Pantai Balok. …”
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Age, growth, and recruitment patterns of juvenile ladyfish (Elops sp) from the east coast of Florida (USA) by Juan C. Levesque

“…Ladyfish (Elops sp) are a common and economically valuable coastal nearshore species found along coastal beaches, bays, and estuaries of the southeastern United States, and subtropical and tropical regions worldwide. …”
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Mapping and Quantifying Integrated Land Degradation Status of Goa Using Geostatistical Approach and Remote Sensing Data by V. G. Prabhu Gaonkar, F. M. Nadaf and Vikas Kapale

“…The state is blessed with beaches, mangroves, backwaters, wetlands, wildlife sanctuaries, evergreen forests, barren lands, and other vital ecosystems. …”
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Sedimentological Analysis of Regional Differentiation and Sediment Provenance in the Lu’erhuan River Sea Area of Qinzhou Bay, Guangxi Province by Ping Li, Jun Du, Zhiwei Zhang, Guoqiang Xu

“…The finest-grained sediment is imported from either inland or coastal areas via rivers and weak tidal currents, the next finest component comes from coastal areas through weak tidal currents, and the moderately coarse component mainly originates from nearby beaches. The two coarsest-grained sediment components are influenced by the combination of human activities, tidal currents and waves and enter the water via erosion. …”
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Persistent meanders and eddies lead to quasi-steady Lagrangian transport patterns in a weak western boundary current by M. B. Gouveia, R. Duran, J. A. Lorenzzetti, A. T. Assireu, R. Toste, L. P. de F. Assad, D. F. M. Gherardi

“…There is also an agreement between the large-scale oil slicks reaching the Brazilian beaches (from August 2019 to February 2020) and the strength of climatological attraction at the coast. …”
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Smart waste management perspective of COVID-19 healthy personal protective materials in concrete for decorative landscape pavements and artificial rocks by Ahmed Abd El Aal, Mabkhoot A. Alsaiari, Ahmed E. Radwan, Amr Fenais

“…Consequently, millions of single FM have been discharged into the wild, washing up on beaches, floating beneath the seas, and ending up in hazardous locations. …”
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Nationwide Subsidence in Bahrain Island: Drivers and Implications for Relative Sea-Level Rise by Jonathan C. L. Normand, Essam Heggy, Pascal Castellazzi

“…To assess the potential impact of subsidence on the shoreline, we measure the coastline evolution at three undisturbed beaches on the West coast from 1985 to 2021, excluding areas that underwent land reclamation. …”
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Nurdle drifters around South Africa as indicators of ocean structures and dispersion by Eckart H. Schumann, C. Fiona MacKay, Nadine A. Strydom

“…All these factors were included in an analysis to model nurdle dispersion from an accidental spill in Durban Harbour, South Africa, in October 2017. Nurdle sightings on beaches by members of the public are used as indicators of the dispersion which extended over 2000 km of the South African coastline in a period of 8 weeks. …”
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Diversity of Escherichia coli found in the Salish Sea by Jenny L. Grunwald, Peter Rabinowitz, Peter Rabinowitz, Scott J. Weissman, Marilyn C. Roberts

“…Sample sources included marine water near shellfish beds, marine wildlife, river otters, and a small number of marine water sites near beaches and freshwater samples from creeks into the Salish Sea. …”
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Phytotoxicity of Extracts of <i>Argemone mexicana</i> and <i>Crotalaria longirostrata</i> on Tomato Seedling Physiology by Henry López López, Mariana Beltrán Beache, Yisa María Ochoa Fuentes, Ernesto Cerna Chavez, Epifanio Castro del Ángel, Juan Carlos Delgado Ortiz

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Home range size and habitat use of the blue-crowned laughingthrush during the breeding season by Tao Liu, Yongtao Xu, Bai Mo, Jinze Shi, Yachang Cheng, Weiwei Zhang, Fumin Lei

“…The available habitats in the breeding sites included water areas, shrubs, grass plots, woodland, residential areas, vegetable field, farmland, and sandy beaches; among them, only woodland was significantly preferred by BCLTs. …”
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Towards an Integrated Observational System to Investigate Sediment Transport in the Tidal Inlets of the Lagoon of Venice by Gian Marco Scarpa, Federica Braga, Giorgia Manfè, Giuliano Lorenzetti, Luca Zaggia

“…During typical northeasterly storms, materials mobilized on the beaches and in the shoreface are transported into the inlet and distributed into the lagoon channel network, following the flood tidal currents and determining net import of materials. …”
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Defining a single set of calibration parameters and prestorm bathymetry in the modeling of volumetric changes on the southern Baltic Sea dune coast by Natalia Bugajny, Kazimierz Furmańczyk

“…In the first phase of the study, the profile (1D) mode of the model was adapted to 19 cross-shore profiles located along the Dziwnów Spit.The model was calibrated with a storm event in 2009 that caused significant changes to dunes and beaches. Cross-shore profiles were measured approximately one and a half months before and after the storm. …”
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Quantification and classification of the main environmental impacts on a Halodule wrightii seagrass meadow on a tropical island in northeastern Brazil by Maria Elisa Pitanga, Manuel J.F. Montes, Karine M. Magalhães, Thiago N.V. Reis

“…The present study identified the main anthropogenic factors that negatively influenced over the abundance and distribution of seagrass meadows between July and September 2007 at the Jaguaribe and Pilar Beaches, Eastern littoral of Itamaracá. Anthropogenic impact included the discharge of untreated sewage through fluvial channels, urban and commercial development along the coast, the anchoring of motorized and non-motorized boats, diverse fishing techniques and the dumping of solid waste. …”
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On clutch size and hatching success of the South American turtles Podocnemis expansa (Schweigger, 1812) and P. unifilis Troschel, 1848 (Testudines, Podocnemididae) by Paulo Emilio Vanzolini

“…Data on clutch size and hatching success of P. expansa were gathered for seven beaches traditionally used by the species and re-analyzed statistically by means of regression analysis, of the number of eggs on the number of females (or nests) and of the number of young on the number of eggs. …”
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