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Miquel Mir-Gual, Guillem X. Pons, Irene Delgado-Fernández and Thomas A. G. Smyth
Blowouts are integral features of coastal dune fields. Their presence enhances both geomorphological and ecological diversity and enables the movement of sand by wind. Their role as a ?transport corridor? may be, however, considered negative from a coast...
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Carmelo Maximiliano-Cordova, Rodolfo Silva, Edgar Mendoza, Valeria Chávez, M. Luisa Martínez and Rusty A. Feagin
Coastal dune restoration projects are increasingly seen as a means of protecting the coast against storms, especially with the use of natural (plants), artificial (geotextile tube cores) and hybrid (plants and geotextile tube) elements. As geotextile tub...
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Constantin Schweiger and Holger Schuettrumpf
This paper presents and validates a novel root model which accounts for the effect of belowground biomass on dune erosion volumes in XBeach, based on a small-scale wave flume experiment that was translated to a larger scale. A 1D-XBeach model was calibra...
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Antoni Calafat, Sara Vírseda, Raúl Lovera, Joan Ramon Lucena, Carme Bladé, Lluís Rivero and Josep M. Ninot
The Remolar beach-dune system (700 m long and more than 100 m wide, 070N direction) borders a campground that was closed (2003), due to the Barcelona airport expansion. In order to recover and restore the dune ecosystem, a series of soft measures were pe...
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Pua Bar Kutiel and Michael Dorman
Since ecological phenomena and patterns vary with scale, scalar analysis is a developing practice in ecology. Scalar analysis is most valuable in heterogeneous environments, since habitat heterogeneity is a key factor in determining biodiversity. One suc...
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Tania L.F. Bird, Pua Bar (Kutiel), Elli Groner and Amos Bouskila
Substantial evidence now suggests that a positive diversity?stability relationship exists. Yet few studies examine the facets of biodiversity that contribute to this relationship, and empirical research is predominantly conducted on grassland communities...
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Niki Evelpidou, Alexandros Petropoulos, Anna Karkani and Giannis Saitis
Coastal lagoons and dunes are of great ecological importance, not only for providing habitats for rare flora and fauna, but also for protecting coastal areas from rising sea levels and storms, etc. Even though these features are unique for sustainable de...
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Masato Yokobori, Yoshiaki Kuriyama, Takenori Shimozono and Yoshimitsu Tajima
Predicting the morphological changes of the backshore is vital for appropriate beach management because the backshore plays a significant role in the ecosystem and disaster prevention. In this study, a one-dimensional model was developed and applied to t...
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Maria A. Winters, Brian Leslie, Evyan Borgnis Sloane and Timu W. Gallien
A novel hybrid (e.g., vegetation, sand, cobble, rip-rap) nature-based dune structure was constructed at Cardiff State Beach in Encinitas, California, to protect a critical transportation artery from undermining and frequent flooding. A collaboration betw...
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Katherine Brodie, Ian Conery, Nicholas Cohn, Nicholas Spore and Margaret Palmsten
Coastal foredunes are topographically high features that can reduce vulnerability to storm-related flooding hazards. While the dominant aeolian, hydrodynamic, and ecological processes leading to dune growth and erosion are fairly well-understood, predict...
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