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Mohamed Khalfan Mohamed, Elhadi Adam and Colbert M. Jackson
Mangroves in Zanzibar have a high value for biodiversity and scenic beauty. However, mangroves are susceptible to anthropogenic and natural environmental disturbances. Although global mangrove monitoring systems exist, it is the practitioners focused on ...
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Elena A. Hensel, Martin Kehl, Luisa Wöstehoff, Katharina Neumann, Ralf Vogelsang and Olaf Bubenzer
The Sodicho Rockshelter in the southwestern Ethiopian Highlands presents a unique site that contains sediments of Upper Pleistocene and Holocene occupation phases of hunter-gatherer communities. Excavations and previous geoarchaeological research provide...
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Izchel Gómez, Rodolfo Silva, Debora Lithgow, Janner Rodríguez, Anastazia Teresa Banaszak and Brigitta van Tussenbroek
In a relatively short timescale (less than 50 years), urbanization has caused many anthropogenic disturbances that have affected ecosystem health and, directly or indirectly, quality of life for the local human population. Global disturbances, such as cl...
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Valery Bondur and Viktor Zamshin
This paper focuses on a detailed analysis of coastal waters under the conditions of the intense anthropogenic impacts of submerged wastewater discharges, using optical and radar satellite images. The features of the intense anthropogenic impacts on the c...
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Iman Salehi Hikouei, Jason Christian, S. Sonny Kim, Lori A. Sutter, Stephan A. Durham, Jidong J. Yang and Charles Gray Vickery
Saltmarshes, known to be ecologically sensitive areas, face disturbances such as vegetation dieback due to anthropogenic activities such as construction. The current construction specifications recommended by state highway agencies do not specifically re...
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Madeline A. Grupper, Madeline E. Schreiber and Michael G. Sorice
Provision of safe drinking water by water utilities is challenged by disturbances to water quality that have become increasingly frequent due to global changes and anthropogenic impacts. Many water utilities are turning to adaptable and flexible strategi...
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Afghan Afghan, Carlo Cerrano, Giorgia Luzi, Barbara Calcinai, Stefania Puce, Torcuato Pulido Mantas, Camilla Roveta and Cristina Gioia Di Camillo
Sandy beaches provide several ecosystem services such as coastal protection and resilience, water filtration and nutrient mineralization. Beaches also represent a hub for social, cultural and economic relationships as well as educational activities. Incr...
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Andres Velastegui-Montoya, Aline de Lima and Marcos Adami
The expansion of hydroelectric dams that is planned, and under construction, in the Amazon basin is a proposal to generate ?clean? energy, with the purposes of meeting the regional energy demand, and the insertion of Brazil into the international economi...
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Kai Duan, Jiali Guo, Tiesong Hu, Xianxun Wang and Yadong Mei
Decreases in wind speed (i.e., terrestrial stilling) and radiation (i.e., solar dimming) have been identified as important causes of aridity change both globally and regionally. To understand how their roles have varied across different natural and socio...
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Mi-Jung Bae and Young-Seuk Park
Freshwater organisms are facing threats from various natural and anthropogenic disturbances. Using data sampled on a nationwide scale from streams in South Korea, we identified the crucial environmental factors influencing the distribution and abundance ...
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