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Yizhou Zhuang, Xiaoyao Hu, Wenbin He, Danyi Shen and Yijun Zhu
Landslides not only cause great economic and human life losses but also seriously affect the safe operation of infrastructure such as highways. Rainfall is an important condition for inducing landslides, especially when a fault and weak interlayer exist ...
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Yoav Me-Bar, Ayelet Miller, Baruch Ephraim Karlin and Deborah Cvikel
The force required to drag a stone anchor over several types of surfaces was measured, recorded, and analyzed. It was found that the force involved in the movement of the anchor over the various surfaces cannot be described just by the sliding solids the...
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Salvatore Savastano, Paula Gomes da Silva, Jara Martínez Sánchez, Arnau Garcia Tort, Andres Payo, Mark E. Pattle, Albert Garcia-Mondéjar, Yeray Castillo and Xavier Monteys
Coasts are continually changing and remote sensing from satellites has the potential to both map and monitor coastal change at multiple scales. Unlike optical technology, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is uninfluenced by darkness, clouds, and rain, poten...
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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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Rasha Hamdy, Noha Elebiary, Faiza Abdel Naby, Jacopo Borghese, Mohamed Dorgham, Amira Hamdan and Luigi Musco
The complex mixture of anthropogenic pressure determines the impact on the marine biota, hampering the ecosystem?s functioning. The coast of Alexandria, Egypt, experiences multiple human pressure, including sewage discharge, engineering activities (urban...
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Annalisa Azzola, Virginia Picchio, Valentina Asnaghi, Carlo Nike Bianchi, Carla Morri, Alice Oprandi and Monica Montefalcone
Climate change is affecting rocky reef ecosystems in a multitude of ways at global scale. During summer 2018, the rocky reef communities of Portofino Marine Protected Area (MPA) (NW Mediterranean) were affected by thermal anomalies, a mucilaginous event,...
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Nicola Bettoso, Lisa Faresi, Valentina Pitacco, Martina Orlando-Bonaca, Ida Floriana Aleffi and Lovrenc Lipej
In the northern Adriatic Sea, rocky outcrops called ?trezze? or ?tegnúe? are known as biodiversity hotspots. A total of 45 rocky outcrops were studied by using non-destructive photographic sampling during SCUBA diving. Ten invertebrate phyla with 196 tax...
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Sang Lyeol Kim, Hyung Gon Lee, Yosup Park and Ok Hwan Yu
Pollution associated with marine debris is of global ecological concern, as it threatens wildlife and local economies. Submerged marine debris alters local benthic species composition and community characteristics. The study site of Jaguri, Jeju Island, ...
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Zhimeng Zhao and Qinghe Wang
Preferential flow is the most common form of water loss occurring at the interface between rock and soil (hereinafter referred to as ?rock?soil interface?) in karst areas, and it is also one of the important factors causing soil water leakage into the un...
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Diego Carreira-Flores, Puri Veiga, Jesús Fernández-Gutiérrez, Pedro T. Gomes and Marcos Rubal
Scavenging fauna plays an integral role in ecosystem functioning, nutrient cycling and circulating organic matter. Thus, baseline data of scavenger assemblages on the NW coast of the Iberian Peninsula that provides information on the abundance of species...
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