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Hassien Alnashiri, Liju Thomas, Maqbool Thaikkottathil, Siby Philip, Ranjeet Kutty, Sureshkumar Sivanpillai and Ali Mohammed Abo Rasain
Chitons (Polyplacophora) are marine molluscs that mostly inhabit rocky intertidal shores. Their biological and phylogenetic studies are comparatively sparse in the western Indo-Pacific regions. In addition, chitons belonging to the subfamily Acanthopleur...
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Ana Catarina Torres, Marcos Rubal, Ricardo Costa-Garcia, Isabel Sousa-Pinto and Puri Veiga
Nowadays, coastal urbanization is one of the most serious and prevalent pressures on marine ecosystems, impacting their biodiversity. The objective of this study was to explore differences in attributes and biodiversity associated with an intertidal ecos...
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Apostolia Komi, Alexandros Petropoulos, Niki Evelpidou, Serafeim Poulos and Vasilios Kapsimalis
The coastal zone may be considered as the location where the marine and land environments interact dynamically and coexist with human societies. Globally, natural and human systems are being severely threatened by the sea level rise related to climate ch...
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Sangil Kim, Sun Kyeong Choi, Seohyeon Van, Seong Taek Kim, Yun Hee Kang and Sang Rul Park
Intraspecific variation in morphology is widespread among seaweed species in different habitats. We examined the morphological variation in Sargassum thunbergii involving diverse environmental factors. We quantified 16 morphological characteristics on 15...
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Giovanni De Falco, Simone Simeone, Alessandro Conforti, Walter Brambilla and Emanuela Molinaroli
The compatibility of sediments in terms of grain size, composition and colour among beaches and strategic sediment deposits (SSD) along Western Sardinia (Western Mediterranean Sea) were assessed to explore management strategy in the protection and adapta...
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Stijn Bruneel, Wout Van Echelpoel, Long Ho, Heleen Raat, Amber Schoeters, Niels De Troyer, Ratha Sor, José Ponton-Cevallos, Ruth Vandeputte, Christine Van der heyden, Nancy De Saeyer, Marie Anne Eurie Forio, Rafael Bermudez, Luis Dominguez-Granda, Stijn Luca, Tom Moens and Peter Goethals
Oceanic islands harbor unique yet fragile marine ecosystems that require evidence-based environmental management. Among these islands, the Galapagos archipelago is well known for its fish diversity, but the factors that structure communities within and b...
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Ezatollah Ghanavati, Majid Shah-Hosseini and Nick Marriner
The SE coast of Iran is of great economic and environmental importance. Global climate change affects this coastline through sea level rise (SLR), compounded by a decrease in sediment budgets in coastal areas. This study developed a Coastal Vulnerability...
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Catalina Vasquez-Carrillo and Kathleen Sullivan Sealey
This paper describes the unique natural communities and biodiversity of the upwelling coastal system along the Guajira peninsula in the southern Caribbean Sea. The Guajira peninsula has a small human population with limited infrastructure and limited opp...
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Markes E. Johnson, Erlend M. Johnson, Rigoberto Guardado-France and Jorge Ledesma-Vázquez
Previous studies on the role of hurricanes in Mexico?s Gulf of California examined coastal boulder deposits (CBDs) eroded from limestone and rhyolite sea cliffs. Sedimentary and volcanic in origin, these lithotypes are less extensively expressed as rocky...
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Sérgio P. Ávila, Markes E. Johnson, Ana Cristina Rebelo, Lara Baptista and Carlos S. Melo
Modern and palaeo-shores from Pleistocene Marine Isotope Substage 5e (MIS 5e) featuring prominent cobble/boulder deposits from three locations, on the southern and eastern coast of Santa Maria Island in the Azores Archipelago, were compared, in order to ...
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