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Rula Domínguez, Celia Olabarria and Elsa Vázquez
Extreme climate events, such as heatwaves and torrential rain, affect the physiology and functioning of marine species, especially in estuarine habitats, producing severe ecological and socioeconomic impacts when the affected species support important fi...
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Polina Lemenkova and Olivier Debeir
This paper addresses the issue of the satellite image processing using GRASS GIS in the mangrove forests of the Niger River Delta, southern Nigeria. The estuary of the Niger River Delta in the Gulf of Guinea is an essential hotspot of biodiversity on the...
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Kit-Ling Lam, Yu-Hin Lam, Angie Ying-Sim Ng, Ken Kwok-Yin So, Nora Fung-Yee Tam, Fred Wang-Fat Lee and Wing-Yin Mo
Mangrove wetlands are vulnerable coastal ecosystems that provide critical habitats for aquatic life. Tai O is a popular tourist village on Lantau Island, Hong Kong, which is surrounded by mangrove wetlands with rich biodiversity; and this village is also...
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Stefania Lisco, Tamara Lazic, Cataldo Pierri, Daniela Mele, Alessia de Luca and Massimo Moretti
Sabellaria spinulosa (Leukhart, 1849) is a suspension feeding polychaeta that lives in tubes consisting of terrigenous particles captured by the worm itself. They form impressive reefs containing millions of worm tubes. In temperate marine areas, under o...
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Evgeny Abakumov
Rendzinas in the taiga zone are intrazonal soils; moreover, all of their processes occur in ways that are different from podzolic soil formation, which is typical for the zonal taiga boreal ecosystem. At the same time, the habitats of carbonate soils are...
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Mariana Machado Toffolo, Federica Grilli, Catia Prandi, Stefano Goffredo and Mauro Marini
Climate change is one of the main problems currently strongly conditioning ecosystems all over the world. Coastal lagoons are amongst the most vulnerable habitats, and they are undergoing extensive human impact due to their high production rates and the ...
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Giorgio Anfuso, Matteo Postacchini, Diana Di Luccio and Guido Benassai
Coastal area constitutes a vulnerable environment and requires special attention to preserve ecosystems and human activities therein. To this aim, many studies have been devoted both in past and recent years to analyzing the main factors affecting coasta...
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Samantha Gauthier, Bradley May and Liette Vasseur
Coastal communities are increasingly vulnerable to climate change and its effects may push coastal ecosystems to undergo irreversible changes. This is especially true for shorebirds with the loss of biodiversity and resource-rich habitats to rest, refuel...
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Francisco Silveira, Carina Lurdes Lopes, João Pedro Pinheiro, Humberto Pereira and João Miguel Dias
Coastal floods are currently a strong threat to socioeconomic activities established on the margins of lagoons and estuaries, as well as to their ecological equilibrium, a situation that is expected to become even more worrying in the future in a climate...
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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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