Coastal environments, in particular heavily populated semi-enclosed marginal seas and
coasts like the Baltic Sea region, are strongly affected by human activities. A multitude of …

Beach nourishments are a widely used method to mitigate erosion along sandy shorelines.
In contrast to hard coastal protection structures, nourishments are considered as soft …

Accurate, robust and consistent coastline mapping is critical for characterising and
managing coastal change. Satellite earth observation provides an unparalleled source of …

The amount of marine litter, mainly composed by plastic materials, has become a global
environmental issue in coastal environments. Traditional monitoring programs are based on …

Monitoring beach plastic contamination across space and time is necessary for
understanding its sources and ecological effects, and for guiding mitigation. This is …

This baseline reports scientific evidence of marine litter items embedded in the dune volume
at two study sites on the North Atlantic Portuguese coast. We described how stranded litter …

Shoreline change information is critical for effective management of the coastal zone. This
study presents a low-cost method for mapping shoreline change that harnesses smartphone …

There are a large number of geophysical processes affecting sea level dynamics and
coastal erosion in the Baltic Sea region. These processes operate on a large range of …

To assess how sandy beach biodiversity is influenced by the effects of environmental
features and urbanization, we sampled the macrofauna in the whole across-shore gradient …

The intertidal zone represents a critical transition between marine and terrestrial
ecosystems, supporting a complex mosaic of highly productive and biologically diverse …