Ocean sprawl: challenges and opportunities for biodiversity management in a changing world

LB Firth, AM Knights, D Bridger, AJ Evans… - … and Marine Biology …, 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
LOUISE B. FIRTH1, ANTONY M. KNIGHTS2, DANIELLE BRIDGER3, ALLY J. EVANS4,
NOVA MIESZKOWSKA5, 6, PIPPA J. MOORE4, NESSA E. O'CONNOR7, EMMA V …

Nature-based flood protection: The efficiency of vegetated foreshores for reducing wave loads on coastal dikes

V Vuik, SN Jonkman, BW Borsje, T Suzuki - Coastal engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper analyses the effect of vegetation on wave damping under severe storm
conditions, based on a combination of field measurements and numerical modelling. The …

Identifying knowledge gaps hampering application of intertidal habitats in coastal protection: Opportunities & steps to take

TJ Bouma, J Van Belzen, T Balke, Z Zhu, L Airoldi… - Coastal …, 2014 - Elsevier
Over the last decades, population densities in coastal areas have strongly increased. At the
same time, many intertidal coastal ecosystems that provide valuable services in terms of …

The value of valuing nature

WM Adams - Science, 2014 - science.org
The complex ways in which humans depend on their natural environment are increasingly
expressed in terms of ecosystem services, which are often assigned economic values to …

Trade-offs between biodiversity and flood protection services of coastal salt marshes

JM van Loon-Steensma, P Vellinga - Current Opinion in Environmental …, 2013 - Elsevier
Highlights•Restoration of salt-marshes represents an attractive no-regret climate adaptation
strategy.•Due to the pace of sea level rise, there is still time to experiment with salt-marsh …

Surface wave attenuation by vegetation with the stem, root and canopy

F He, J Chen, C Jiang - Coastal Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
To experimentally study the performance of the stem, root and canopy on wave attenuation
by vegetation, a total of 112 laboratory experiments were conducted with seven vegetation …

Coastal and riverine ecosystems as adaptive flood defenses under a changing climate

BK van Wesenbeeck, W de Boer, S Narayan… - … Adaptation Strategies for …, 2017 - Springer
Adaptation planning for flood risk forms a significant part of global climate change response.
Engineering responses to higher water levels can be prohibitively costly. Several recent …

Physical modelling of water, fauna and flora: knowledge gaps, avenues for future research and infrastructural needs

RE Thomas, MF Johnson, LE Frostick… - Journal of hydraulic …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Physical modelling is a key tool for generating understanding of the complex interactions
between aquatic organisms and hydraulics, which is important for management of aquatic …

[HTML][HTML] Ecosystem of the Polish part of the Vistula Lagoon from the perspective of alternative stable states concept, with implications for management issues

R Kornijów - Oceanologia, 2018 - Elsevier
The alternative stable states concept finds broad application in reference to both terrestrial
and aquatic ecosystems. For some reason, attempts to implement the concept to explain …

Impact of anthropogenically created canopy gaps on wave attenuation in a Posidonia oceanica seagrass meadow

J Colomer, M Soler, T Serra, X Casamitjana… - Marine Ecology …, 2017 - int-res.com
Fixed weights moorings, once removed, can create longitudinal gaps in seagrass meadows
of different sizes, running perpendicular to the coast. We quantified the interactions between …