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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"beach nourishment"”.
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Variabilidad espacio-temporal de la porosidad de la arena tras una regeneración de playa
… techniques. In this sense, periodic artificial nourishment is widely regarded as an acceptable method of beach and dune protection and restoration. According to Dean (2003), after beach nourishment activities are performed, sand volumetric evolution, particularly the proportion of sand volume …
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Effects Of A Shore Protection Project On Loggerhead And Green Turtle Nesting Activity And Reproduction In Brevard County, Florida
… Because females show fidelity to key nesting beaches, the management and physical characteristics of these beaches directly affect future generations of marine turtles and may be essential for the recovery of these threatened and endangered species. The impacts of beach restoration on …
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Multiple scenario analyses forecasting the impacts of sea level rise in Cape Town, South Africa
… main receptors which were identified were sandy beaches, rocky shores and built-up land. Permanent inundation would possibly change the appeal and the nature of the beaches and affect the tourism industry. Hence the coastline requires immediate attention as it is one of the most valuable assets …
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Barrier Island Morphodynamic Insights from Applied Global Sensitivity Analysis and Decadal Exploratory Modeling
… alternatives. Thin-layer placement and beach nourishment were found to be effective at sustaining the marsh and minimizing island retreat, respectively.
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Assessing the Effects of Sea-Level Rise on Piping Plover (Charadrius Melodus) Nesting Habitat, and the Ecology of a Key Mammalian Shorebird Predator, on Assateague Island
… plover habitat resulting from sea-level rise and beach management efforts by joining dynamic models of sea-level rise, shoreline change, island geomorphology and piping plover nest habitat suitability, and 2) quantifying occupancy and movement of the red fox (Vulpes vulpes), a key shorebird …
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Factors affecting Western Atlantic red knots (Calidris canutus rufa) and their prey during spring migration on Virginia's barrier islands
… the presence of both sand and peat substrates. Beach nourishment and stabilization projects are often used on coastal beaches to prevent shoreline erosion; however, such actions prevent the formation of peat banks by blocking island migration processes. A reduction in peat banks could decrease …
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Convexity, Concavity, and Human Agency in Large-scale Coastline Evolution
… different approaches to shoreline stabilization: beach nourishment (in which sediment is added to a coastline at a long-term rate that counteracts the background erosion), and hard structures (including seawalls and groynes). The results show that although both approaches have surprisingly …
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Dredge spoil dispersion from an inner shelf dump-mound
… the exchange zone between the inner shelf and beach systems. No serious environmental impacts of dredge spoil so far. Dumping can be assessed from the dumping of dredge spoil on the inner shelf are not very pumice do not effective for beach remain at the beach nourishment as fine sand and …
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Comportamiento funcional y ambiental de los diques exentos de baja cota de coronación y su importancia en la ingeniería de costas
… and massive town planning in the active area of beaches, etc. All these reasons lead to the erosion of a large number of beaches and their environmental and landscape degradation. This precarious coastline situation today constitutes a serious problem of great concern. Coastal Engineers, aware of …