Grande Riviere Beach in Trinidad and Tobago is an important nesting site in the Caribbean for the Critically Endangered leatherback sea turtle, Dermochelys coriacea. Community members were concerned that beach erosion and seasonal river flooding were destroying many of the nests deposited annually and thought that a hatchery was a possible solution. Over the 2001 turtle nesting season, the Inst...

erosion plots were selected for characterizing the effects of main natural factors on runoff and soil loss in a semi-arid region. these erosion plots with an area of 40 m2 are located in the kakhk experimental watershed in gonabad county of khorasan-e razave province in the north-eastern iran. data acquired from 2008 to 2015 include slope, aspect, soil texture and land covers (canopy and litter...

Erosion plots were selected for characterizing the effects of main natural factors on runoff and soil loss in a semi-arid region. These erosion plots with an area of 40 m2 are located in the Kakhk experimental watershed in Gonabad County of Khorasan-e Razave Province in the north-eastern Iran. Data acquired from 2008 to 2015 include slope, aspect, soil texture and land covers (canopy...

Major reforestation programs have been initiated on hillsides prone to erosion and landslides in China, but no framework exists to guide managers in the choice of plant species. We developed such a framework based on the suitability of given plant traits for fixing soil on steep slopes in western Yunnan, China. We examined the utility of 55 native and exotic species with regard to the services ...

The life-sized, naturalistic reliefs at the Camel Site in northern Arabia have been severely damaged by erosion. This, coupled with substantial destruction of surrounding archaeological landscape, has made a chronological assessment site difficult. To overcome these problems, we combined results from wide range methods, including analysis surviving tool marks, weathering and erosion patterns, p...

Abstract. Climate changes, sea transgression and coast erosion observed today cause dynamic changes in coastal ecosystems. In the elaboration, effect interrelations between abiotic hazards (hydrometeorological conditions morphodynamics) biotic (Cephalanthero rubrae-Fagetum phytocoenosis) components of natural environment have been defined. An up-to-date phytosociological analysis a very valuabl...

Wind erosion of soil is an appreciable but unstudied event following fires in cold desert. We examined aeolian transport of sediment for 1 year following fire in semi-arid shrub steppe on loess soils in southern Idaho, USA. Sediment collectors were used to determine horizontal mass transport of soil and saltation sensors and anemometers were used to determine saltation activity (fraction of tim...

Relocation of eggs is a common strategy for conservation of declining reptilian populations around the world. If individuals exhibit consistency in their nest-site selection and if nest-site selection is a heritable trait, relocating eggs deposited in vulnerable locations may impose artificial selection that would maintain traits favoring unsuccessful nest-site selection. Conversely, if most in...

Abstract Purpose Loess landscapes are highly susceptible to soil erosion, which affects stability and productivity. Erosion is non-linear in time space determines whether soils form or degrade. While the spatial variability of erosion often assessed by either modelling on-site measurements, temporal trends over decades millennia very lacking. In this study, we determined long- short-term rates ...

Oxia Planum, the planned landing site of ExoMars ‘Rosalind Franklin’ rover, is a low relief clay-bearing plain, which approximately 1% covered by 396 upstanding isolated landforms (‘mounds’). The mounds are continuous with circum-Chryse mound population representing remnants regionally significant Noachian-aged deposit. This detailed study suggests that Planum also erosional this deposit, littl...