Anthropogenic marine debris (AMD) is an environmental pollution that affects life, human health, wellbeing, and the economy. This litter can deposit in coastlines, particularly on tidal zones beaches. To pursue future mitigation strategies to reduce AMD important monitor amount, type frequency of being dumped shores. study presents composition, temporal distribution, abundance size three sandy ...

potential capability of heterotrophic bacteria for extracellular enzyme synthesis and their activity were determined in a transect from dunes to a water depth of 1 m in a sandy beach near sopot on the southern Baltic coast. Among studied enzymes, alkaline phosphatase, esterase lipase, and leucine arylaminase were synthesized in a higher degree, whereas α-fucosidase, β­glucouronidase and α-galac...

This article examines the market reaction of the main Property and Casualty (P & C) insurance companies listed in the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to seven most recent hurricanes that hit the East Coast of the United States from 2005 to 2012. For this purpose, we run a standard short horizon event study in order to test the existence of abnormal returns around the landfalls. P & C com...

Eighteen sandy beaches were sampled along the 1659 km of the Galician coast (NW Spain) six months after the Prestige oil-spill to study the impact of the fuel and the clean-up activities on the macroinfauna community. A transect was extended at each beach, from above the drift line to below the swash line at five sampled levels; at each level six 0.05 m2 replicates were taken to a depth of 30 c...

On sandy beach nursery grounds along the west coast of Ireland, 0 year-group turbot Scophthalmus maximus were found to consume six types of crustaceans, in addition to polychaetes. The 0 year-group brill Scophthalmus rhombus fed almost exclusively on mysids, even though nine taxonomic prey groups were identified in the sediment across the investigated beaches. Both species avoided non-motile or...

Hijli nut (Cashew nut of Bengal) or Hijli Bcidam of Hijli, Midnapur, generally known as Kajn on the east and west coasts of India, is a native of tropical South America, whence it was introduced into India by the Portuguese some tmie in the 17th century in their Goa territory ; and even up to the present day it is nowhere so abundant as in the western coast of this country. It has, however, bec...

Twitter became an important channel to contribute and consume all kinds of information, especially in times of disasters, when people feel the need for fast, real-time flows of information. Given the wealth of information Twitter provides, that information can be used by practitioners and researchers alike to study what people affected by a disaster talk about, e.g., to develop a situation awar...

Many studies have quantified debris collected on beaches around the world. Only a few of those studies have been conducted in the United States, and they are largely limited to semi-quantitative efforts performed as part of volunteer clean-up activities. This study quantifies the distribution and composition of beach debris by sampling 43 stratified random sites on the Orange County, California...

The sandy substrate of Lake Taharoa (west coast, North Island, New Zealand 35°50'S, 173°41'E) is covered by communities of filamentous algae that extend from the exposed beach down to 21 m depth. The algae bind the sand to form crusts and mats which may break off as discrete plates. The dominant species are the blue-greens Microcoleus, Nostoc, Phormidium, Lyngbya, Oscillatoria, Scytonema, Stigo...