Climate change is projected to increase stress for many coastal plant communities. Along large portions of the North American coast, habitat degradation from anthropogenic changes to the environment already threaten the community structure of tidal marshes and submerged aquatic grass beds. The potential loss of ecological services historically provided by these communities has been a long-stand...

It is important to understand the fate of terrestrial sediment into the coastal ocean, because it determines for example the seabed properties and the turbidity of the water column. Several recent initiatives, such as NOPP Community Sediment Transport Model, MURIUnderstading Wave-Mud Interaction and Tidal Mud Flats DRI have put forward new outstanding science and technical questions for coastal...

The coastal ecosystems of French Guiana are very complex and changing due to the presence of huge quantities of mud originating from the Amazon. have been studied for more than a decade. Due to access difficulties through both land and sea, the use of remote sensing has always been essential, and the understanding of the complex landscapes was greatly improved when airborne and spaceborne imagi...

Salt marshes are among the most abundant, fertile, and accessible coastal habitats on earth, and they provide more ecosystem services to coastal populations than any other environment. Since the Middle Ages, humans have manipulated salt marshes at a grand scale, altering species composition, distribution, and ecosystem function. Here, we review historic and contemporary human activities in mars...

Human recreational activities and tourism are concentrated on the islands and in coastal waters, often depending on the maintenance of high water quality. The managing of impacts of urbanization and industrialization on the coastal zone ecology has become a high priority for many nations such as Malaysia and, hence, the need to develop better methods for monitoring and predicting change in isla...

Research on sustainable management of the coastal zone is motivated by the fierce competition for natural resources between different categories of users along the coast. Knowledge-based management will be able to base its decision-making on information representing the complex nature of the coast. The research carried out in the research programme Sustainable Coastal Zone Management (SUCOZOMA)...

Introduction The coastal oceans are among the most challenging marine environments in the world. They are subject to the combined geometrical constraints of irregular coastlines and highly variable (steep and tall) bathymetry, and are forced both internally, laterally and surfacially by a complex array of tidal, wind and buoyancy forces on a broad range of space/time scales. The resulting coast...

Water clarity is a key parameter of coastal ecology, as well as being important to some near-shore Naval operations. The clarity of the water column depends upon the depth-dependent distribution of the inherent optical properties and the geometric structure of the light field (an apparent optical property). Our long-term goal is to develop the remote sensing techniques, data analysis, and model...

The coastal region of Chabahar Gulf with 1113.7km2 area has been located in the southeast of Iran. In this research, satellite images of ETM+ (2004) were used in order to zoning of sedimentary environments in this Gulf. Methodology of this research was baesd on synthesis of supervised and unsupervised classifications in GIS and ENVI softwares. Based on studies and calculat...

The implementation of advanced methods and technology in the field of marine ecosystems studies is important to assess the impact of pollutants on marine ecosystems and biodiversity and biota interactions, including reliable study of radionuclide and heavy metal content in soils, sediments and algae. Creation of data bases for long term environmental management of pollution; evaluation of ecolo...