Sea-level changes through the Quaternary era have provided recurrent opportunities for the biosphere to significantly shape the coastal geomorphology of eastern Africa. Key agents in this shaping have been the calcium carbonate-fixing biota that have constructed the oceanfacing fringing reefs and produced the extensive backreef sediments that form the limestone platforms, cliffs and terraces th...

1 Benaki Phytopathological Institute, Department of Pesticides Control and Phytopharmacy, Laboratory of Pesticides’ Toxicology, 8 St. Delta Street, Kifissia, 14561 Athens, Greece, 2 Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering 34469, Maslak, Istanbul/Turkey 2 Department of Agriculture, Crop production and Rural Environment Analytical Chemistry and Pesticides...

Our ocean, coasts, and Great Lakes should be vibrant, healthy, and productive. When they are, they provide places for anglers, boaters, beach lovers, divers, and others to enjoy the bounty and beauty of our waters and shores. They provide critical ecological benefits, while supporting important human activities such as maritime commerce and shipping, energy production, and national security. Th...

Due to the determination of the pollution status of fresh resources in the Egyptian territorial waters is very important for public health; this study was carried out to reveal the levels of heavy metals in the shellfish and their environment and its relation to the highly developed industrial activities in those areas. A total of 100 shellfish samples from the Rosetta, Edku, El-Maadiya, Abo-Ki...

Paleontological data provide essential insights into the processes shaping the spatial distribution of present-day biodiversity. Here, we combine biogeographic data with the fossil record to investigate the roles of parallelism (similar diversities reached via changes from similar starting points), convergence (similar diversities reached from different starting points), and divergence in shapi...

The wave climate is highly variable temporally and spatially, depending mainly on the atmospheric conditions fetch extensions. Wave one of main causes coastal erosion processes, together with anthropogenic pressure river sedimentary balance. Therefore, a detailed spatial temporal knowledge very important in managing areas planning defense works. This paper describes an analysis carried out alon...