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• Revetments
  ...as sloping structures and are often constructed as permeable rubble mound structures using natural stones or concrete blocks. Rubble mound armoring enhances wav ...consist of sand-filled geotextile fabric bags, mattresses and tubes. Such structures must be protected against UV-light to avoid weathering of the fabric. Sand-
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• Coastal protection
  ...d the dynamic coastal landscape. Coastal protection often consists of hard structures such as revetments, [[#Breakwater|breakwaters]] or [[#Groyne|groynes]].}} * [[Hard coastal protection structures]]
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• Continental shelf habitat
  ...trate: the [[Sandy Shores|soft-bottom communities]] and the [[Rocky Shores|hard-bottom communities]] * [[Rocky Shores|Hard-bottom communities]] occur in areas with strong currents. Because of the st
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• Effects of fisheries on marine biodiversity
  ...ourage the development of a specialized associated community. Loss of such structures will also affect the survivorship of any associated species and prolong the A particular sensitive hard-bottom habitat are the deep-water coral communities of the ''Lophelia pert
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• Coral reefs
  ...t corals that live in shallow, cold waters. Corals are wave resistant rock structures, created by calcium carbonate secreting animals and plants. Coral reefs pro ...begins when free-swimming coral larvae attach to submerged rocks or other hard substrate along the edges of islands or continents. The reef expands and wi
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• Impact of tourism in coastal areas: Need of sustainable tourism strategy
  *tourist developments such as piers and other structures have been built directly on top of [[coral reefs]]; ...n of [[sediments]] to the maintenance of the beaches and foreshores. It is hard to find a unique solution for all those problems. However, the following p
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• Topic:Engineering
  ==Hard measures== * [[Hard coastal protection structures]]
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• Non-native species invasions
  ...s, breaking natural distribution boundaries and interfering with community structures. The unwanted hitchhikers are usually either well-hidden or too small to be ...lnerable to stochastic threats such as demographic or genetic drift. It is hard to predict what is the minimum viable population size. A generally accepted
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• Principles of conservation, rehabilitation and restoration of estuarine and coastal habitats
  ...tion = Rehabilitation is the repair and replacement of essential ecosystem structures and functions in the context of ecoregional attainability in order to achie ...re-estuarisation. Longitudinally, the building of hard riparian protection structures, dykes and training walls has dislocated hydro-systems and limited access o
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• Analysis of the ICZM process in The Netherlands
  ...second principle can be sum up with the slogan “soft wherever possible, hard only where necessary” (MinVenW, 2005). ...role. Thereby, flood safety is understand as to maintain flood protection structures and legislative safety standards, whereas erosion management constitutes to
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• Accretion and erosion for different coastal types
  ...n to the phenomena described above, a non-optimal layout of the protective structures can result in additional trapping of sand. This typically happens in the sh Articles about structural erosion and the presence of structures:
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• Coastal cities and sea level rise
  ...ound in several articles in the category [[:Category: Hard structures|Hard structures]]. The costs of coastal defenses depend on the intended level of protection *Investments in flood defense structures: dikes, river embankments, improvement of waterways, modernization of the d
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• Integrated Assessment
  ...tation on very basic assumptions in order to make underlying argumentative structures evident and improve the quality of debate. ...changing input and output data (soft linked models) or use a common shell (hard linked models). Only rarely integrated models are implemented with a single
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• Species extinction
  * [[Hard coastal protection structures|Coastal protection structures]]
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• Diversity and classification of marine benthic algae
  Seaweeds occur on any shore where a hard bottom or any other type of stable lacking flagella (as well as centrioles and other structures typical of the flagellar
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• Meiofauna of Sandy Beaches
  ...iments, but also on underwater algae and higher plants as well as on other hard substrates. The heterogeneity of meiofaunal habitats is very large and meio * the mobile environment, by adhesion, special locomotion and reinforcing structures;
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• Functional metabolites in benthic invertebrates
  ...e cases. Still, outstanding progress has been made towards elucidating the structures of mating pheromones in brown algae, and fishes. Whereas terpenes and other ...opisthobranchs accumulate and concentrate the deterrent chemicals in outer structures of the body, more exposed to attack. Thus, the round-shaped vesicles displa
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• Oyster reef shore protection
  Oyster reefs are an example of biogenic reefs. Biogenic reefs are structures built with ecosystem engineer species that sustain themselves with self-gen ...rotection function they can perform, reducing the need for hard artificial structures. Oysters naturally aggregate and attach themselves to older shells, rocks,
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• Wave energy converters
  ...l power by the wave–structure interaction between ocean waves and device structures (geometric optimization), (2) the transfer of mechanical power into electri ...ch dampens the largest waves. See also [[Wave energy converters in coastal structures]].
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• Artificial reefs
  ...as site dependent factors are to be considered, design criteria for these structures are not easily defined a priori. ...., 2007. ''Environmental Design Guidelines for Low Crested Coastal Defence Structures'', Elsevier.</ref>). Un-corrected design of the structure by a wrong select
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