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• Definitions of coastal terms
  ...nd the part of the sea affected by its proximity to the land (influence of terrestrial processes).
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• Coastal zone
  ...nd the part of the sea affected by its proximity to the land (influence of terrestrial processes).
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• Water Framework Directive
  ...he status of aquatic [[ecosystems]] and, with regard to their water needs, terrestrial ecosystems and wetlands directly depending on the aquatic ecosystems;
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• Blue carbon sequestration
  Like terrestrial ecosystems, marine ecosystems are capable of capturing CO₂ from Unlike terrestrial soils, the sediments in which mangroves, salt marshes, and seagrass meadows
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• References for environmental risk assessment
  ...ntific approaches to assess the potential effects and risk of chemicals on terrestrial ecosystems. Scientific committee on toxicity, ecotoxicity and the environme
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• Submarine groundwater discharge
  ...s41467-020-15064-8</ref>) show that the submarine groundwater discharge of terrestrial origin cannot exceed 5.5% of the river input into the world’s oceans, ass ...%) of the salt marshes and 14% (0.1–26%) of the coral reefs, the flux of terrestrial groundwater exceeds 25% of the river flux and poses a risk for pollution an
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• Coastal meteorology
  ...teorology of the coastal zone is based on detailed knowledge of marine and terrestrial boundary layers and air-sea-interaction but has also to consider large-scal
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• Greek case studies: Long term geomorphological changes in the coastal zone of the Thermaikos Gulf, Salonika Region, North Greece
  ...e transgression resulted in changing erosion/deposition conditions both on terrestrial and marine environments.
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• Development of a geographical dictionary in the context of NOKIS
  For the terrestrial area, the digital base landscape model (DLM) of ATKIS (Official Topographic
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• Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)
  ...areas, sectors, and levels of administration. It means integration of the terrestrial and marine components of the target territory, in both time and space”<re
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• Spatial Planning and Integrated Coastal Zone Management
  ...elevant policy areas, sectors, and levels of administration as well as the terrestrial and marine components of the geographical area under consideration. The wor
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• UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
  ...defended the idea that the sea could not be claimed by anyone contrary to terrestrial areas which are the only territories that can be occupied by a nation. The ...bove those areas belong to it. Those areas are considered as a part of the terrestrial territory of the neighbour state according to the second article of the con
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• Mediterranean Sea and Region, including Adriatic Sea
  ...l wet winters and dry hot summers, may be shifting with related impacts on terrestrial, coastal and marine [[ecosystem]]s and [[biodiversity]], and the economies
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• Greek case studies: Sediment dynamics in the nearshore zone of Gouves (Heraklio, Crete) in relation to erosion (unpublished data 2006)
  ...luded that in addition to the reduction in supply of sediment to the area (terrestrial and longshore), the ‘Etesian’ events during the summer months result in
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• Light fields and optics in coastal waters
  ...ent phytoplankton cells to faecal pellets in offshore waters and including terrestrial vegetable matter in estuaries. There is also the possibility that organic m
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• Consultation on Maritime Policy: the issue of Capacity Building
  ICZM has shown that it could become the instrument to link ''terrestrial'' to marine legislation, especially on a ''regional sea level''
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• Marine Biodiversity
  ...ch as crabs, lobsters, shrimp as marine animals and insects and spiders as terrestrial organisms.
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• Functional diversity in marine ecosystems
  ...fication; it covers all types of habitats from natural to artificial, from terrestrial to freshwater and marine.
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• Species lists
  Marine and terrestrial: Marine and terrestrial:
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• Biome
  ...cal community characterized by distinctive life forms and principal plant (terrestrial biomes)or animal (marine biomes) species.<ref name="Lincoln">Lincoln R., Bo
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• Marine Spatial Planning - the need for a common language
  ...ed for the use of certain areas. This approach has become the standard for terrestrial land-use planning and decision-making. ...tive. In many respects, planning in the marine environment today resembles terrestrial planning in the 1960s. Where land use planning is the spatial planning comp
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• Biodiversity
  ...iability among living organisms from all sources, including, 'inter alia', terrestrial, marine, and other aquatic ecosystems, and the ecological complexes of whic
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• Coastal grazing marsh
  ...ntified as being nationally rare or scarce in samples of both aquatic and "terrestrial" species.
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• Sand Dunes in Europe
  ...ion. They often occur in a complex of other habitats spanning the range of terrestrial coastal habitats and ecosystems in transitional waters.
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• Mangroves
  They are salt-tolerant forested [[wetlands]] at the interface between the terrestrial landscape and the marine environment. The dominant vegetation are several s ...really a mangrove species, but a transitional species between mangrove and terrestrial vegetation.
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• Seagrass meadows
  ...Seagrasses are not true grasses but rooted vascular (flowering) plants of terrestrial origin that have successfully returned to the sea. This return needs severa ...ent traps. The roots are thicker and more fleshy than the fibrous roots of terrestrial grasses. They thus provide protection against coastal [[erosion]]. Nutrient
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• Coastal squeeze
  ...pped in a ‘coastal squeeze’ between the impacts of urbanization on the terrestrial side and manifestations of climate change at sea. While unconstrained, thes
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• Marine habitats and ecosystems
  ...redators. They are very important to the overall health of both marine and terrestrial environments.
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• Capacity Building in the frame of EU ICZM related policies
  ...this regard, ICZM has shown that it could become the instrument to link ''terrestrial'' and ''marine'' legislation, especially at the Regional Sea Level<ref>Rupp
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• The Ecosystem Approach
  ...l zone is not set by some arbitrary buffer along the interface between the terrestrial and marine parts, but a '''functional''' unit defined by the interactions b ...hich need take into account the inter-relationships between the marine and terrestrial parts of the coastal zone. Considering ecosystem services, EIA and SEA can
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• Optical measurements in coastal waters
  ...nc.] ||Designs and manufactures scientific instrumentation for aquatic and terrestrial environmental monitoring. In <u>Case 1</u> waters, which are usually deep and free of terrestrial influence, variations in optical properties are linked to chlorophyll conce
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• Wetlands
  Definition|title= Wetlands |definition= Transitional areas between terrestrial and aquatic systems in which the water table is usually at or near the surf ...mmunities living in and on the soil. Wetlands may support both aquatic and terrestrial species. The prolonged presence of water creates conditions that favour the
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• Potential Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Mangroves
  ...affecting mangroves of high islands and continental coasts may be input of terrestrial sediment such that the effects of sea level rise are lessened. Because of t
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• Mariculture
  ...rovide good quality food and the production is more efficient than that of terrestrial animals; roughly half the level of feed input per unit output is necessary ...2010 indicate that about 98% of the world's food supply is provided by the terrestrial domain (agriculture). Only 1.4% comes from the marine domain: fishery (~ 1%
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• Sand dune types - Europe
  ...waves and wind moves sedimentary material to create intertidal or coastal terrestrial habitats. The erosion of the former (particularly cliffs made of soft glaci ...well, D.S. & Boar, R., 1986. ''Coast dune management guide''. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, HMSO, London.</ref>. Copyright: J Pat Doody]]
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• Halophytic plants
  ...s that can tolerate salty conditions. They have all the characteristics of terrestrial plants with a vascular system and roots.
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• Salt marshes
  Saltmarshes are defined as natural or semi-natural terrestrial halophytic ecosystems that occur in the [[intertidal]] zone between the lan ...Flooded only by the highest tides and during storms, they are more like a terrestrial than a true marine environment. The plant community is more diverse than on
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• Space geodetic techniques for coastal zone monitoring
  ...ences, since scientific observational methods were not limited any more to terrestrial only, but to satellite ones as well. Considering the main advantages of sat ...ng the buoy receivers, the receivers aboard the boat and several permanent terrestrial GPS reference stations, all operated at a sampling rate of 1 Hz. The coordi
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• Polyfluorinated compounds - a new class of global pollutants in the coastal environment
  ...aries, and deposit far from the place of release, where they accumulate in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
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• Principles of conservation, rehabilitation and restoration of estuarine and coastal habitats
  ...e waters and the atmosphere. They are defined as zones of transition where terrestrial runoff discharges into the sea, and are closely connected to the [[ecosyste *Restoration of marine coastal ecosystems is more expensive than for terrestrial ecosystems; this holds in particular for coral reefs, seagrass and oyster r
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• Lessons learned from three ICZM best-practice projects
  *Inclusion of the marine and terrestrial part of the coast
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• Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary – Case Study
  *<u>US National Park Service </u>(NPS) manages the terrestrial park that extends seaward one nautical mile.
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• Number of marine species
  ...(8), e1001127</ref>). Projections of the magnitude of total biodiversity (terrestrial and marine) of the planet range from 9 to 390 million eukaryotic species (M
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• Species extinction
  ...in the marine environment is probably more than 10 times lower than in the terrestrial environment<ref>McCauley, D.J., Pinsky, M.L., Palumbi, S.R., Estes, J.A., J ...xploitation of marine organisms has a short history in comparison with the terrestrial organisms, only commencing in the last few hundred years. Initially, marine
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• Ecological and latitudinal aspects
  ...al decrease poleward) is a well-recognized and long established pattern in terrestrial ecology. It was documented e.g. for plants, bats, mammalian quadrupeds, rep Marine environment differs from the terrestrial systems in that it has an important third dimension – depth. Sanders<ref
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• Biodiversity and Ecosystem function
  ...ntal evidence for biodiversity effects on ecosystem function has come from terrestrial ecosystems, particularly grasslands (Naeem et al. 1994<ref name=Na94>Naeem, ...habitat patches in aquatic systems often is more spatially compact than in terrestrial environments, presenting more tractable experimental systems at the landsca
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• US National Marine Sanctuaries
  ...m to protect marine parks—a hundred years after the establishment of the terrestrial National Park System. Title III of the Act permits NOAA to:
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• Algal bloom dynamics
  .... and Falkowski, P. 1998. Primary production of the biosphere: integrating terrestrial and oceanic components. Science 281: 237–240</ref>). Phytoplankton specie
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• Diversity and classification of marine benthic algae
  not only in the sea, but also in freshwater and terrestrial habitats. Their classification
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• Mediterranean seagrass ecosystem
  Posidoniaceae is one of the 5 families of seagrasses, descendants of terrestrial plants that re-colonised the ocean between 100 and 65 million years ago. Se
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