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• Definitions of coastal terms
  ...astal Wiki. The focus is on terms related to '''physical coastal processes and engineering'''. A complementary list of definitions related to the living e .../www.dhigroup.com/marine-water/ebook-shoreline-management-guidelines</ref> and from the USACE Coastal Engineering Manual <ref name=CEM> USACE, 2012. Coast
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• Sea level rise
  ...evel rise refers to long-term average sea-level rise relative to the local land level, as derived from coastal tide gauges. }} .... Lonnoy, J.B.R. Matthews, T. K. Maycock, T. Waterfield, O. Yelekci, R. Yu and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press.</ref> for the year 2100 are si
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• Threats to the coastal zone
  ...cations to coastal [[ecosystem]]s in relation to specific human activities and introduces the various threats resulting from poorly managed activities. ...stimated to be due for more than 80% to increasing sea surface temperature and sea level.
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• Coastal meteorology
  ...lutant dispersal, and it is also important for public safety, ship routing and naval operations. ...s, are aspects of coastal weather phenomena. Complex terrain or coastlines and marine boundary layer stratus (cloud base) complicate the subject of coasta
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• The Integrated approach to Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)
  ...ique and especially fragile ecosystems, being areas of great environmental and aesthetic value. ...habitats listed in the Conservation of Natural Habitats and of Wild Fauna and Flora Directive are coastal. Approximately a third of the Union's wetlands
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• Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)
  ..., C. 1993. Essential elements of integrated coastal zone management. Ocean and Coastal Management 21:81-108</ref>. ...he terrestrial and marine components of the target territory, in both time and space”<ref>[http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:200
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• Species lists
  ...live, how they grow and interact, helps us understand patterns of change, and provides better knowledge of how to change our behaviour to support our fra ...ppear before they have even been named, as climate change, land-use change and other factors take their toll.
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• Marine Spatial Planning - the need for a common language
  ...we need marine [[spatial planning]], how it can be defined appropriately, and what benefits it can offer. It also briefly discusses some international ex ...ne for the Belgian part of the North Sea revealed that the total claim for ocean space was almost three times the available amount (Figure 1)<ref>F Maes, et
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• Sea ice ecosystem
  ...ckmann, G. S., Sea ice. An introduction to its physics, chemistry, biology and geology. Blackwell Science, pp 1-21</ref>. ...ow sea bottom. Pack ice refers to any area of floating sea ice that is not land-fast.
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• Ecological thresholds and regime shifts
  ...heffer, 2009<ref name=S9>Scheffer, M. 2009. Critical transitions in nature and society. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA</ref>). Th ...Elmqvist, T., Gunderson, L., Holling, C.S. and Walker, B. 2002. Resilience and Sustainable Development: Building Adaptive Capacity in a World of Transform
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• European Context of Nutrient Dynamics
  ...er Estuary (UK) from 1994 to 1996 : results from an integrated observation and modelling study. The Science of the Total Environment 314/316, 665-713.</re ...en and sulphur inputs into the North Sea using a Lagrangian model, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 27 ,1507 – 1515.</ref> .
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• Mariculture
  Some limit mariculture to culture of marine plants and animals in the ocean itself (EEA, 2008<ref>European Environmental agency; https://www.eea.europa ...s from brackish water and include culture methods that take place in salty and brackish water that is situated in the coastal zone (CBD, 2004<ref name="CB
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• Seagrass recovery and restoration in the Wadden Sea
  ...n Sea as estimated from aerial surveys in August or September between 1978 and 2007.]] ...07). Seagrasses and eutrophication. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 350, 46-72.
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• Space geodetic techniques for coastal zone monitoring
  ...llite altimetry, since the late offer direct observations of the sea level and of its variations. ...otential surface useful to geodetic, oceanographic, geological, geodynamic and hydrological studies.
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• Principles of conservation, rehabilitation and restoration of estuarine and coastal habitats
  ...jectives (Cooke, 2005<ref>Cooke, G.D. 2005. Ecosystem Rehabilitation. Lake and Reservoir Management 21(2): 218-221</ref>).}} ==Estuaries as interfaces between land, sea and the atmosphere==
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• Analysis of the ICZM process in Belgium
  ...o wish to acquire better insight into the efforts made so far on the coast and current lines of thinking for the future”. ...rocedure. In the second phase, protected marine areas should be delineated and the necessary management measures defined (FOD, 2006).
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• Species extinction
  ...in extinction rates since humans have become Earth's dominant large animal and the cause of global environmental change. ...t started in the deep ocean area, and then moved up to the upper layers of ocean, killing almost all living creatures.
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• Mediterranean seagrass ecosystem
  ...descendants of terrestrial plants that re-colonised the ocean between 100 and 65 million years ago. Seagrasses are monocotyledons that are not true grass ...Mediterranean, corresponding to 25% of the sea bottom at depths between 0 and 40 m.
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• Meiofauna of Sandy Beaches
  ...y makers are not aware of its importance. Consequently, these environments and their resources are not protected sufficiently relative to their socio-econ ...sand grains (Figure 2). The interstitial system is also habitat for larvae and juveniles of certain macrofaunal species.
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• Introduction to MarBEF research
  ...nto, I., Vincx, M., Węsławski, JM., Nash, R. (2009). Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning. Printbase, Dublin, Ireland ISSN 2009-2539]</ref>. Many species of coastal plankton are active for a short time and remain in the sediments as resting stages, sometimes for very long periods.
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