[HTML][HTML] Towards Solving the Beach Litter Problem: Ecosystem Service Assessments at North African Coasts

E Robbe, LB Abdallah, L El Fels, NEH Chaher… - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
Sandy beaches along the North African Mediterranean coast face significant challenges due
to accumulating human-made debris (marine litter) and natural debris (beach wrack) …

Seagrass meadows are important sources of reef island-building sediment

HK East, JA Johnson, CT Perry, G Finlay… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
The future vulnerability of low-lying atoll nations is inextricably linked to the production of
carbonate sediments by organisms living in their adjacent marine environments. Seagrass …

Cross-shore profile evolution induced by real emergent vegetation in a sandbar-lagoon coast: Laboratory experiments

C Kuang, X Cong, L Gong, J Liu, X Han, W Xing - Geomorphology, 2025 - Elsevier
Pressures from anthropogenic activities and climate change in lagoon ecosystems have
increased rapidly in recent years. Coastal vegetation serves as a natural sea defense …

Towards Sustainable Management of Beach-Cast Seagrass in Mediterranean Coastal Areas

L Manfra, S Chiesa, S Simeone, P Borrello… - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
Marine environmental conservation and tourist exploitation are often in conflict, particularly
where anthropogenic pressure is greatest, such as along the coasts of the Mediterranean …

Sediment Budget Implications from Posidonia oceanica Banquette Removal in a Starved Beach System

S Simeone, AGL Palombo, F Antognarelli, W Brambilla… - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study discusses the potential impact of removing Posidonia banquette on the sediment
budget of a siliciclastic-sediment-starved beach-barrier system. The morphology as well as …

Mapping and assessment of lake ecosystem services in Lithuania

M Inácio, M Das, B Burkhard, D Barceló, P Pereira - Ecosystem Services, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Lakes provide essential Ecosystem Services (ES) that support human well-being.
However, due to anthropogenic environmental degradation, lake ecosystem conditions and …

An assessment of the impact of boundary conditions in dynamical downscaling techniques for fetch-limited waves

A Ruju, F Viola - Coastal Engineering Journal, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The handling of boundary conditions (BCs) is a key issue for the development of dynamical
downscaling techniques in which nearshore wave models require the definition of the sea …

[HTML][HTML] A Four-Year Video Monitoring Analysis of the Posidonia oceanica Banquette Dynamic: A Case Study from an Urban Microtidal Mediterranean Beach (Poetto …

D Trogu, S Simeone, A Ruju, M Porta, A Ibba… - Journal of Marine …, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper investigates the dynamics of the cross-shore extensions of banquettes, a
sedimentary structure mostly made by rests of Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile, in a sandy …

On the Role of Wood and Seagrass Rests in Coastal Flooding Events in Mediterranean Microtidal Beaches

D Trogu, S Simeone, A Usai… - Journal of Coastal …, 2025 - meridian.allenpress.com
ABSTRACT Trogu, D.; Simeone, S.; Usai, A.; Porta, M., and De Muro, S., 2024. On the role of
wood and seagrass rests in coastal flooding events in Mediterranean microtidal beaches. In …

Automatic seagrass banquettes detection from surveillance camera images with Detectron2

G Sabato, G Scardino, A Kushabaha… - Geografia Fisica e …, 2022 - gfdq.glaciologia.it
In recent years, machine learning and deep learning methodologies have gained increasing
attention in various fields of research, including environmental studies. Some algorithms …