Sandy beaches occur in a wide variety of environmental settings and as components diverse range coastal system types. These variations among lead to significant differences their mesoscale (multi-decadal, km length scale) behaviour, including response sea-level rise. In addition this natural variability, the degree which sandy beach has been or will be modified by humans is major influence on h...

Abstract West Sumatera is a region that has an abundance of natural resources in the form iron sand, one which area Pasia Jambak Beach, Padang. Beach type beach rumps and sandy beaches, grayish-brown sand rough grains on its surface. Iron could be formed due to weathering rocks materials found around coast, such as old ships others. This study aims see rock origin composition magnetic mineral e...

Who would be at your ideal conference? I’d love to be marooned on a desert island (with whiteboards, or at least a smooth sandy beach to scribble on) with Michael Lynch, Ralph Greenspan, Norbert Perrimon, John Mattick, Michael Wade, Thomas Whitham, Sara Via and Allen Moore. Perrimon, Mattick and Greenspan each have their own unique perspectives on how complex gene networks might work, while Whi...

Maerl beds, particularly those of Brittany, are important, structurally complex biogenic coastal habitats that form a unique ecosystem with high benthic biodiversity. Although they relatively well studied throughout Europe, several faunal groups maerl such as belonging to the meiofauna, have received little attention. We investigated meiofaunal abundance, distribution and community structure, f...

Mosso, C., Sierra, J. P., Gracia, V., Mestres, M., and Rodriguez, A. 2011. Short-term morphodynamic changes in a fetch limited beach at the Ebro delta (Spain), under low wave-energy conditions. Journal of Coastal Research, SI 64 (Proceedings of the 11th International Coastal Symposium), – . Szczecin, Poland, ISSN 0749-0208 Sandy beaches in fetch-limited environments are protected from large oce...

The orientation stimuli of adult individuals of the beetle Phalerisida maculata Kulzer (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) over the beach surface, were studied at two sandy beaches of the chilean coast approximately 1300 km apart, Apolillado (ca. 29 degrees S) and Playa Universitaria de Mehuín (ca. 39 degrees S). Phalerisida maculata did not orient by astronomic cues such as the sun and moon, nor by th...

Phoomyia Naglis & Grootaert gen. nov. is described to include two new species of beach-dwelling dolichopodine flies from coastal Sri Lanka and Thailand: Phoontyia srilankensis Naglis & Brooks sp. nov. and Phoomnyia thailandensis Naglis & Grootaert sp. nov. The new genus is closely related to the genera Argyrochlamys Lamb and Pseudargyrochlamys Grichanov, and is distinguished based on characters...

The effects of wave action and horseshoe crab spawning on the topography and grain-size characteristics on the foreshore of an estuarine sand beach in Delaware Bay, New Jersey, USA were evaluated using data collected over six consecutive high tides. Data were gathered inside and outside a 25 m long exclosure constructed to create a control area free of disturbance by crabs. The density of crabs...