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Understanding planktonic diatoms to inform site selection for shellfish offshor...
Araújo Freitas, Carla Alexandra; Goela, Priscila; Icely, John; Dias Duarte Fragoso, Bruno; de Oliveira Júnior, Luciano; Cristina, Sónia; Newton, AliceSustainable bivalve aquaculture offers a solution to rising food demand. This study aimed to help identify suitable offshore shellfish aquaculture sites in coastal upwelling regions. Here, planktonic diatom abundance, crucial for bivalve growth, is a key success factor. A successful bivalve production area was analysed to understand how diatom dynamics and upwelling influence a suitable location for shellfish o...
Editorial: integrated marine biosphere research: ocean sustainability, under gl...
Robinson, Carol; Hobday, Alistair J.; Murphy, Eugene J.; Nayak, Prateep Kumar; Newton, AliceThe Integrated Marine Biosphere Research (IMBeR) initiative is an interdisciplinary global environmental change research network with the mission to promote integrated marine research and enable capabilities for developing and implementing ocean sustainability options within and across the natural and social sciences, and to communicate relevant information and knowledge needed by society to secure sustainable,...
Editorial: highly intervened estuaries: impacts, dynamics and system responses
Restrepo, Juan Camilo; Newton, Alice; Van Maanen, Barend; Restrepo-Angel, Juan Darío; Becker, MariusEstuaries are among the most degraded and threatened environments worldwide (Scown et al., 2023; Syvitski and Saito, 2007). Highly intervened estuaries with altered environments are the result of human-engineered interventions (e.g., sluice gates, jetties, dikes, impoundments, training walls, port facilities, and dredging), land reclamation, changes in upstream land use, and human-induced pollution (e.g., Nicho...
Development of a management-based ranking of beaches
Oliveira, Elaine; Newton, Alice; Botero, Camilo M.Beach rankings are very frequent on the internet; however, the information provided on how these rankings are made is often unclear and their content is mostly subjective. In addition, the vast majority of these rankings do not take into account the fact that beaches are coastal eco-systems. The aim of the research was to develop an objective framework to rank the quality of beaches worldwide. The framework int...
A multi-sensor approach to monitor the ongoing restoration of edaphic condition...
Davranche, Aurélie; Arzel, Céline; Pouzet, Pierre; Carrasco, Rita; Lefebvre, Gaëtan; Lague, Dimitri; Thibault, Marc; Newton, Alice; Fleurant, CyrilThe Camargue or Rhone delta is a coastal wetland in southern France of which parts formerly devoted to salt production are undergoing a renaturation process. This study assessed a multisensor approach to investigate the link between sediment size distribution, habitat development mapped with Worldview 2, flooding durations estimated with time series of SENTINEL 2 images and elevation modelled with a LIDAR point...
Building an integrated analytical framework: a new methodology to analysing soc...
Gari, Sirak Robele; Newton, Alice; Icely, John DavidAppropriate adaptive management frameworks are useful for analyzing social-ecological systems. Natural resource managers and concerned stakeholders can co-design locally adapted, appropriate management systems based on the information obtained using frameworks, which leads to a better understanding of the social-ecological system (SES). However, no single framework addresses all environmental and social issues ...
Assessment of the Chesapeake Bay watershed socio-ecological system through the ...
Leyva Ollivier, María Esther; Newton, Alice; Kelsey, HeathThe concern with preserving natural resources for the future has been capturing global attention due to the state of decline of productive ecosystems. Chesapeake Bay, a large estuary located on the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States of America is such a productive ecosystem supporting thousands of animal and plants species, and the surrounding human population. Despite the concept of sustainable developmen...
Circles of coastal sustainability and emerald growth perspectives for transitio...
Povilanskas, Ramūnas; Jurkienė, Aistė; Dailidienė, Inga; Ernšteins, Raimonds; Newton, Alice; Leyva Ollivier, María EstherEmerald Growth is an overarching sustainable development framework for transitional waters situated between rivers and open sea. The emphasis on connectivity and ecosystem-based management as the underlying principles differentiates Emerald Growth from conventional approaches to managing transitional waters. The study's primary objective was to conjoin the Emerald Growth concept with the Coastal Circles of Sust...
Assessment of the Magdalena River delta socio-ecological system through the cir...
Gallo-Velez, David; Restrepo, Juan Camilo; Newton, AliceRiver-mouth systems and deltas are hotspots where many of the coastal syndromes can be found. Moreover, these systems provide essential ecosystem services (e.g., recreation, food provisioning, protection against natural hazards). The present study focuses on the socio-ecological system at the delta of the Magdalena River in the central Caribbean Region in Colombia. This research seeks to assess the multidimensi...
Socio-ecological analysis of the eutrophication in Chesapeake Bay, USA
Leyva-Ollivier, María Esther; Newton, Alice; Kelsey, HeathThis study is a social-ecological analysis of eutrophication in the Chesapeake Bay, United States of America (USA). It uses an expanded DPSIR framework (Drivers/Pressures/State/ Impacts/Responses) methodology to analyze the issue. In addition, a typology of the social actors and stakeholders in the socioeconomic part of the system is identified. These stakeholders include residents, agriculturists, fishers, rea...