Natural Plant Diversity Development on a Man-Made Dune System

Vestergaard, Peter

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-33445-0_4

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“…(2) Do species differing in their ecology (i.e., affinity to a given habitat) and growth form show different response to human disturbance? The use of set of species that have in common structural and functional attributes will enable to overcome taxonomic differences thus allowing ecological comparisons among coastal dunes on a general scale (Vestergaard 2013;Del Vecchio et al 2018) ; (3) What recommendations on the sustainability of foredune restoration can be provided?…”

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Mediterranean developed coasts: what future for the foredune restoration?

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Scarton³

et al. 2021

J Coast Conserv

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The feasibility and efficacy of soft engineering foredune restoration approaches still lack insight from research and monitoring activities, especially in areas where dunes are under persisting human disturbance. We evaluated the efficacy of Mediterranean foredune restoration in dune areas freely accessible to tourists. Foredunes were reconstructed using only sand already available at nearby places and consolidated through the plantation of seedlings of native ecosystem engineer species and foredune focal species. We monitored transplanted and spontaneous seedlings for one year to assess their mortality and growth in relation to the distance from the closest beach access, either formal or informal, as proxy of human disturbance. We also tested whether species differing in their ecology (i.e., affinity to a given habitat) and growth form showed different response to human disturbance. The relationship between seedling mortality and growth and the distance from the closest beach access was tested through Generalized Linear Mixed Models. We found a clear spatial pattern of seedling survival and growth, which decreased as the proximity to the closest beach access increased. Only invasive alien plants and erect leafy species showed to better perform at lower distances from beach accesses. In dune areas with a strong tourist vocation, foredune restoration should be coupled with the implementation of integrated management plans aiming at optimising the relationship between protection and use. Management plans should not only rely on passive conservation measures; rather they should include educational activities to stimulate a pro-environmental behaviour, increase the acceptance of behaviour rules and no entry zones, and actively engage stakeholders in long-term conservation.

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Mediterranean developed coasts: what future for the foredune restoration?

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Scarton³

et al. 2021

J Coast Conserv

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“…Notwithstanding the importance of blowouts in natural coastal dune systems, they are also crucial for applied coastal management purposes. Along many low-lying densely populated coasts, such as in the Netherlands, coastal management traditionally has focused on dune stabilization, including closing gaps in the foredune, planting vegetation, (e.g., [21,30,31]), and nourishments on the foreshore, the foredune and the beach, (e.g., [32,33]). Aside of dune stabilization by maintaining the foredune shape (by adding plants or sand), the stabilizing effect of foreshore-and beach nourishments on foredune morphology is based on the connection between nearshore-, beach morphology, aeolian sediment transport, and dune dynamics as shown by Short and Hesp [8].…”

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Feedbacks between Biotic and Abiotic Processes Governing the Development of Foredune Blowouts: A Review

Schwarz

Brinkkemper

Ruessink

2018

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This paper reviews the initiation, development, and closure of foredune blowouts with focus on biotic-abiotic interactions. There is a rich body of literature describing field measurements and model simulations in and around foredune blowouts. Despite this abundance of data there is no conceptual framework available linking biotic and abiotic observations to pathways of blowout development (e.g., erosional blowout growth or vegetation induced blowout closure). This review identifies morphological and ecological processes facilitating the transition between blowout development stages and sets them in the context of existing conceptual frameworks describing biotic-abiotic systems. By doing so we are able to develop a new conceptual model linking blowout development to the dominance of its governing processes. More specifically we link blowout initiation to the dominance of abiotic (physical) processes, blowout development to the dominance of biotic-abiotic (bio-geomorphological) processes and blowout closure to the dominance of biotic (ecological) processes. Subsequently we identify further steps to test the proposed conceptual model against existing observations and show possibilities to include it in numerical models able to predict blowout development for various abiotic and biotic conditions.

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