Advances in Coastal Dune and Aeolian Processes Research
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Coastal Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 November 2025 | Viewed by 8
Special Issue Editors
Interests: coastal dune and aeolian processes, spit and coastal barrier evolution; nearshore and intertidal bar behavior; impacts of climate change on coastal systems
Interests: coastal dune and aeolian processes; nearshore hydrodynamics; shoreline and sandbar evolution; numerical modeling; ecomorphodynamic processes
Interests: coastal dune; restoration ecology; plant–animal interaction; plant invasion
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Coastal dune systems are dynamic landforms shaped by complex interactions between wind, waves, vegetation, and human activity. Growing concern over their resilience to environmental change, given their increasing use as a form of natural infrastructure along coastlines around the world, has inspired a considerable amount of fundamental and applied research on aeolian geomorphology and coastal science. This Special Issue aims to highlight contemporary research on coastal dune and aeolian processes across diverse climatic and geographic contexts.
This Special Issue encompasses a wide range of topics, including beach–dune evolution, wind-driven sediment transport, biotic–abiotic interactions, and vegetation’s role in dune morphology. Multi-scale approaches and emerging tools such as remote sensing, UAVs, LiDAR, and machine learning are of particular interest. Submissions of fieldwork, lab experiments, remote sensing analyses, and numerical or conceptual models will be considered.
We are also seeking review papers and case studies that explore the feedback between geomorphic and ecological dynamics or assess the impacts of climate change and human activities on coastal dune systems.
Dr. Nicolas Robin
Dr. Nicholas Cohn
Prof. Dr. Juan B. Gallego-Fernández
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- coastal dune morphodynamics
- aeolian processes and sediment transport
- coupled marine–aeolian interactions
- biotic–abiotic interactions
- spatial distribution of dune vegetation
- plant functional traits
- process-based numerical modeling
- remote sensing and monitoring
- dune restoration ecology
- the impacts of climate change and biological plant invasion on dune ecosystems
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