Studying the spatiotemporal trends and influencing factors of vegetation coverage is essential for assessing ecological quality and monitoring regional ecosystem dynamics. The existing research on vegetation coverage variations and their driving fact...
Climate change and coastal development are intensifying coastal hazards and increasing the need for evidence-based Nature-based Solutions (NbSs) in integrated coastal zone management. However, proxy-based evidence for evaluating the ecosystem service...
Rapid global changes are altering regional hydrothermal conditions, especially in ecologically vulnerable areas such as coastal regions, subsequently influencing the dynamics of vegetation growth. However, there is limited research investigating the...
Low-level coastal jets are a common climatic phenomenon along much of the coast of Tenerife. However, there are large differences in intensity and frequency between the northern and southeastern facades of the island, even though both are exposed to...
Beach litter threatens coastal dunes integrity across the world. European countries are committed to improving the environmental status of the marine and coastal environment by 2020, and to do this, they need to reduce the gap of knowledge about litt...
Global climate change poses challenges to areas such as low-lying coastal zones, where sea level rise (SLR) and storm-surge overwash events can have long-term effects on vegetation and on soil and groundwater salinities, posing risks of habitat loss...
Coastal cliffs erode in response to short- and long-term environmental changes, but predicting these changes continues to be a challenge. In addition to a chronic lack of data on the cliff face, vegetation presence and growth can bias our erosion mea...
Large-scale removal of the invasive salt-marsh plant Spartina alterniflora has become an important intervention for restoring native coastal wetland habitats. However, its effects on vegetation reorganization and blue carbon storage remain unclear be...
Mapping coastal dune vegetation is critical to understand dune mobility and resilience in the context of climate change, sea level rise, and increased anthropogenic pressure. However, the identification of plant species from remotely sensed data is t...
Coastal dune habitats have been declining globally over the last several decades due to rapid urbanization. Within remaining dune systems, dune fixation has resulted in further losses of mobile dunes with negative impacts on their associated species....
Against the background of the rapid transformation of traditional economies and societies and continuous global climate change, how to ensure the long-term stability of the coastal ecological environment has become a key issue to be studied. In this...
In the Mexican Caribbean, environmental changes, hydrometeorological events, and anthropogenic activities promote dynamism in the coastal vegetation cover associated with the dune; however, their pace and magnitude remain uncertain. Using Landsat 7 i...
Protecting native coastal wetland vegetation and controlling the invasion of Spartina alterniflora (SA) have long been key ecological and management priorities in China. The accurate and rapid mapping of vegetation distribution is critical for effect...
Vegetation mapping, identifying the type and distribution of plant species, is important for analysing vegetation dynamics, quantifying spatial patterns of vegetation evolution, analysing the effects of environmental changes and predicting spatial pa...
This study examines long-term mangrove vegetation dynamics in the Cananéia–Iguape Coastal System (CICS), southeastern Brazil, with emphasis on their relevance for coastal ecosystem monitoring and sustainability. Land-use and land-cover (...
Coastal zones, as transition areas for sea/land interaction, have substantial carbon sequestration potential while also being particularly vulnerable to extreme climate. Consequently, it has become essential to evaluate the vegetation carbon sinks in...
Erosion and flooding are the main threats for most coastal regions. Nature-based solutions, such as coastal vegetation (CV) fields, have received significant attention in recent years because they effectively dissipate wave energy while maintaining b...
Analyzing vegetation coverage and land-use and land cover (LULC) characteristics helps to understand the interaction between human activities and the natural environment. The coastal regions of the Guangdong Province are economically active areas wit...
The expansion and intensification of coastal aquaculture around the Bohai Sea in China has reduced the tidal flats and damaged the coastal vegetation environment. However, there are few studies on the relationship between the evolution of coastal aqu...
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To identify the key soil factors influencing the vegetation differentiation in the coastal tidal flats of the Yellow−Bohai Sea in China, this study investigated the corresponding relationship between the Spartina alterniflora (SA), Suaeda salsa...
Shrub encroachment in coastal wetlands alters vegetation–soil interactions, yet its impacts on north temperate coastal wetland ecosystems remain poorly quantified. This study investigated the effects of Tamarix chinensis-dominated shrub en...
Coastal wetland vegetation exhibits pronounced spectral mixing, complex mosaic spatial patterns, and small target sizes, posing considerable challenges for fine-grained classification in high-resolution UAV imagery. At present, remote sensing classif...
The advancement of deep learning (DL) technology and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) remote sensing has made it feasible to monitor coastal wetlands efficiently and precisely. However, studies have rarely compared the performance of DL with traditiona...
The monitoring of coastal sand dunes requires regular high-resolution aerial photography along hundreds of kilometers of coastal strips. Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is now the most widely used method for detailed topographic and vegetation st...
Coastal wetlands (CWs) offer numerous imperative functions that support a diverse array of life forms that are poorly adapted for other environments and provide an economic base for human communities. Unfortunately, CWs have been experiencing signifi...
Understanding the spatial variability in soil hydraulic properties (SHPs) and their influencing variables is critical for ecohydrological and biogeochemical studies in coastal wetlands, where complex landscapes make it challenging to accurately delin...
Climate extremes are becoming more frequent with global climate change and have the potential to cause major ecological regime shifts. Along the northern Gulf of Mexico, a coastal wetland in Texas suffered sudden vegetation dieback following an extre...
Coastal areas are increasingly at risk due to climate change, necessitating innovative mitigation approaches. This study explores the integration of living environments, particularly aquatic vegetation, with conventional defence systems to provide so...
Coastal saline soils are an important soil resource that, when restored, can enhance arable land and preserve the natural ecology. With the aim of improving the use of coastal saline soils, we conducted a spot survey at Bohai coastal saline land to i...
Oil spills are a global phenomenon with impacts that cut across socio-economic, health, and environmental dimensions of the coastal ecosystem. However, comprehensive assessment of oil spill impacts and selection of appropriate remediation approaches...
Coastal areas harbor the most threatened ecosystems on Earth, and cost-effective ways to monitor and protect them are urgently needed, but they represent a challenge for habitat mapping and multi-temporal observations. The availability of open access...
The southeast coastal area of China (SCAC), a typhoon-prone area with a long coastline, suffers severe damage from typhoons almost every year. Exploring the spatial characteristics of historical typhoon-induced vegetation damage (VD) is crucial to pr...
Coastal wetland vegetation is a vital component that plays an important role in environmental protection and the maintenance of the ecological balance. As such, the efficient classification of coastal wetland vegetation types is key to the preservati...
The coastal dunes of the Colombian Caribbean show highly variable vegetation dynamics between 2015 and 2025. The study was conducted on five different beaches: Lipe, Salguero, Costa Verde, Gairaca, and Mendihuaca. Satellite images and SAVI estimates...
Coastal zones, as critical intersections of ecosystems, resource utilization, and socioeconomic activities, exhibit complex and diverse land cover types with frequent changes. Acquiring large-scale, high-quality annotated data in these areas is costl...
Traditional field vegetation plot surveys are critical for monitoring ecosystem restoration performance and include visual observations to quantitatively measure plants (e.g., species composition and abundance). However, surveys can be costly, time-c...
Soil salinization poses a severe threat to agricultural sustainability in the Yellow River Delta, where conventional spectral indices are limited by vegetation interference and seasonal dynamics in coastal saline-alkali landscapes. To address this, w...
Rapid changes in coastal salt marsh vegetation highlight the need for accurate monitoring to support sustainable management. This study aims to track annual salt marsh landscape dynamics and discuss vegetation succession mechanisms. A novel approach...
Tsunami waves become hazardous when they reach the coast. In South and Southeast Asian countries, coastal forest is widely utilized as a natural approach to mitigate tsunami damage. In this study, a depth-integrated numerical model was established to...
Intertidal vegetation provides important ecological functions, such as food and shelter for wildlife and ecological services with increased coastline protection from erosion. In cold temperate and subarctic environments, the short growing season has...
Terrestrial Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR), also referred to as terrestrial laser scanning (TLS), has gained increasing popularity in terms of providing highly detailed micro-topography with millimetric measurement precision and accuracy. Howeve...
Coastal dune restoration projects are increasingly seen as a means of protecting the coast against storms, especially with the use of natural (plants), artificial (geotextile tube cores) and hybrid (plants and geotextile tube) elements. As geotextile...
Coastal zones represent varied and highly productive ecosystems such as mangroves, coral reefs, sea grasses, and sand dunes. However, as a result of globalization, anthropological activities have increased in coastal areas, putting these ecosystems u...
In vegetated coastal deltas, direct optical retrieval of surface soil salt content (SSC, 0–10 cm) is often hindered by canopy masking, mixed pixels, and seasonal variability in surface conditions. To improve SSC mapping under vegetation cover,...
Substantial research indicates the effects of urbanization on vegetation cover; however, a view of this scenario from a regional scale is absent. Nowadays, coastal cities have become the new engine for the development of countries in coastal areas. T...
Monitoring salt marsh vegetation in the Yellow River Delta (YRD) wetland is the basis of wetland research, which is of great significance for the further protection and restoration of wetland ecological functions. In the existing remote sensing techn...
Frequent hurricane landfalls along the northern Gulf of Mexico, in addition to causing immediate damage to vegetation, also have long term effects on coastal ecosystem structure and function. This study investigated the utility of using time series e...
The ecology of functional features highlights the importance of the leaf economic spectrum (LES) in understanding plant trade-offs between conservative and commercial resource use. However, it is still unclear whether changes in the plant attributes...
Vegetated coastal wetlands, especially mangroves, seagrass beds, and salt marshes, are biodiversity-rich ecosystems whose blue carbon outcomes depend on living communities, sediment dynamics, hydrological connectivity, and landscape context. Biodiver...
Long time-series monitoring of mangroves to marine erosion in the Bay of Bangkok, using Landsat data from 1987 to 2017, shows responses including landward retreat and seaward extension. Quantitative assessment of these responses with respect to spati...
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