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JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Volume 9, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/jmse9111190
Keywords
deltas; sedimentation decrease; coastal lagoons; global change; Mediterranean wetlands; Ebro Delta
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- Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain)
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The Ebro Delta coastal wetland, located in the Mediterranean, faces threats such as sediment deficit caused by river regulation, global change effects like sea level rise, temperature increase, and intensified storms. Protection and management strategies are needed to address these challenges.
Coastal wetlands are dynamic ecosystems that exist at the interface between land and sea. They represent environments with a great diversity of habitats and communities, high carbon sequestration capacity and a wide range of ecosystem services. In the Mediterranean, the largest coastal wetlands are found in deltaic areas like that of the Ebro River (Spain), which has a coastline length of approximately 50 km, occupying a total area of 325 km(2). The Ebro Delta is included in different national and international frameworks for environmental conservation, despite which there are several risks that threaten it. The lack of sedimentary contributions due to the regulation of the Ebro riverbed (irrigation, reservoirs, and hydroelectric power generation) has caused erosion and the retreat of certain sections of its coastline. To this situation of sediment deficit must be added the threat posed by the effects of global change, such as the rise in sea level, the increase in temperature and in the frequency and intensity of storms. This study analyses the particularities of the coastal wetland of the Ebro Delta, identifying the main threats it faces, as well as possible adaptation and mitigation strategies to these changes.
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