The wines produced on the flat coastal littoral are strongly influenced by prevailing Atlantic westerlies. |
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The littoral zone was dominated by oligochaetes, gastropods, sphaerid clams, and chironomid larvae. |
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It will be the hub of all logistics support for combat forces conducting offensive operations in littoral regions. |
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The second stretches northward along the littoral, fanning outward to the east in a broad arc encompassing the area around Aleppo. |
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I had at last come upon his mythic littoral, with its tide mill and waters which flowed both ways. |
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Yet the countries along its littoral have no means of providing security to themselves. |
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The small plot of littoral rainforest remnant is under pressure from weed, drainage and erosion and needs restoration. |
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In lakes, similar cyprinids are abundant in the shallow littoral zone, even during storm conditions. |
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The littoral sediments of the experimental lakes are primarily flocculent organic material including abundant epipelon. |
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Low altitude dry vegetation is found relatively close to the littoral zone where the habitat is characterised by strong droughts. |
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These lakes have permanent thermoclines, small littoral zones, and deep hypolimnia. |
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Awareness of the proximity of the shifting tide-line and the littoral circumambience had much to do with it. |
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They pull hard at the oars until the boat is abreast of the island, and then they ram the bow against its icy littoral. |
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My first mistake was applying a blue-water mentality to a littoral environment. |
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Third, germination of papyrus from seed may have been hampered by residual saline porewater in littoral soils. |
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The Atlantic would become a dead sea strategically, its littoral states and their continents declining to marginal status. |
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Total consumption rates on benthos were divided by the littoral area based on hypsometric and limnological data. |
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Many wetlands around the world are characterized by shallow water, dense vegetation in the littoral zones, no significant riverine inflow and minimal circulation. |
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Three of the five Caspian littoral countries are landlocked. |
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However, the measurable distance from the sea bed to the sea surface is limited to around 50 meters, so the sensors cannot function in the open ocean, only in littoral areas. |
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And America and China, along with some of the South-East Asian littoral states, argued over the sea. |
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Miocene littoral and sublittoral deposits on the western side of the Atlantic showed the continuation of the transgression had begun in earlier times. |
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In 1997, biomass of both littoral and sublittoral invertebrates in the impoundment was comparable to that of New Brunswick lakes of similar trophic status. |
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Similarly, redundancy analysis showed that minimum winter or spring temperature significantly influenced the relative abundance of littoral taxa in seven lakes. |
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In 1907, erosion increased, eating away the coastal littoral beneath Keta. |
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A variety of analyses have made such recommendations as the development of small, more expendable craft for the littoral and adjacent narrow seas. |
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While wave action erodes the coastline in one place, the littoral drift eventually deposits the sand elsewhere. |
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The false alarm rate is very low, even in the littoral environment. |
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Among these trading settlements were Mosylon and Opone on the Red Sea littoral. |
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Trapping of littoral drift sediment, preventing it from reaching downcoast beaches. |
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Starting from the shoreline, the littoral zone begins at the spray region just above the high tide mark. |
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The species is especially common on sheltered shores from the middle littoral to lower intertidal levels. |
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The natural movement of the littoral along the coast is called the littoral drift. |
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Of the 115 bird species that nest in the littoral environment along the St. Lawrence, 57 are found in the southern portion of the upper estuary, the common eider being the most common colonizing species. |
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Significant mortality, as result of toxicity smothering, most probably occurred among littoral invertebrates such as gastropods, polychaetes, crustaceans and algae, especially on heavily contaminated beaches. |
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Azerbaijan believes that sovereign rights and jurisdictions over the Caspian Sea should be divided up between the littoral states in relevant sections. |
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There are several distinct habitats within the Ythan Estuary complex including marsh, littoral, estuarine, lacustrine and dunes areas. |
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From 1737 to 1834, expansion into the northern Black Sea littoral and the eastern Danube valley was a cornerstone of Russian foreign policy. |
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Littoral cell angioma is a vascular lesion of the spleen arising from the littoral cells, which line the splenic sinuses. |
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Hence, a large and productive littoral zone is considered an important characteristic of a healthy lake or river. |
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Daily fish and zooplankton abundances in the littoral zone of Lake Texoma, Oklahoma-Texas, in relation to abiotic variables. |
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But the big bass feed all day, too, along the outer edge of thick vegetation that covers much of Toho's littoral zone. |
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We collected plankton samples 9 September 2003 near the dam, at South Arm Basin, North Arm Basin, and in the littoral zone of Koehe Park. |
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Many of the animals in lakes and rivers are dependent upon the wetlands of littoral zones, since the rooted plants provide habitat and food. |
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A 2009 census found 6,000 Irrawaddy dolphins inhabiting the littoral rivers of Bangladesh. |
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In freshwater situations, littoral zones occur on the edge of large lakes and rivers, often with extensive areas of wetland. |
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It was wonky, it was driven by forces that were still turgid and lurking below the littoral of fathom-ability. |
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This, in turn, has poisoned vegetables and drinking water, most harmfully affecting the health and livelihood of the human population around the Aral Sea littoral. |
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The littoral zone fish community is dominated by cool and warm-water species such as smallmouth bass, northern pike, yellow perch, rock bass, brown bullhead, pumpkinseed, walleye and muskellunge. |
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Wind generated surface waves are the principal source of energy input into the littoral zone. |
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The eroded sand is carried by the littoral currents, forming two long sand bar systems which connect the major islands, as well as large spits at the north and south ends of the archipelago. |
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A green casting protected by the littoral on the road from Trévou-Treguiniec shelters Cabatous in a bosky with a particularly plentiful fauna and flora. |
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Flat Iron Lake, located in Calvin College's Flat Iron Lake Preserve, is a 25-acre kettle lake with a broad littoral zone along its eastern shore. |
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The littoral zone of the Black Sea is often referred to as the Pontic littoral or Pontic zone. |
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We hope to sign similar agreements with the other littoral states, and to resolve the problem of the legal status of the Caspian Sea without further delay. |
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At the south end is a 13th-century Romanesque cathedral, whose campanile is considered the finest example of Romanesque architecture on the Adriatic littoral. |
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In oceanography and marine biology, the idea of the littoral zone is extended roughly to the edge of the continental shelf. |
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Hence, over time, dams can reduce the area of wetland from a broad littoral zone to a narrow band of vegetation. |
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First, human settlement is often attracted to shorelines, and settlement often disrupts breeding habitats for littoral zone species. |
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In the Netherlands, Belgium and in East Anglia the littoral is low and marshy. |
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Kuwait's marine and littoral ecosystems contain the bulk of the country's biodiversity heritage. |
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They feed in shallow littoral waters on herring, flounder, hake, anchovy, codfish and sculpin. |
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In littoral zones, breaking wave is so intense and the depth measurement so low, that maritime currents reach often 1 to 2 knots. |
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The littoral zone is the part of a sea, lake or river that is close to the shore. |
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For example, military commanders speak of the littoral in ways that are quite different from marine biologists. |
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The adjacency of water gives a number of distinctive characteristics to littoral regions. |
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Psammon communities have received very little attention compared to lower littoral and sublittoral meiobenthos, and psammon has been rarely treated as a single entity. |
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As Frank did in 1981, the first author made a trip in Apr 2009 from Virginia to Florida, with frequent stops at beaches to collect littoral staphylinids. |
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Phycosecids live in sandy areas that border marine littoral zones. |
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For many beach areas there is only patchy information about the wave climate, therefore estimating the effect of wind waves is important for managing littoral environments. |
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The unmanned Influence Sweep System program is intended to develop a technology that can detect acoustic and magnetic mines and be deployed from the littoral combat ship. |
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For the purposes of naval operations, the United States Navy divides the littoral zone in the ways shown on the diagram at the top of this article. |
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The littoral zone may form a narrow or broad fringing wetland, with extensive areas of aquatic plants sorted by their tolerance to different water depths. |
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In coastal environments the littoral zone extends from the high water mark, which is rarely inundated, to shoreline areas that are permanently submerged. |
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The young prince was chased to the Adriatic littoral and fled to Constantinople to plead for assistance from Constantine V, who was waging war with Bulgaria. |
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Tangier's Ibn Batouta International Airport and the rail tunnel will serve as the gateway to the Moroccan Riviera, the littoral area between Tangier and Oujda. |
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They include hemangiomas, littoral cell angiomas, splenic hamartomas, lymphangiomas, hemangioendotheliomas, angiosarcomas, and Sclerosing Angiomatoid Nodular Transformation. |
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Without the complementary process of littoral drift, the bar would not build above the surface of the waves becoming a spit and would instead be leveled off underwater. |
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It proved an extremely successful design for a littoral fast attack craft, but due to fiscal reasons and doctrinal change in the Navy, the hovercraft was soon withdrawn. |
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The littoral zone of Soconusco lies to the south of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas, and consists of a narrow coastal plain and the foothills of the Sierra Madre. |
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In some areas, littoral seaweed can extend several miles out to sea. |
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They are generally found in the littoral zone near the banks of rivers, lagoons, and estuaries during the summer, and migrate offshore during the winter. |
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To counter the threat, the US Navy has been developing an ASUW Littoral Defensive Anti Surface Warfare doctrine, along with vessels such as the littoral combat ship. |
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In contrast, the littoral zone covers the region between low and high tide and represents the transitional area between marine and terrestrial conditions. |
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