Sam Provoost

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors give an overview of changes in landscape and vegetation with a focus on the past century in coastal dunes, and discuss six causes of change, including changes in land use, mainly abandonment of agricultural practices, have led to the development of late successional stages such as scrub and woodland.

TL;DR: In this article, negative, ecosystem-component specific effects of beach nourishment dominate in the short to medium term, with the size of the impact being determined by activities during the construction phase, the quality and quantity of the nourishment sand, the timing, place and size of a proJect, and the nutrition technique and strategy applied.

TL;DR: This work has shown that zoochory can be an efficient mechanism for plants to colonize new patches of potentially suitable habitat and predicted that seed dispersal by ungu ...

TL;DR: The grey dunes are a priority habitat type of the Euro- pean Union Habitats Directive and demand special attention for conservation and management and knowledge of the ecology of coastal grey Dunes can contribute to this policy as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the available knowledge on sedimentology, hydrodynamics and five major ecosystem components (microphytobenthos, vascular plants, terrestrial arthropods, zoobenthians, and avifauna) of Belgian sandy beaches.