Late Vistulian and Holocene development of litho-morpho-pedogenic processes in the southern Baltic coastal zone: A case study from Dębina, northern Poland

Geoderma ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 348 ◽  
pp. 21-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerzy Jonczak ◽  
Wacław Florek ◽  
Bogusława Kruczkowska ◽  
Joanna Gadziszewska ◽  
Monika Niska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Zone ◽  
Northern Poland ◽  
Late Vistulian ◽  
Southern Baltic ◽  
Pedogenic Processes

Biodiversity of benthic diatom flora in the coastal zone of Puck Bay (southern Baltic Sea): a case study of the Hel Peninsula

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 304-318
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Witak ◽  
Jarosław Pędziński ◽  
Sandra Oliwa ◽  
Dominika Hetko
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Coastal Zone ◽  
Benthic Diatom ◽  
Southern Baltic Sea ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Southern Baltic ◽  
Brackish Water Species ◽  
Water Species ◽  
Puck Bay

AbstractThe paper presents the results of the analysis of diatoms from surface sediments (stones, sands) and macroflora (seagrass, macroalgae) collected at 16 sampling sites located along the inner coastal zone of Puck Bay (southern Baltic Sea) along the Hel Peninsula. The main diatom species of epilithon, epipsammon and epiphyton were characterized with respect to their autecological preferences (habitat, salinity, trophic status, saprobity). Three groups of diatoms were distinguished with respect to the type of substrate based on the results of benthic flora analysis: diatoms (i) of one type of substrate, (ii) of two types and (iii) those occurring on all types of substrates. Moreover, the distribution of benthic diatom communities indicates ecological differences in the study area. Marine and brackish-water species were observed in large numbers in the coastal zone of the Outer Puck Bay, whereas freshwater flora occurred with a higher frequency in the coastal zone of the Puck Lagoon. The content of polysaprobionts and of α-mesosaprobionts indicates that the region of the Hel Tip is highly eutrophicated and very polluted. The coast in the vicinity of Kuznica is less polluted, whereas the best environmental conditions are found in the Jurata–Jastarnia region, as evidenced by the frequency of diatoms that are β-mesosaprobionts.

scholarly journals A Personalized Machine-Learning-Enabled Method for Efficient Research in Ethnopharmacology. The Case of the Southern Balkans and the Coastal Zone of Asia Minor

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 5826
Author(s):  
Evangelos Axiotis ◽  
Andreas Kontogiannis ◽  
Eleftherios Kalpoutzakis ◽  
George Giannakopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Coastal Zone ◽  
Extraction Process ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Effectiveness And Efficiency ◽  
Intelligent Tools ◽  
Southern Balkans

Ethnopharmacology experts face several challenges when identifying and retrieving documents and resources related to their scientific focus. The volume of sources that need to be monitored, the variety of formats utilized, and the different quality of language use across sources present some of what we call “big data” challenges in the analysis of this data. This study aims to understand if and how experts can be supported effectively through intelligent tools in the task of ethnopharmacological literature research. To this end, we utilize a real case study of ethnopharmacology research aimed at the southern Balkans and the coastal zone of Asia Minor. Thus, we propose a methodology for more efficient research in ethnopharmacology. Our work follows an “expert–apprentice” paradigm in an automatic URL extraction process, through crawling, where the apprentice is a machine learning (ML) algorithm, utilizing a combination of active learning (AL) and reinforcement learning (RL), and the expert is the human researcher. ML-powered research improved the effectiveness and efficiency of the domain expert by 3.1 and 5.14 times, respectively, fetching a total number of 420 relevant ethnopharmacological documents in only 7 h versus an estimated 36 h of human-expert effort. Therefore, utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support the researcher can boost the efficiency and effectiveness of the identification and retrieval of appropriate documents.

Modelling morphological changes of beach and dune induced by storm on the Southern Baltic coast using XBeach (case study: Dziwnow Spit)

2013 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 672-677 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Bugajny ◽  
Kazimierz Furmańczyk ◽  
Joanna Dudzińska-Nowak ◽  
Barbara Paplińska-Swerpel
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Changes ◽  
Baltic Coast ◽  
Southern Baltic
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