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Effects of Roughness Loss on Reef Hydrodynamics and Coastal Protection: Approaches in Latin America

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Reefs are known to provide coastal protection and important ecosystem services for many coastlines around the world. Physical processes such as wave damping, sediment transport and nearshore hydrodynamics are closely related to the coastal protection services provided by reefs. The steep-fronted bathymetries of reefs cause abrupt wave transformations and wave damping alongshore, while reef roughness has an important contribution to coastal protection. Five Latin-American case studies are presented to illustrate the coastal protection offered by reefs and their contribution to wave damping. The methodologies applied (e.g. numerical modelling, field measurements) and reef conditions (e.g. reef degradation scenarios and contribution of reef roughness) are listed. Considerable efforts have been made towards diagnosing, understanding and modelling the hydrodynamic transformations induced by reefs. Based on physical and field surveys, roughness and friction parameters were derived in order to implement calibrated and validated numerical models. Discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of the different models applied in the study cases is provided as well as on the needs of highlighting physical processes and the analysis of reef hydrodynamics for supporting appropriate ecosystem-based management.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Dr. Garza-Pérez for providing the digital bathymetry of Akumal Bay.

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The financial support was provided by the EXCEED-Swindon project framework. The first author was supported by COLCIENCIAS funding the developed PhD thesis project.

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  1. Facultad de Minas-Departamento de Geociencias y Medio Ambiente - Grupo OCEANICOS, Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede Medellín, Carrera 80 No.65-223, Medellín, Colombia

    Juan D. Osorio-Cano & Andrés F. Osorio

  2. CONACYT-ECOSUR. Department of Systematics and Aquatic Ecology, ECOSUR, Chetumal, Mexico

    Juan C. Alcérreca-Huerta

  3. Coastal Processes Laboratory, CINVESTAV-Merida, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico

    Ismael Mariño-Tapia & Cesar Acevedo-Ramírez

  4. Faculty of Sciences, UMDI-Sisal, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico city, Mexico

    Cecilia Enriquez

  5. Coastal Dynamics Laboratory, Oceanographic Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

    Mirella Costa

  6. Geological Oceanography Lab., Oceanography Department, Pernambuco Federal University, Recife, PE, 50670-901, Brazil

    Pedro Pereira

  7. Engineering Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

    Edgar Mendoza, Mireille Escudero, Alejandro Astorga-Moar & Rodolfo Silva

  8. Laboratory of Engineering and Coastal Processes, Engineering Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Puerto de Abrigo s/n, 97356, Sisal, Mexico

    José López-González & Christian M. Appendini

  9. Leichtweiß Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources, Technische Universität Braunschweig, 38106, Braunschweig, Germany

    Hocine Oumeraci

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Osorio-Cano, J.D., Alcérreca-Huerta, J.C., Mariño-Tapia, I. et al. Effects of Roughness Loss on Reef Hydrodynamics and Coastal Protection: Approaches in Latin America. Estuaries and Coasts 42, 1742–1760 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-019-00584-4

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