Shoreline

Group of multispecies fish.

Coherent unit for coastline management which, like the catchment areas of rivers, is an optimal geographical working scale for an integrated approach to the management, restoration and use of the coastal fringe.

Interface where the land meets the sea, containing coastal environments as adjacent coastal waters. Its components may include deltas, coastal plains, marshes, beaches and dunes, reefs, mangrove forests, lagoons, fjords and other coastal features.

Periodic oscillation of sea level. The wave occurs sporadically, depending on the uneven pressures and on the wind friction that these differences in pressure generate. Waves (or chops), formed by the local wind, are random and, therefore, their action on the shore is negligible on the average.

As opposed to "benthic", it describes organisms and processes occurring in the ocean (open water) and not close to the bottom.

For some people, it is a belt between land areas and constantly submerged areas. For others, the littoral is limited to the coastline, to the foreshore, or otherwise extends to all lands which are influenced by the presence of the sea. From a…

Periodic oscillation of sea level. Swell occurs sporadically, depending on unequal pressures and friction of the wind, and is generated by these differences in pressure. It is formed by the wind far away from the observation area, and has a substantially sinusoidal oscillation profile, thus very regular, and spreads over long distances, unlike the

Current created at the immediate border of the coastline by the supply of water by oblique waves. It may be important in the Mediterranean, because of the lack of tidal current in particular. It can set in motion sand particles.