32 research outputs found
Larval stages of crustacean species of interest for conservation and fishing exploitation in the western Mediterranean
Decapod crustaceans are the main target species of deep water bottom trawl fisheries in the western Mediterranean. Despite their importance for fisheries and conservation, little is known about their larval development, especially in the case of deep water species. In this paper we present new information on the occurrence and morphology of larval stages for some species of commercial interest based on samples collected off the Balearic Islands. Mesozooplankton sampling was carried out using depth-stratified sampling devices at two stations located on the continental shelf break and middle slope, in the northwest and south of Mallorca in late autumn 2009 and summer 2010. We describe in detail the second mysis stage of the red shrimp Aristeus antennatus, not previously known, and the first larval stage of the slipper lobster Scyllarides latus, poorly described almost a hundred years ago. We also report the second finding of larvae of the spider crab Maja squinado and the first capture from the field of larval stages of the rose shrimp Parapenaeus longirostris and slipper lobster in the MediterraneanPublicado
COVID-19 outbreaks in a transmission control scenario: challenges posed by social and leisure activities, and for workers in vulnerable conditions, Spain, early summer 2020
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 community-wide transmission declined in Spain by early May 2020, being replaced by outbreaks and sporadic cases. From mid-June to 2 August, excluding single household outbreaks, 673 outbreaks were notified nationally, 551 active (>6,200 cases) at the time. More than half of these outbreaks and cases coincided with: (i) social (family/friends’ gatherings or leisure venues) and (ii) occupational (mainly involving workers in vulnerable conditions) settings. Control measures were accordingly applied
100 años investigando el mar. El IEO en su centenario (1914-2014).
Se trata de un libro que pretende divulgar a la sociedad las principales investigaciones multidisciplinares llevadas a cabo por el Instituto Español de Oceanografía durante su primer siglo de vida, y dar a conocer la historia del organismo, de su Sede Central y de los nueve centros oceanográficos repartidos por los litorales mediterráneo y atlántico, en la península y archipiélagos.Kongsberg 20
Detailed stratified GWAS analysis for severe COVID-19 in four European populations
Given the highly variable clinical phenotype of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a deeper analysis of the host genetic contribution to severe COVID-19 is important to improve our understanding of underlying disease mechanisms. Here, we describe an extended genome-wide association meta-analysis of a well-characterized cohort of 3255 COVID-19 patients with respiratory failure and 12 488 population controls from Italy, Spain, Norway and Germany/Austria, including stratified analyses based on age, sex and disease severity, as well as targeted analyses of chromosome Y haplotypes, the human leukocyte antigen region and the SARS-CoV-2 peptidome. By inversion imputation, we traced a reported association at 17q21.31 to a ~0.9-Mb inversion polymorphism that creates two highly differentiated haplotypes and characterized the potential effects of the inversion in detail. Our data, together with the 5th release of summary statistics from the COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative including non-Caucasian individuals, also identified a new locus at 19q13.33, including NAPSA, a gene which is expressed primarily in alveolar cells responsible for gas exchange in the lung.S.E.H. and C.A.S. partially supported genotyping through a philanthropic donation. A.F. and D.E. were supported by a grant from the German Federal Ministry of Education and COVID-19 grant Research (BMBF; ID:01KI20197); A.F., D.E. and F.D. were supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Cluster of Excellence ‘Precision Medicine in Chronic Inflammation’ (EXC2167). D.E. was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the framework of the Computational Life Sciences funding concept (CompLS grant 031L0165). D.E., K.B. and S.B. acknowledge the Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF14CC0001 and NNF17OC0027594). T.L.L., A.T. and O.Ö. were funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), project numbers 279645989; 433116033; 437857095. M.W. and H.E. are supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) through the Research Training Group 1743, ‘Genes, Environment and Inflammation’. L.V. received funding from: Ricerca Finalizzata Ministero della Salute (RF-2016-02364358), Italian Ministry of Health ‘CV PREVITAL’—strategie di prevenzione primaria cardiovascolare primaria nella popolazione italiana; The European Union (EU) Programme Horizon 2020 (under grant agreement No. 777377) for the project LITMUS- and for the project ‘REVEAL’; Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda ‘Ricerca corrente’, Fondazione Sviluppo Ca’ Granda ‘Liver-BIBLE’ (PR-0391), Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda ‘5permille’ ‘COVID-19 Biobank’ (RC100017A). A.B. was supported by a grant from Fondazione Cariplo to Fondazione Tettamanti: ‘Bio-banking of Covid-19 patient samples to support national and international research (Covid-Bank). This research was partly funded by an MIUR grant to the Department of Medical Sciences, under the program ‘Dipartimenti di Eccellenza 2018–2022’. This study makes use of data generated by the GCAT-Genomes for Life. Cohort study of the Genomes of Catalonia, Fundació IGTP (The Institute for Health Science Research Germans Trias i Pujol) IGTP is part of the CERCA Program/Generalitat de Catalunya. GCAT is supported by Acción de Dinamización del ISCIII-MINECO and the Ministry of Health of the Generalitat of Catalunya (ADE 10/00026); the Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) (2017-SGR 529). M.M. received research funding from grant PI19/00335 Acción Estratégica en Salud, integrated in the Spanish National RDI Plan and financed by ISCIII-Subdirección General de Evaluación and the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (European Regional Development Fund (FEDER)-Una manera de hacer Europa’). B.C. is supported by national grants PI18/01512. X.F. is supported by the VEIS project (001-P-001647) (co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), ‘A way to build Europe’). Additional data included in this study were obtained in part by the COVICAT Study Group (Cohort Covid de Catalunya) supported by IsGlobal and IGTP, European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union, COVID-19 Rapid Response activity 73A and SR20-01024 La Caixa Foundation. A.J. and S.M. were supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (grant numbers: PSE-010000-2006-6 and IPT-010000-2010-36). A.J. was also supported by national grant PI17/00019 from the Acción Estratégica en Salud (ISCIII) and the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER). The Basque Biobank, a hospital-related platform that also involves all Osakidetza health centres, the Basque government’s Department of Health and Onkologikoa, is operated by the Basque Foundation for Health Innovation and Research-BIOEF. M.C. received Grants BFU2016-77244-R and PID2019-107836RB-I00 funded by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI, Spain) and the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER, EU). M.R.G., J.A.H., R.G.D. and D.M.M. are supported by the ‘Spanish Ministry of Economy, Innovation and Competition, the Instituto de Salud Carlos III’ (PI19/01404, PI16/01842, PI19/00589, PI17/00535 and GLD19/00100) and by the Andalussian government (Proyectos Estratégicos-Fondos Feder PE-0451-2018, COVID-Premed, COVID GWAs). The position held by Itziar de Rojas Salarich is funded by grant FI20/00215, PFIS Contratos Predoctorales de Formación en Investigación en Salud. Enrique Calderón’s team is supported by CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), ‘Instituto de Salud Carlos III’. J.C.H. reports grants from Research Council of Norway grant no 312780 during the conduct of the study. E.S. reports grants from Research Council of Norway grant no. 312769. The BioMaterialBank Nord is supported by the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Airway Research Center North (ARCN). The BioMaterialBank Nord is member of popgen 2.0 network (P2N). P.K. Bergisch Gladbach, Germany and the Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. He is supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). O.A.C. is supported by the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education and is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy—CECAD, EXC 2030–390661388. The COMRI cohort is funded by Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany. This work was supported by grants of the Rolf M. Schwiete Stiftung, the Saarland University, BMBF and The States of Saarland and Lower Saxony. K.U.L. is supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG, LU-1944/3-1). Genotyping for the BoSCO study is funded by the Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Bonn. F.H. was supported by the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Arts. Part of the genotyping was supported by a grant to A.R. from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF, grant: 01ED1619A, European Alzheimer DNA BioBank, EADB) within the context of the EU Joint Programme—Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND). Additional funding was derived from the German Research Foundation (DFG) grant: RA 1971/6-1 to A.R. P.R. is supported by the DFG (CCGA Sequencing Centre and DFG ExC2167 PMI and by SH state funds for COVID19 research). F.T. is supported by the Clinician Scientist Program of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Cluster of Excellence ‘Precision Medicine in Chronic Inflammation’ (EXC2167). C.L. and J.H. are supported by the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF). T.B., M.M.B., O.W. und A.H. are supported by the Stiftung Universitätsmedizin Essen. M.A.-H. was supported by Juan de la Cierva Incorporacion program, grant IJC2018-035131-I funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. E.C.S. is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; SCHU 2419/2-1).Peer reviewe
Detailed stratified GWAS analysis for severe COVID-19 in four European populations
Given the highly variable clinical phenotype of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a deeper analysis of the host genetic contribution to severe COVID-19 is important to improve our understanding of underlying disease mechanisms. Here, we describe an extended GWAS meta-analysis of a well-characterized cohort of 3,260 COVID-19 patients with respiratory failure and 12,483 population controls from Italy, Spain, Norway and Germany/Austria, including stratified analyses based on age, sex and disease severity, as well as targeted analyses of chromosome Y haplotypes, the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) region and the SARS-CoV-2 peptidome. By inversion imputation, we traced a reported association at 17q21.31 to a highly pleiotropic ∼0.9-Mb inversion polymorphism and characterized the potential effects of the inversion in detail. Our data, together with the 5th release of summary statistics from the COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative, also identified a new locus at 19q13.33, including NAPSA, a gene which is expressed primarily in alveolar cells responsible for gas exchange in the lung.Andre Franke and David Ellinghaus were supported by a grant from the German
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (01KI20197), Andre Franke, David
Ellinghaus and Frauke Degenhardt were supported by the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft Cluster of Excellence “Precision Medicine in Chronic
Inflammation” (EXC2167). David Ellinghaus was supported by the German Federal
Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the framework of the
Computational Life Sciences funding concept (CompLS grant 031L0165). David
Ellinghaus, Karina Banasik and Søren Brunak acknowledge the Novo Nordisk
Foundation (grant NNF14CC0001 and NNF17OC0027594). Tobias L. Lenz, Ana
Teles and Onur Özer were funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG,
German Research Foundation), project numbers 279645989; 433116033; 437857095. Mareike Wendorff and Hesham ElAbd are supported by the German
Research Foundation (DFG) through the Research Training Group 1743, "Genes,
Environment and Inflammation". This project was supported by a Covid-19 grant from
the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF; ID: 01KI20197).
Luca Valenti received funding from: Ricerca Finalizzata Ministero della Salute RF2016-02364358, Italian Ministry of Health ""CV PREVITAL – strategie di prevenzione
primaria cardiovascolare primaria nella popolazione italiana; The European Union
(EU) Programme Horizon 2020 (under grant agreement No. 777377) for the project
LITMUS- and for the project ""REVEAL""; Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda ""Ricerca
corrente"", Fondazione Sviluppo Ca' Granda ""Liver-BIBLE"" (PR-0391), Fondazione
IRCCS Ca' Granda ""5permille"" ""COVID-19 Biobank"" (RC100017A). Andrea Biondi
was supported by the grant from Fondazione Cariplo to Fondazione Tettamanti: "Biobanking of Covid-19 patient samples to support national and international research
(Covid-Bank). This research was partly funded by a MIUR grant to the Department of
Medical Sciences, under the program "Dipartimenti di Eccellenza 2018–2022". This
study makes use of data generated by the GCAT-Genomes for Life. Cohort study of
the Genomes of Catalonia, Fundació IGTP. IGTP is part of the CERCA Program /
Generalitat de Catalunya. GCAT is supported by Acción de Dinamización del ISCIIIMINECO and the Ministry of Health of the Generalitat of Catalunya (ADE 10/00026);
the Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) (2017-SGR 529).
Marta Marquié received research funding from ant PI19/00335 Acción Estratégica en
Salud, integrated in the Spanish National RDI Plan and financed by ISCIIISubdirección General de Evaluación and the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional
(FEDER-Una manera de hacer Europa").Beatriz Cortes is supported by national
grants PI18/01512. Xavier Farre is supported by VEIS project (001-P-001647) (cofunded by European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), “A way to build Europe”).
Additional data included in this study was obtained in part by the COVICAT Study
Group (Cohort Covid de Catalunya) supported by IsGlobal and IGTP, EIT COVID-19
Rapid Response activity 73A and SR20-01024 La Caixa Foundation. Antonio Julià
and Sara Marsal were supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and
Competitiveness (grant numbers: PSE-010000-2006-6 and IPT-010000-2010-36).
Antonio Julià was also supported the by national grant PI17/00019 from the Acción
Estratégica en Salud (ISCIII) and the FEDER. The Basque Biobank is a hospitalrelated platform that also involves all Osakidetza health centres, the Basque government's Department of Health and Onkologikoa, is operated by the Basque
Foundation for Health Innovation and Research-BIOEF. Mario Cáceres received
Grants BFU2016-77244-R and PID2019-107836RB-I00 funded by the Agencia Estatal
de Investigación (AEI, Spain) and the European Regional Development Fund
(FEDER, EU). Manuel Romero Gómez, Javier Ampuero Herrojo, Rocío Gallego Durán
and Douglas Maya Miles are supported by the “Spanish Ministry of Economy,
Innovation and Competition, the Instituto de Salud Carlos III” (PI19/01404,
PI16/01842, PI19/00589, PI17/00535 and GLD19/00100), and by the Andalussian
government (Proyectos Estratégicos-Fondos Feder PE-0451-2018, COVID-Premed,
COVID GWAs). The position held by Itziar de Rojas Salarich is funded by grant
FI20/00215, PFIS Contratos Predoctorales de Formación en Investigación en Salud.
Enrique Calderón's team is supported by CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health
(CIBERESP), "Instituto de Salud Carlos III". Jan Cato Holter reports grants from
Research Council of Norway grant no 312780 during the conduct of the study. Dr.
Solligård: reports grants from Research Council of Norway grant no 312769. The
BioMaterialBank Nord is supported by the German Center for Lung Research (DZL),
Airway Research Center North (ARCN). The BioMaterialBank Nord is member of
popgen 2.0 network (P2N). Philipp Koehler has received non-financial scientific grants
from Miltenyi Biotec GmbH, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, and the Cologne
Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases,
University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. He is supported by the German Federal
Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).Oliver A. Cornely is supported by the
German Federal Ministry of Research and Education and is funded by the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's
Excellence Strategy – CECAD, EXC 2030 – 390661388. The COMRI cohort is funded
by Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany. Genotyping was performed by
the Genotyping laboratory of Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland FIMM
Technology Centre, University of Helsinki. This work was supported by grants of the
Rolf M. Schwiete Stiftung, the Saarland University, BMBF and The States of Saarland
and Lower Saxony. Kerstin U. Ludwig is supported by the German Research
Foundation (DFG, LU-1944/3-1). Genotyping for the BoSCO study is funded by the
Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Bonn. Frank Hanses was supported
by the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Arts. Part of the genotyping was
supported by a grant to Alfredo Ramirez from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF, grant: 01ED1619A, European Alzheimer DNA
BioBank, EADB) within the context of the EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative
Disease Research (JPND). Additional funding was derived from the German Research
Foundation (DFG) grant: RA 1971/6-1 to Alfredo Ramirez. Philip Rosenstiel is
supported by the DFG (CCGA Sequencing Centre and DFG ExC2167 PMI and by SH
state funds for COVID19 research). Florian Tran is supported by the Clinician Scientist
Program of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Cluster of Excellence “Precision
Medicine in Chronic Inflammation” (EXC2167). Christoph Lange and Jan Heyckendorf
are supported by the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF). Thorsen Brenner,
Marc M Berger, Oliver Witzke und Anke Hinney are supported by the Stiftung
Universitätsmedizin Essen. Marialbert Acosta-Herrera was supported by Juan de la
Cierva Incorporacion program, grant IJC2018-035131-I funded by
MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. Eva C Schulte is supported by the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; SCHU 2419/2-1).N
Impacts of an “extreme” storm on a low-lying embayed sandy beach (Pals Bay, NW Mediterranean)
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014 (EGU2014), 27 april - 2 may 2014, Vienna, Austria.-- 1 pageThe present study aims to assess the effects of an extreme storm in the medium-term evolution of a low-lying, low-tidal sandy coast based on airborne LIDAR (LIght Detection and Ranging) derived high-resolution topographic data. LIDAR data were acquired by the Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya and analyzed in a Geographical Information System (GIS) environment in order to estimate the shoreline displacement (advance or retreat), volumetric changes of the emerged beach, dune erosion and overswash. LIDAR surveys were undertaken in October 2008 and August 2009 to evaluate the impact of an extreme storm that severely hit the north-west Mediterranean coast on 26 December 2008. During this storm, maximum significant wave heights of 7.5 m (with peaks of 14.4 m of maximum wave height) and maximum wave peak period of 12.8 s were recorded at the Palamós buoy, located at 90 m depth. In addition, several weak to moderate storms also occurred during the study period.
The Pals Bay in the northern of Catalonia (NW Mediterranean) has been chosen for this study because: (i) it is a low-lying coastal land, which makes the coastline highly susceptible to flooding by waves during storms; and (ii) it includes high natural value areas and urbanized ones that show different behavior under the impact of storms. It comprises three beaches: the Pals Bay beach that extends along 6840 m between L¿Estartit and Begur promontories, and two pocket beaches located at the southern end of the Pals Bay, Cala Moreta and Sa Riera, which are only 185 m and 188 m long, respectively.
During the study period, shoreline position and volumetric changes in the large bay beach were not homogeneous. The coastline variations showed alongshore fluctuations up to 40 m, probably related to the development of rhythmic topographies in form of beach cups. Overall, the emerged beach experienced a net volumetric loss of -62 516 m3 (-9.14 m3/m). However, the loss of sediment was not uniform. In urbanized areas, sediment erosion occurred along the whole beach profile, whereas in natural areas foreshore erosion was accompanied by net accumulation of sediment in the backshore. This positive volumetric gain in the upper beach could be largely attributed to overwash processes during the extreme storm, which also caused dune erosion and overwash fan deposition. Nevertheless, the smaller pocked beaches behaved differently. In Cala Moreta, shoreline evolution presented an anti-clockwise rotation of the beach, with a small net loss of sediment of -265 m3 (-1.43 m3/m). Sa Riera showed a small retreat of the shoreline and an important accumulation of sediment in the backshore that resulted in a net positive volume balance in the emerged beach of +2515 m3 (+13.38 m3/m).Peer Reviewe
Simplifying robotic picking tasks in warehouses by using a conveyorlike system
[Resumen] La industria de picking ha experimentado un gran auge debido al éxito de las compañías de comercio electrónico. El proceso de preparado de pequeños pedidos comporta una complejidad inherente debida a la variabilidad de los productos en cuanto a sus formas, colores, texturas y pesos. En este documento se van a discutir diferentes aspectos de este problema y se va a proponer una solución basada en la combinación de tres elementos: un sistema robótico colaborativo con dos brazos, una mesa de preparación de pedidos y un sistema de almacenaje adaptado. Esta solución se evalúa siguiendo las reglas y restricciones propuestas en el Amazon Robotics Challegence 2017 y se compara con la solución elaborada para el Amazon Picking Challenge 2015, con el objetivo de ilustrar las mejoras de rendimiento cuando el problema se adapta al sistema robótico.[Abstract] Item storage and retrieval is forming a crucial part of nearly every industry. The complexity of this process increases dramatically when the stored items differ in shape, color, texture and weight. In this paper we are going to discuss the different aspects of the problem and propose a solution based on a Dual-Arm robotic system, a conveyor- like system and a customized storage system. The items to be picked by the robot have different physical properties that were taken into account while designing the storage system, the conveyor and the grippers.Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad; DPI2015-69041-RUniversidat Jaume I; P1-1B2014-52, PREDOC/2013/0
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Núm. 40 (maig 2015)Sumari: Editorial: Territori trinxat o territori dissenyat? Converses al Vivanda: Alimentació, gastronomia i disseny / Meritxell Durán, Martí Cuixé i Luki Huber. Corresponsal: Enric Mas. École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de La Cambre / Adriana Campi (Responsable de Relacions Internacionals d'Eina
Morphological changes, beach inundation and overwash caused by an extreme storm on a low-lying embayed beach bounded by a dune system (NW Mediterranean)
14 pages, 13 figures, 4 tablesThe geomorphological evolution of a low-lying, micro-tidal sandy beach in the western Mediterranean, Pals beach, was characterized using airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data. Data were collected in prior to and six months after the impact of an extreme storm with a return period of approx. 50 years, with the aim of characterizing the beach's response to the storm. The use of repeated high-resolution topographic data to quantify beach geomorphic changes has allowed assessment of the accuracy of different proxies for estimating beach volume changes. Results revealed that changes in the shoreline position cannot accurately reproduce beach volume changes on low-lying beaches where overwash processes are significant. Observations also suggested that volume estimations from beach profiles do not accurately represent subaerial volume changes at large profile distances on beaches with significant alongshore geomorphological variability. Accordingly, the segmentation of the beach into regularly spaced bins is proposed to assess alongshore variations in the beach volume with the accuracy of the topographic data. The morphological evolution of Pals beach during the study period showed a net shoreline retreat (− 4 m) and a significant sediment gain on the subaerial beach (+ 7.5 m/m). The net gain of sediment is mostly due to the impact of the extreme storm, driving significant overwash processes that transport sediment landwards, increasing volume on the backshore and dunes. The increase of volume on the foreshore and the presence of cuspate morphologies along the shoreline also evidence post-storm beach recovery. Observed morphological changes exhibit a high variability along the beach related to variations in beach morphology. Changes in the morphology and migration of megacusps result in a high variability in the shoreline position and foreshore volume changes. On the other hand, larger morphological changes on the backshore and larger inundation distances occur when the beach and the dunes are lower, favouring the dominance of overwash. The observed storm-induced morphological changes differ from predicted beach storm impacts because of spatial and temporal variations in the beach morphology, suggesting that detailed morphological parameters and indicators used for predicting beach vulnerability to storms should be regularly updated in order to represent the pre-storm beach conditions. Finally, observed morphological changes in Pals Bay evidenced a different behaviour between natural and urban areas, with better post-storm beach recovery on natural areas where the beach is not artificially narrowedIt was supported by the FORMED (CGL2012-33989) Project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. R. Durán is supported by a CSIC JAE-Doc contract co-funded by the FSE (Grant No. JAEDOC035). JAJ was funded by the RISC-KIT (Grant No. 603458) and PaiRisC-M (CTM2011-29808) projects funded by the European Union and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, respectively.Peer Reviewe