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Coastal Lagoons - Critical Habitats of Environmental Change (Paperback)
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Coastal Lagoons - Critical Habitats of Environmental Change (Paperback)
Series: CRC Marine Science
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Dynamic and productive ecosystems, coastal lagoons play an
important role in local economies and often bear the brunt of
coastal development, agricultural, and urban waste, overuse from
fisheries, aquaculture, transportation, energy production, and
other human activities. The features that make coastal lagoons
vital ecosystems underline the importance of sound management
strategies for long-term environmental and resource sustainability.
Written by an internationally renowned group of contributors,
Coastal Lagoons: Critical Habitats of Environmental Change examines
the function and structure of coastal lagoonal ecosystems and the
natural and anthropogenic drivers of change that affect them. The
contributors examine the susceptibility of coastal lagoons to
eutrophication, the indicators of eutrophic conditions, the
influences of natural factors such as major storms, droughts and
other climate effects, and the resulting biotic and ecosystem
impairments that have developed worldwide. They provide detailed
descriptions of the physical-chemical and biotic characteristics of
diverse coastal lagoonal ecosystems, and address the environmental
factors, forcing features, and stressors affecting hydrologic,
biogeochemical, and trophic properties of these important water
bodies. They also discuss the innovative tools and approaches used
for assessing ecological change in the context of
anthropogenically- and climatically-mediated factors. The book
investigates the biogeochemical and ecological responses to
nutrient enrichment and other pollutants in lagoonal estuaries and
compares them to those in other estuarine types. With editors among
the most noted international scholars in coastal ecology and
contributors who are world-class in their fields, the chapters in
this volume represent a wide array of studies on natural and
anthropogenic drivers of change in coastal lagoons located in
different regions of the world. Although a significant number of
journal articles on the subject can be found in the literature,
this book provides a single-source reference for coastal lagoons
within the arena of the global environment.
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