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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