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Coastal Ecosystem Processes, written by the renowned marine scientist Daniel Alongi, describes how pelagic and benthic food webs, from beaches and tidal flats to the continental edge, process energy and matter. This volume focuses on recent advances and new developments on how food webs are closely intertwined with the geology, chemistry, and physics of coastal seas. Dr. Alongi presents a process-functional approach as a way of understanding how the energetics of coastal ecosystems rely not only on exchanges within and between food chains, but how such functions are influenced by terrigenous and atmospheric processes. There is a need for documentation and an awareness of just how necessary, yet delicate, is the interplay of biological and physical forces between coastal ocean, land, and the atmosphere. Marine scientists today need to make informed management decisions about sustainable development and conservation of these fragile ecosystems. Coastal Ecosystem Processes provides present and future marine scientists the latest coastal ecosystem information to make the right decisions concerning the ecology of our oceans.
There is a need for documentation and awareness of how necessary
and delicate the interplay is among the biological and physical
forces of ocean, land, and the atmosphere. Dr. Alongi, an
outstanding marine scientist known worldwide for his work on
tropical marine systems, presents research on coastal ecosystem
processes from both the temperate and tropical perspectives.
Coastal Ecosystem Processes includes the information on tropical
marine and estuarine habitat problems such as pesticides,
pollution, mining, declining fisheries yields, changes in the sea
level, atmospheric CO2, and aquaculture. The importance of
conserving fragile ecosystems such as mangroves and coral reefs is
discussed.
This work summarizes the science and management of a rapidly
expanding topic in climate science, namely adaptation and
mitigation. The term 'blue carbon' refers to the rates, pathways
and volumes of greenhouse carbon sequestered in coastal estuarine
and marine ecosystems such as salt marshes, mangroves and seagrass
meadows. Blue carbon and its vital role in climate change
mitigation are central to this book. Readers find summaries and
analysis of both the basic scientific data and data from blue
carbon field projects, and a practical guide on how to manage a
successful blue carbon field project. There is a discussion on how
to maximize the carbon sequestration and consideration of whether
blue carbon projects make a difference. The work is not only of
interest to scholars involved in climate science, but also those in
the marine sciences, and those in ecosystem ecology,
biogeochemistry; geochemistry; estuarine and marine plant ecology.
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