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Written by an outstanding group of contributors, this book examines the function and structure of coastal lagoonal ecosystems and the natural and anthropogenic drivers of change that affect them, most notably nutrient over-enrichment from coastal watersheds and airsheds. The contributors target the susceptibility of coastal lagoons to eutrophication, the indicators of eutrophic conditions, the influences of natural factors such as major storms and other climate effects, and the resulting biotic and ecosystem impairments that have developed. The book compares biogeochemical and ecological response to nutrient enrichment and other pollutants in lagoonal estuaries to those in other estuarine types.

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Author:   Michael J. Kennish ,  Hans W. Paerl ,  Michael J. Kennish
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   CRC Press Inc
Volume:   v. 33
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.164kg
ISBN:  

9781420088304

ISBN 10:   1420088300
Pages:   576
Publication Date:   15 June 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Coastal Lagoons: Critical Habitats of Environmental Change. Assessing the Response of the Pamlico Sound, North Carolina, USA to Human and Climatic Disturbances: Management Implications. Sources and Fates of Nitrogen in Virginia Coastal Bays. Ecosystem Health Indexed through Networks of Nitrogen Cycling. Blooms in Lagoons: Different from Those of River-Dominated Estuaries. Relationship between Macroinfaunal Diversity and Community Stability, and a Disturbance Caused by a Persistent Brown Tide Bloom in Laguna Madre, Texas. The Choptank Basin in Transition: Intensifying Agriculture, Slow Urbanization, and Estuarine Eutrophication. Seagrass Decline in New Jersey Coastal Lagoons: A Response to Increasing Eutrophication. Controls Acting on Benthic Macrophyte Communities in a Temperate and a Tropical Estuary. Phase Shifts, Alternative Stable States, and the Status of Southern California Lagoons. Lagoons of the Nile Delta. Origins and Fate of Inorganic Nitrogen from Land to Coastal Ocean on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Subtropical Karstic Coastal Lagoon Assessment, SE Mexico: The Yucatan Peninsula Case. Seasonal and Interannual Variability of Planktonic Microbes in a Mesotidal Coastal Lagoon (Ria Formosa, SE Portugal): Impact of Climatic Changes and Local Human Influences. A Comparison of Eutrophication Processes in Three Chinese Subtropical Semienclosed Embayments with Different Buffering Capacities. The Wadden Sea: A Coastal Ecosystem under Continuous Change. The Patos Lagoon Estuary: Biotic Responses to Natural and Anthropogenic Impacts in the Last Decades (1979–2008). Structure and Function of Warm Temperate East Australian Coastal Lagoons: Implications for Natural and Anthropogenic Changes. Response of Venice Lagoon Ecosystem to Natural and Anthropogenic Pressures over the Last 50 Years. Effect of Freshwater Inflow on Nutrient Loading and Macrobenthos Secondary Production in Texas Lagoons. Index.

Reviews

One of the advantages of a book of this nature is that it brings together the recent work of leading experts in the field of coastal lagoon research into one volume. Although each chapter tends to focus on a particular system or aspect of research within this field, the major findings of these chapters are neatly summarized by the editors who also provide an overview of the knowledge and challenges that face scientists and managers who work in these important and often highly impacted ecosystems. -Alan K. Whitfield, Chief Scientist, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB), in Marine Biology Research, 2011; 7: 416--417

One of the advantages of a book of this nature is that it brings together the recent work of leading experts in the field of coastal lagoon research into one volume. Although each chapter tends to focus on a particular system or aspect of research within this field, the major findings of these chapters are neatly summarized by the editors who also provide an overview of the knowledge and challenges that face scientists and managers who work in these important and often highly impacted ecosystems. --Alan K. Whitfield, Chief Scientist, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB), in Marine Biology Research, 2011; 7: 416--417

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Michael J. Kennish, Hans W. Paerl

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