Coastal Lagoons

Critical Habitats of Environmental Change

Michael J. Kennish, Hans W. Paerl

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9781138111844
• eBook ISBN: 9781040069028
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Ecology
• Index: Computer Science

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• The Editors
• Contributors
• 1 Coastal Lagoons Critical Habitats of Environmental Change
• 2 Assessing the Response of the Pamlico Sound, North Carolina, USA to Human and Climatic Disturbances Management Implications
• 3 Sources and Fates of Nitrogen in Virginia Coastal Bays
• 4 Ecosystem Health Indexed through Networks of Nitrogen Cycling
• 5 Blooms in Lagoons: Different from Those of River- Dominated Estuaries
• 6 Relationship between Macroinfaunal Diversity and Community Stability, and a Disturbance Caused by a Persistent Brown Tide Bloom in Laguna Madre, Texas
• 7 The Choptank Basin in Transition Intensifying Agriculture, Slow Urbanization, and Estuarine Eutrophication
• 8 Seagrass Decline in New Jersey Coastal Lagoons A Response to Increasing Eutrophication
• 9 Controls Acting on Benthic Macrophyte Communities in a Temperate and a Tropical Estuary
• 10 Phase Shifts, Alternative Stable States, and the Status of Southern California Lagoons
• 11 Lagoons of the Nile Delta
• 12 Origins and Fate of Inorganic Nitrogen from Land to Coastal Ocean on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
• 13 Subtropical Karstic Coastal Lagoon Assessment, Southeast Mexico The Yucatan Peninsula Case
• 14 Seasonal and Interannual Variability of Planktonic Microbes in a Mesotidal Coastal Lagoon (Ria Formosa, SE Portugal) Impact of Climatic Changes and Local Human Influences
• 15 A Comparison of Eutrophication Processes in Three Chinese Subtropical Semi-Enclosed Embayments with Different Buffering Capacities
• 16 The Wadden Sea A Coastal Ecosystem under Continuous Change
• 17 The Patos Lagoon Estuary, Southern Brazil
• 18 Structure and Function of Warm Temperate East Australian Coastal Lagoons Implications for Natural and Anthropogenic Changes
• 19 Response of the Venice Lagoon Ecosystem to Natural and Anthropogenic Pressures over the Last 50 Years
• 20 Effect of Freshwater Inflow on Nutrient Loading and Macrobenthos Secondary Production in Texas Lagoons
• Index