Coastal Lagoons: Critical Habitats of Environmental Change
Year: 2010 Language: english Author: Michael j. Kennish Publisher: CRC Press Edition: 1st ed. ISBN: 1420088300 Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 568 Description: 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.
Contents
Contents Preface...............................................................................................................................................ix The Editors.........................................................................................................................................xi Contributors.................................................................................................................................... xiii Chapter 1. Coastal Lagoons: Critical Habitats of Environmental Change.....................................1 Michael J. Kennish and Hans W. Paerl Chapter 2. Assessing the Response of the Pamlico Sound, North Carolina, USA to Human and Climatic Disturbances: Management Implications.............................................. 17 Hans W. Paerl, Robert R. Christian, J. D. Bales, B. L. Peierls, N. S. Hall, A. R. Joyner, and S. R. Riggs Chapter 3. Sources and Fates of Nitrogen in Virginia Coastal Bays............................................ 43 Iris C. Anderson, Jennifer W. Stanhope, Amber K. Hardison, and Karen J. McGlathery Chapter 4. Ecosystem Health Indexed through Networks of Nitrogen Cycling...........................73 Robert R. Christian, Christine M. Voss, Cristina Bondavalli, Pierluigi Viaroli, Mariachiara Naldi, A. Christy Tyler, Iris C. Anderson, Karen J. McGlathery, Robert E. Ulanowicz, and Victor Camacho-Â�Ibar Chapter 5. Blooms in Lagoons:: Different from Those of River-Â�Dominated Estuaries............... 91 Patricia M. Glibert, Joseph N. Boyer, Cynthia A. Heil, Christopher J. Madden, Brian Sturgis, and Catherine S. Wazniak Chapter 6. Relationship between Macroinfaunal Diversity and Community Stability, and a Disturbance Caused by a Persistent Brown Tide Bloom in Laguna Madre, Texas... 115 Paul A. Montagna, Mary F. Conley, Richard D. Kalke, and Dean A. Stockwell Chapter 7. The Choptank Basin in Transition: Intensifying Agriculture, Slow Urbanization, and Estuarine Eutrophication............................................................. 135 Thomas R. Fisher, Thomas E. Jordan, Kenneth W. Staver, Anne B. Gustafson, Antti I. Koskelo, Rebecca J. Fox, Adrienne J. Sutton, Todd Kana, Kristen A. Beckert, Joshua P. Stone, Gregory McCarty, and Megan Lang Chapter 8. Seagrass Decline in New Jersey Coastal Lagoons: A Response to Increasing Eutrophication........................................................................................................... 167 Michael J. Kennish, Scott M. Haag, and Gregg P. Sakowicz Chapter 9. Controls Acting on Benthic Macrophyte Communities in a Temperate and a Tropical Estuary.....................................................................................................203 Sophia E. Fox, Ylra S. Olsen, Mirta Teichberg, and Ivan Valiela Chapter 10. Phase Shifts, Alternative Stable States, and the Status of Southern California Lagoons.....................................................................................................................227 Peggy Fong and Rachel L. Kennison Chapter 11. Lagoons of the Nile Delta......................................................................................... 253 Autumn J. Oczkowski and Scott W. Nixon Chapter 12. Origins and Fate of Inorganic Nitrogen from Land to Coastal Ocean on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.......................................................................................283 Troy Mutchler, Rae F. Mooney, Sarah Wallace, Larissa Podsim, Stein Fredriksen, and Kenneth H. Dunton Chapter 13. Subtropical Karstic Coastal Lagoon Assessment, Southeast Mexico: The Yucatan Peninsula Case............................................................................................307 Jorge A. Herrera-Silveira and Sara M. Morales-Ojeda Chapter 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........................................................................................... 335 Ana B. Barbosa Chapter 15. A Comparison of Eutrophication Processes in Three Chinese Subtropical Semi-Enclosed Embayments with Different Buffering Capacities........................... 367 Kedong Yin, Jie Xu, and Paul J. Harrison Chapter 16. The Wadden Sea: A Coastal Ecosystem under Continuous Change........................399 Katja J. M. Philippart and Eric G. Epping Chapter 17. The Patos Lagoon Estuary, Southern Brazil: Biotic Responses to Natural and Anthropogenic Impacts in the Last Decades (1979–2008)................................ 433 Clarisse Odebrecht, Paulo C. Abreu, Carlos E. Bemvenuti, Margareth Copertino, José H. Muelbert, João P. Vieira, and Ulrich Seeliger Chapter 18. Structure and Function of Warm Temperate East Australian Coastal Lagoons: Implications for Natural and Anthropogenic Changes............................................. 457 Bradley D. Eyre and Damien Maher
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Coastal Lagoons: Critical Habitats of Environmental Change
Language: english
Author: Michael j. Kennish
Publisher: CRC Press
Edition: 1st ed.
ISBN: 1420088300
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 568
Description: 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.
Contents
ContentsPreface...............................................................................................................................................ix
The Editors.........................................................................................................................................xi
Contributors.................................................................................................................................... xiii
Chapter 1. Coastal Lagoons: Critical Habitats of Environmental Change.....................................1
Michael J. Kennish and Hans W. Paerl
Chapter 2. Assessing the Response of the Pamlico Sound, North Carolina, USA to Human
and Climatic Disturbances: Management Implications.............................................. 17
Hans W. Paerl, Robert R. Christian, J. D. Bales, B. L. Peierls, N. S. Hall,
A. R. Joyner, and S. R. Riggs
Chapter 3. Sources and Fates of Nitrogen in Virginia Coastal Bays............................................ 43
Iris C. Anderson, Jennifer W. Stanhope, Amber K. Hardison, and
Karen J. McGlathery
Chapter 4. Ecosystem Health Indexed through Networks of Nitrogen Cycling...........................73
Robert R. Christian, Christine M. Voss, Cristina Bondavalli, Pierluigi Viaroli,
Mariachiara Naldi, A. Christy Tyler, Iris C. Anderson, Karen J. McGlathery,
Robert E. Ulanowicz, and Victor Camacho-�Ibar
Chapter 5. Blooms in Lagoons:: Different from Those of River-�Dominated Estuaries............... 91
Patricia M. Glibert, Joseph N. Boyer, Cynthia A. Heil, Christopher J. Madden,
Brian Sturgis, and Catherine S. Wazniak
Chapter 6. Relationship between Macroinfaunal Diversity and Community Stability, and a
Disturbance Caused by a Persistent Brown Tide Bloom in Laguna Madre, Texas... 115
Paul A. Montagna, Mary F. Conley, Richard D. Kalke, and Dean A. Stockwell
Chapter 7. The Choptank Basin in Transition: Intensifying Agriculture, Slow
Urbanization, and Estuarine Eutrophication............................................................. 135
Thomas R. Fisher, Thomas E. Jordan, Kenneth W. Staver, Anne B.
Gustafson, Antti I. Koskelo, Rebecca J. Fox, Adrienne J. Sutton, Todd Kana,
Kristen A. Beckert, Joshua P. Stone, Gregory McCarty, and Megan Lang
Chapter 8. Seagrass Decline in New Jersey Coastal Lagoons: A Response to Increasing
Eutrophication........................................................................................................... 167
Michael J. Kennish, Scott M. Haag, and Gregg P. Sakowicz
Chapter 9. Controls Acting on Benthic Macrophyte Communities in a Temperate and
a Tropical Estuary.....................................................................................................203
Sophia E. Fox, Ylra S. Olsen, Mirta Teichberg, and Ivan Valiela
Chapter 10. Phase Shifts, Alternative Stable States, and the Status of Southern California
Lagoons.....................................................................................................................227
Peggy Fong and Rachel L. Kennison
Chapter 11. Lagoons of the Nile Delta......................................................................................... 253
Autumn J. Oczkowski and Scott W. Nixon
Chapter 12. Origins and Fate of Inorganic Nitrogen from Land to Coastal Ocean on the
Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.......................................................................................283
Troy Mutchler, Rae F. Mooney, Sarah Wallace, Larissa Podsim,
Stein Fredriksen, and Kenneth H. Dunton
Chapter 13. Subtropical Karstic Coastal Lagoon Assessment, Southeast Mexico: The
Yucatan Peninsula Case............................................................................................307
Jorge A. Herrera-Silveira and Sara M. Morales-Ojeda
Chapter 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........................................................................................... 335
Ana B. Barbosa
Chapter 15. A Comparison of Eutrophication Processes in Three Chinese Subtropical
Semi-Enclosed Embayments with Different Buffering Capacities........................... 367
Kedong Yin, Jie Xu, and Paul J. Harrison
Chapter 16. The Wadden Sea: A Coastal Ecosystem under Continuous Change........................399
Katja J. M. Philippart and Eric G. Epping
Chapter 17. The Patos Lagoon Estuary, Southern Brazil: Biotic Responses to Natural
and Anthropogenic Impacts in the Last Decades (1979–2008)................................ 433
Clarisse Odebrecht, Paulo C. Abreu, Carlos E. Bemvenuti,
Margareth Copertino, José H. Muelbert, João P. Vieira, and Ulrich Seeliger
Chapter 18. Structure and Function of Warm Temperate East Australian Coastal Lagoons:
Implications for Natural and Anthropogenic Changes............................................. 457
Bradley D. Eyre and Damien Maher
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