Based on a project conducted under the auspices of NATO-CCMS, the book provides information and methodologies essential for
Author: I. Ethem Gonenc
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780203493328
Category: Technology & Engineering
Page: 528
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Coastal Lagoons: Ecosystem Processes and Modeling for Sustainable Use and Development describes the concepts, models, and data needed to design and implement management programs for long-term sustainability of coastal lagoons. Based on a project conducted under the auspices of NATO-CCMS, the book provides information and methodologies essential for
Secondary productivity in coastal lagoons. Pp. 287–309, In: I. E. Gonenc and J. P. Wolflin (eds.), Coastal lagoons: Ecosystem processes and modeling for sustainable use and development. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press.
Author: Michael J. Kennish
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9781420088311
Category: Computers
Page: 568
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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.
Seasonal changes in macrophyte and macrozoo- benthos assemblages in three coastal lagoons under varying degrees of ... I. E. & J. P. Wolflin (eds), Coastal Lagoons: Ecosystem Processes and Modeling for Sustainable Use and Development.
Author: P., Viaroli
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781402060083
Category: Science
Page: 168
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This interdisciplinary volume comprehensively reviews recent developments in wetland science and global change. The aim is to identify gaps, problems and successes in the integration of scientific issues into lagoon and coastal wetland management. The major strength of this volume is that it integrates several fields of research including climatology, hydrology, geomorphology, ecology and biology.
Therefore, coastal lagoon systems lend themselves well as highly subject to threat from terrorist attack. The book Coastal Lagoons: Ecosystem Processes and Modeling for Sustainable Use and Development (CRC Press, 2005) presented models ...
Author: I. Ethem Gonenc
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781402055287
Category: Science
Page: 390
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Water has become one of the potential targets of terrorists. This volume addresses the basic scientific concepts that must be integrated by decision-makers to minimize damages and optimize recovery operations in the aftermath of such an attack. It addresses the multidisciplinary approaches for rapid diagnoses and assessments, and offers a step-by-step treatment of all aspects of ecosystem processes, modelling and monitoring.
Water Resources Systems Planning and Management - An luction to Methods, Models and Applications. ... In: Coastal Lagoons: Ecosystem Processes, and Modeling for Sustainable Use (evelopment, Eds: Gonenc, I.E., Wolflin, I. CRC Press, ...
Author: I. Ethem Gönenç
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781402085581
Category: Technology & Engineering
Page: 532
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John Wesley Powell, U.S. scientist and geographer, put it best when he said that a watershed is: ...that area of land, a bounded hydrologic system, within which all living things are inextricably linked by their common water course and where, as humans settled, simple logic demanded that they become part of a community. Watersheds come in all shapes and sizes. They cross sectorial boundaries (e.g. county, state/province, and country). No matter where you are, you are in a watershed! World-wide, watersheds supply drinking water, provide r- reation and respite, and sustain life. Watersheds are rich in natural capital, producing goods (agriculture and fisheries products) and services (industry and technology) for broad geographic areas. In many countries, at the base of watersheds where tributaries empty into large water-bodies (e.g. estuaries, seas, oceans) are centers of society and are typically densely populated areas. These areas serve as concentrated centers of the socio-economic system. They also are centers of domestic and international trade, tourism, and c- merce as well as the center of governments (capitals) where local, regional and national legislatures are located. As we all live in a watershed, our individual actions can directly affect it. The cumulative effects of all the individual actions of everyone within a watershed may be, and often are devastating to the quality of water resources and affect the health of living things including humans. Therefore, watershed systems are highly subject to threat to human security and peace.
In: Gönenç, I.E., Wolflin, J.P. (Eds.), Coastal Lagoons: Ecosystem Processes and Modeling for Sustainable Use and Development. CRC Press, Boca Ratón, FL, pp. 392–422. Pérez-Ruzafa, A., Mompeán, M.C., Marcos, C., 2005b.
Author: Eric Wolanski
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 9780128140048
Category: Science
Page: 726
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Coasts and Estuaries: The Future provides valuable information on how we can protect and maintain natural ecological structures while also allowing estuaries to deliver services that produce societal goods and benefits. These issues are addressed through chapters detailing case studies from estuaries and coastal waters worldwide, presenting a full range of natural variability and human pressures. Following this, a series of chapters written by scientific leaders worldwide synthesizes the problems and offers solutions for specific issues graded within the framework of the socio-economic-environmental mosaic. These include fisheries, climate change, coastal megacities, evolving human-nature interactions, remediation measures, and integrated coastal management. The problems faced by half of the world living near coasts are truly a worldwide challenge as well as an opportunity for scientists to study commonalities and differences and provide solutions. This book is centered around the proposed DAPSI(W)R(M) framework, where drivers of basic human needs requires activities that each produce pressures. The pressures are mechanisms of state change on the natural system and Impacts on societal welfare (including well-being). These problems then require responses, which are the solutions relating to governance, socio-economic and cultural measures (Scharin et al 2016). Covers estuaries and coastal seas worldwide, integrating their commonality, differences and solutions for sustainability Includes global case studies from leading worldwide contributors, with accompanying boxes highlighting a synopsis about a particular estuary and coastal sea, making all information easy to find Presents full color images to aid the reader in a better understanding of details of each case study Provides a multi-disciplinary approach, linking biology, physics, climate and social sciences
In I. Gönenç and J. Wolflin (Eds.), Coastal lagoons: ecosystem processes and modeling for sustainable use and development, pp. 231–306. Boca Raton: CRC Press. ... Modeling the venice lagoon water residence time. Ecol. Model. 193, 34–51.
Author: Sébastien Erpicum
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9781498781497
Category: Science
Page: 216
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In an increasingly urbanized world, water systems must be designed and operated according to innovative standards in terms of climate adaptation, resource efficiency, sustainability and resilience. This grand challenge triggers unprecedented questions for hydro-environment research and engineering. Shifts in paradigms are urgently needed in the way we view (circular) water systems, water as a renewable energy (production and storage), risk management of floods, storms, sea level rise and droughts, as well as their consequences on water quality, morphodynamics (e.g., reservoir sedimentation, scour, sustainability of deltas) and the environment. Addressing these issues requires a deep understanding of basic processes in fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, surface and groundwater flow, among others.
... “The ecology of the Mar Menor coastal lagoon: a fast-changing ecosystem under human pressure”, in GÖNENÇ I.E., WOLFLIN J.P. (eds), Coastal Lagoons: Ecosystem Processes and Modeling for Sustainable Use and Development, pp.
Author: Mohamed Hichem Kara
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781119572169
Category: Nature
Page: 288
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Lagoons and estuaries are transition spaces between earth and sea. Beyond their expanse, geographic repartition, geomorphological, hydroclimatic and ecobiological diversity and biodiversity, they play an important role in regional economies and are some of the ecosystems most vulnerable to global change. Reinforced by numerous references, this book studies Mediterranean lagoonal and estuarine fishes whose diversity largely depends on the composition of neighboring marine and continental ichtyofauna. The authors describe their morphological, biological, ecological and behavioral characteristics by evoking their distinctive features and differences with their marine or freshwater homologues. Their adaptation strategies, elucidated thanks to recent advances in morphology, genetics and molecular biology, are recognized as a major advantage in the context of climate change. This book is for natural environment managers, engineers, teachers, students and researchers.
Author: Sriyanie MiththapalaPublish On: 2013-01-01
Biodiversity of Coastal Lagoon Ecosystems and Their Vulnerability to Global Change. Pp 29-40 in Ecosystems Biodiversity O. Grillo ... Chapter 5 in Coastal Lagoons Ecosystem Processes and Modeling for Sustainable Use and Development ed.
Author: Sriyanie Miththapala
Publisher: IUCN
ISBN: 9789550205219
Category: Nature
Page: 84
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Coastal lagoons and estuaries, lying at the boundary between ocean and land, house a unique mosaic of habitats, giving rise to high species diversity and the creation of ecotones. They are also ecologically and economically important ecosystems that provide many ecosystem services. Yet, these coastal ecosystems are facing a gamut of human-induced threats. This booklet is the fourth in the Coastal Ecosystems Series, published in an attempt to address the lack of information available to the general public regarding the threats to coastal ecosystems.
In Models in ecosystem science, C.D. Canham, J.J. Cole, and W.K. Lauenroth, Editors, Princeton University Press: ... In Coastal lagoons: ecosystem processes and modeling for sustainable use and development, I.E. Gönenç and J.P. Wolflin, ...
Author: Brian J. Williams
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9781847289605
Category: Aquatic ecology
Page: 702
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The book describes models of aquatic ecosystems, ranging from lakes to estuaries to the deep ocean. It provides a background in the physical and biological processes, numerical methods and elementary ecosystem models. It describes two of the most widely used hydrodynamic models and presents a number of case studies. The practice of modelling in management is discussed.