Fact Sheet

Fact Sheet
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Total Pages: 194
Release: 2003
Genre: Geological mapping
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Coastal Lagoons

Coastal Lagoons
Author: Michael J. Kennish
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2010-06-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1420088319

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.