Coastal Ecosystems
Progress in management of coastal ecosystems
... ABSTRACT: The process of coastal zone management in the United States has progressed to the point that it is now possible to embrace whole coastal ecosystems in management prog[r] ...
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Assessing willingness to pay for marine and coastal ecosystems: A Case Study in Greece
... According to Jones et al. (2011) tourism has significant positive and negative impacts on the management of coastal ecosystems with high biodiversity value. In Crete, there have been investigated the ...
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Climate Regulation as a Service from Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystems
... and coastal ecosystems (ECEs) are cap able of regulating both global and regional climates by sequestering or releasing carbon and other greenhouse gases (GHGs), and by modifying local temperature and ...
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Modelling, Transport and Assessment of Aquatic Toxic Metals in Coastal Ecosystems
... The coastal ecosystem consists of the interaction of El Yucateco lagoon with the Chicozapote and Tonalá rivers, that connect the lagoon with the Gulf of ...the coastal ecosystem, focusing on toxic ...
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Impact of environmental change on primary production in model marine coastal ecosystems
... that coastal ecosystems, particularly estuaries, provide a variety of essential services to ...these ecosystems: they are the main primary producers; the net importers of nutrients; and the metabolic ...
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The use of contingent valuation in assessing marine and coastal ecosystems’ water quality: A review
... and coastal ecosystems are of high importance owing to the mankind dependence on the goods and services ...and coastal ecosystems, the aim of this study is to review as more as possible ...
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Are aliens threatening European aquatic coastal ecosystems?
... European coastal habitats and then discuss the multiple effects that invaders can have on recipient biota, and finally con- clude with what we think is the most appropriate per- spective on the effects of introduced ...
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ENVIRONMENTAL PERCEPTION ABOUT MARINE AND COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS: EVALUATION THROUGH A RESEARCH INSTRUMENT BASED ON MODEL OF ECOLOGICAL VALUES
... near coastal areas from ...and coastal environments, contributing to development and evaluation of future Environmental Educational program focus on these important ...
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Reviews and syntheses: 210Pb derived sediment and carbon accumulation rates in vegetated coastal ecosystems – setting the record straight
... vegetated coastal ecosystems are known to be heterogeneous, consisting of coarse-grained deposits or bedrock covered by fine-grained sediments that settled as vegetation established (McGlathery et ...
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The climatic factors, determining the biological diversity of the middle Caspian Sea and coastal ecosystems, the atmospheric-synoptic processes, commotions and currents
... and coastal ecosystems, are ...and coastal ecosystems, are determined by the geographic position of the sea, the conditions of atmospheric circulation, the nature of the underlying surface, ...
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The role of apex predators in coastal ecosystems: A case study examining the Broadnose Sevengill Shark Notorynchus Cepedianus
... in coastal areas was detected by both CPUE and movement ...these coastal areas for winter and return the following ...into coastal systems following their main chondrichthyan prey (Barnett et ...
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Coastal ecosystems: a critical element of risk reduction
... Ecosystems can also reduce erosion and build sedi- ments, in some cases maintaining or increasing the sur- face elevation of the substrate. Most generate organic and/or mineral sediments such as carbonate sands, ...
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Classification of Estuarine and Nearshore Coastal Ecosystems
... and coastal waters, they focus on valuing in economic terms the direct ...and coastal waters in a crowded, full world ...and coastal seas, the direct human impact on estuaries and coasts, and the ...
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The role of apex predators in coastal ecosystems: A case study examining the Broadnose Sevengill Shark Notorynchus Cepedianus
... Chapter 2 Jayson Semmens Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies - IMAS and John Stevens CSIRO are the primary supervisors for this PhD.. Both provided advice on field techniques and [r] ...
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Vulnerability of coastal ecosystems to changes in harmful algal bloom distribution in response to climate change: projections based on model analysis
... of coastal systems to HAB events, increased regional HAB impacts to aquaculture, increased risks to human health and ecosystems, and economic consequences of these events due to losses to fisheries and ...
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Assessment of Microbiological Contamination of Marine Ecosystems : Can we Continue to Limit Ourselves to the Analysis of Fecal Parameters for the Assessment of the Coastal Ecosystems Quality?
... the coastal and shellfish areas of the Agadir coast (south of Morocco), 801 samples of mussel, sea water, and marine sediment collected for48 months from six site along the Moroccan Atlantic coast between ...
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Seal carrion is a predictable resource for coastal ecosystems
... The timing, quantity, quality and spatial distribution of seal carrion were.. selected as key attributes of the resource that can be expected to have a major.[r] ...
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Economic valuation of marine and coastal ecosystems : is it currently fit for purpose?
... Unlike coastal systems, the vast majority of people cannot explore the deep ...these ecosystems, a valuation workshop method was used to collect the choice experiment data, as part of which people were ...
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Evaluation of the Quality of Coastal Ecosystems in the Spermonde Archipelago Using Macroalgae as Indicators
... Turbidity is a limiting factor for the process of photosynthesis and primary production because it affects the penetration of light where the turbidity of the waters is a description of the optical proper- ties of a ...
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Using remote sensing to assess tsunami-induced impacts on coastal forest ecosystems at the Andaman Sea coast of Thailand
... impacted coastal ecosystems along the Andaman Sea coast of Thai- ...different coastal forest ecosystems at the Phang-Nga province coast is analysed with a remote sensing driven approach based ...
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