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An Integrated Ecosystem Approach
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Edited By
Gerardo Perillo, Instituto Argentino de Oceanografia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Eric Wolanski, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia
Donald Cahoon, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, US Geological Survey, Beltsville, MD, USA
Mark Brinson, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
Description
Coastal wetlands are under a great deal of pressure from the dual forces of rising sea level and the intervention of human populations
both along the estuary and in the river catchment. Direct impacts include the destruction or degradation of wetlands from land reclamation
and infrastructures. Indirect impacts derive from the discharge of pollutants, changes in river flows and sediment supplies, land clearing,
and dam operations. As sea level rises, coastal wetlands in most areas of the world migrate landward to occupy former uplands. The competition
of these lands from human development is intensifying, making the landward migration impossible in many cases. This book provides an
understanding of the functioning of coastal ecosystems and the ecological services that they provide, and suggestions for their management.
In this book a CD is included containing color figures of wetlands and estuaries in different parts of the world.
Audience
students, engineers, scientists, researchers on coastal environments, and resource managers with special interest in coastal wetland ecosystems.
Contents
COASTAL WETLANDS: AN INTEGRATED ECOSYSTEM APPROACH
Preface
Chapter 1.- Eric Wolanski, Mark M. Brinson, Donald R. Cahoon, Gerardo M.
E. Perillo
Coastal wetlands: A synthesis
Section I. Coastal Wetlands as Ecosystems
Chapter 2.- Colin D. Woodroffe, Gareth Davies
The
morphology and development of tropical coastal wetlands
Chapter 3.- Paula Pratolongo, Jason Kirby, Andrew Plater, Mark M. Brinson
Temperate
coastal wetlands: morphology, sediment processes, and plant communities
Chapter 4.- I. Peter Martini, Robert L. Jefferies, R. I. Guy
Morrison, Kenneth F. Abraham
Polar coastal wetlands: development, structure and landuse
Section II. Physical Processes
Chapter 5.-
Andrea D'Alpaos, Stefano Lanzoni, Andrea Rinaldo, Marco Mariani
Intertidal eco-geomorphological dynamics and hydrodynamic circulation
Chapter 6.- Gerardo M. E. Perillo
Tidal courses: classification, origin and functionality
Chapter 7.- M. Cintia Piccolo
Heat energy
balance in coastal wetlands
Chapter 8.- Yoshihiro Mazda, Eric Wolanski
Hydrodynamics and modeling of water flow in mangrove areas
Chapter
9.- Luigi D'Alpaos, Luca Carniello, Andrea Defina
Mathematical modeling of tidal flow over saltmarshes and tidal flats with applications
to the Venice Lagoon
Section III. Tidal Flats
Chapter 10.- Shu Gao
Geomorphology and sedimentology of tidal flats
Chapter 11.- David
Paterson, Rebeca J. Aspden, Kevin S. Black
Intertidal flats: Ecosystem functioning of soft sediment systems
Chapter 12.- Samantha B.
Joye, Dirk de Beer, Perran L. M. Cook
Biogeochemical dynamics of coastal tidal flats
Section IV. Marshes and Seagrasses
Chapter 13.-
Marianne Holmer
Productivity and biogeochemical cycling in seagrass ecosystems
Chapter 14.- John R.L. Allen
Tidal salt marshes: geomorphology
and sedimentology
Chapter 15.- Jenneke Visser, Donald M. Baltz
Ecosystem structure of tidal saline marshes
Chapter 16.- Craig Tobias,
Scott Neubauer
Salt marsh biogeochemistry – an overview
Chapter 17.- Laurence A. Boorman
The role of freshwater flows on salt marsh
growth and development
Chapter 18.- Dennis Whigham, Andrew H. Baldwin, Aat Barendregt
Tidal freshwater wetlands
Chapter 19.- J. Patrick
Megonigal, Scott C. Neubauer
Biogeochemistry of tidal freshwater wetlands
Section V. Mangroves
Chapter 20.- Joanna C. Ellison
Geomorphology
and sedimentology of mangroves
Chapter 21.- Ruben, J. Lara, Claudio F. Szlafsztein, Marcelo C.L. Cohen, Julian Oxmann, Bettina B.
Schmitt, Pedro.W.M. Souza Filho
Geomorphology and sedimentology of mangroves and salt marshes: the formation of geobotanical units
Chapter
22.- Daniel M. Alongi
Paradigm shifts in mangrove biology
Chapter 23.- Robert R. Twilley, Victor Rivera-Monroy
Nutrient biogeochemistry
of mangrove wetlands
Section VI. Coastal Wetland Restoration and Management
Chapter 24.- Eric I. Paling, Mark Fonseca, Marieke van
Katwijk, Mike van Keulen
Seagrass restoration
Chapter 25.- Stephen Broome, Christopher B. Craft
Tidal marsh creation
Chapter 26.- Paul
Adam
Salt marsh restoration
Chapter 27.- Angus Garbutt, Laurence A. Boorman
Managed realignment: recreating inter-tidal habitats on
formerly reclaimed land
Chapter 28.- Roy R. Lewis III
Methods and criteria for successful mangrove forest restoration
Chapter 29.- Andrew
H. Baldwin, Richard S. Hammerschlag, Donald R. Cahoon
Restoration of tidal freshwater wetlands: Ecosystem characteristics and environmental
constraints
Section VII. Coastal Wetland Sustainability and Landscape Dynamics
Chapter 30.- John Rybczyk, John Callaway
Surface elevation
models
Chapter 31.-Neil Saintilan, Kerrylee Rogers, Karen McKee
Salt marsh - mangrove interactions
Chapter 32.- Enrique Reyes
Spatially-explicit
dynamic wetland modeling
Subject Index
Geographic Index
Taxonomic Index
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Hardbound, 974 pages, publication date: FEB-2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-53103-2
ISBN-10: 0-444-53103-3
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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