Estuary

William Froneman

• Publisher: IntechOpen
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9789535138792
• eBook ISBN: 9789535140078
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Geology & Earth Sciences

Estuaries are regarded among the most ecologically threatened ecosystems worldwide largely due to poor land use practices within their catchment areas, freshwater abstraction, coastal development, and resource exploitation. Moreover, these systems act as repositories for various anthropogenic contaminants. The establishment and successful implementation of conservation and management strategies are critically dependent on understanding the links among physicochemical, hydrological, and biological variables within these systems. The book provides a comprehensive overview of selected topics including modeling of water exchange between estuaries and the ocean, sediment geochemistry and mangrove health, climate variability and hydrology, and pesticides in estuaries and ecosystem functioning for various estuaries including permanently open, mangrove, and intermittently open/closed systems in both the northern and the southern hemispheres.

Table of contents

• Estuary
• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1 Coupling Watersheds, Estuaries and Regional Oceanography through Numerical Modelling in the Western Iberia: Thermohaline Flux Variability at the Ocean-Estuary Interface
• Chapter 2 Weather, Hydrological and Oceanographic Conditions of the Northern Coast of the Río de la Plata Estuary during ENSO 2009–2010
• Chapter 3 Pesticides in Worldwide Aquatic Systems: Part I
• Chapter 4 Pesticides in Worldwide Aquatic Systems: Part II
• Chapter 5 The Ecology and Food Web Dynamics of South African Intermittently Open Estuaries
• Chapter 6 The Relationship of Sediment and Intersitial Water Properties with Mangrove Health in a Subtropical Coastal Lagoon of Mexico