Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Estuaries
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Characterization of the Physical, Chemical, and Biological Conditions and Trends in Three South Carolina Estuaries, 1970-1985: Charleston Harbor estuary
Author: Characterization of the Physical, Chemical, and Biological Conditions and Trends in Three South Carolina Estuaries, 1970-1985: Winah Bay and North Inlet estuaries
Author: Estuarine Research, Monitoring, and Resource Protection
Author: Michael J. KennishPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780849319600
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The ongoing growth of human populations within US coastal regions continues to increase habitat loss, eutrophication, organic loading, overfishing, and other anthropogenic stressors in estuarine waters. The National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) is a federally funded initiative that addresses these critical estuarine problems and coastal resource issues at 25 sites in 21 states. Now estuarine and watershed scientists, resource managers, community planners, and other professionals dealing with coastal zone issues have an expert resource describing the NERRS program, organization, goals, and management strategy. Estuarine Research, Monitoring, and Restoration first defines the components and technical aspects of the NERRS program, then provides valuable insight into the program through the presentation of six case studies of NERRS sites. This book examines estuarine problems including degraded water quality, reduction of biodiversity, and problematic invasive species, then analyzes the human impacts affecting estuaries. The comprehensive analysis of the six estuarine reserve locations characterizes each region's physical, chemical, and biological conditions from the perspective of the NERRS program. These case studies include a cross section of sites from three coasts, each study emphasizing the importance of unified efforts of government and citizens to successfully maintain the ecology of these critical areas.
North Inlet/Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Management Plan
Author: Technical Report - South Carolina Marine Resources Center
Author: Marine Resources Research Institute (S.C.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine resources
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Sustainable Development in the Southeastern Coastal Zone
Author: F. John VernbergPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570031984
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
"Rapid population growth in the southeastern coastal zone has had an important influence on both resource management policy at the federal, state, regional, and local levels and the findings of environmental impact studies." These twenty-six papers represent a variety of disciplines and such topics as "policy in its broadest sense, environmental resources, and population trends."--Jacket.
Technical Report
Author: Microbiology of wetlands
Author: Paul BodelierPublisher: Frontiers E-books
ISBN: 2889191443
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Watersaturated soil and sediment ecosystems (i.e. wetlands) are ecologically as well as economically important systems due to their high productivity, their nutrient (re)cycling capacities and their prominent contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions. Being on the transition between terrestrial and – aquatic ecosystems, wetlands are buffers for terrestrial run off thereby preventing eutrophication of inland as well as coastal waters. The close proximity of oxic-anoxic conditions, often created by wetland plant roots, facilitates the simultaneous activity of aerobic as well as anaerobic microbial communities. Input of nutrients and fast recycling due to active aerobes and anaerobes makes these systems highly productive and therefore attractive for humans as well as many other organisms. Wetlands globally are under high pressure due to anthropogenic activities as well as climate change. Changes of land-use as well as altered hydrology due to climate change will lead to disturbance and loss of these habitats. However, the diversity and functioning of microbial communities in wetlands systems in highly underexplored in comparison to soils and aquatic ecosystems. Given the importance of wetlands and their immediate threats combined with the lack of knowledge on the microbiology of these systems is the basis for this special issue, focusing on the current microbiological knowledge and gaps therein to be assessed in future wetland research. Papers (research papers, reviews, perspectives, opinion papers) are welcomed that focus on all aspects that regulate the functioning and community composition of microbes (i.e. bacteria, archaea, protozoa, fungi) in wetland ecosystems (peat, coastal as well as freshwater marshes, flood plains, rice paddies, littoral zones of lakes etc) from all geographic regions. Welcomed topics are physiology, ecology, functioning, biodiversity, biogeography of microbes involved in nutrient cycling (C, N, P, Fe, Mn), green house gas emissions as well as plant-microbe interactions. These studies can be multidisciplinary and cover topics from the molecular to the community level.
Environmental Assessment for Alternative Dredged Material Disposal Sites in Charleston Harbor
Author: A. F. HollandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charleston Harbor (S.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
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Category : Environmental chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description