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Author: Peter G. Beninger Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319991949 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 429
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Intertidal mudflats are distinct, highly-productive marine habitats which provide important ecosystem services to the land-sea interface. In contrast to other marine habitats, and despite a large body of primary scientific literature, no comprehensive synthesis exists, such that the scattered knowledge base lacks an integrated conceptual framework. We attempt to provide this synthesis by pulling together and contextualizing the different disciplines, tools, and approaches used in the study of intertidal mudflats. The editor pays particular attention to relationships between the various components of the synthesis, both at the conceptual and the operational levels, validating these relationships through close interaction with the various authors.
Author: Peter G. Beninger Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319991949 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 429
Book Description
Intertidal mudflats are distinct, highly-productive marine habitats which provide important ecosystem services to the land-sea interface. In contrast to other marine habitats, and despite a large body of primary scientific literature, no comprehensive synthesis exists, such that the scattered knowledge base lacks an integrated conceptual framework. We attempt to provide this synthesis by pulling together and contextualizing the different disciplines, tools, and approaches used in the study of intertidal mudflats. The editor pays particular attention to relationships between the various components of the synthesis, both at the conceptual and the operational levels, validating these relationships through close interaction with the various authors.
Author: Peter G. Beninger Publisher: ISBN: 9783319991931 Category : NATURE Languages : en Pages :
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Intertidal mudflats are distinct, highly-productive marine habitats which provide important ecosystem services to the land-sea interface. In contrast to other marine habitats, and despite a large body of primary scientific literature, no comprehensive synthesis exists, such that the scattered knowledge base lacks an integrated conceptual framework. We attempt to provide this synthesis by pulling together and contextualizing the different disciplines, tools, and approaches used in the study of intertidal mudflats. The editor pays particular attention to relationships between the various components of the synthesis, both at the conceptual and the operational levels, validating these relationships through close interaction with the various authors.
Author: Wenhua Li Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3662483769 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 701
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The Chinese government is increasingly focusing on ecological construction and has subscribed to a national “Ecological Civilization Construction”. Ecological research and protection practice develop so fast and achieve a lot at the national agenda.This book is a synthesis of five most exciting and dominant themes in contemporary ecological research in China: biodiversity, ecosystem management, degraded ecosystem restoration, global change and sustainable development.This book spans all the Earth's major ecosystems, such as forests, oceans, grasslands, wetlands, lakes, rivers, farmland and cities.This book provides a platform for scientific research across a variety of disciplines. It will be invaluable to experts, policymakers and local officers and will also be a highly useful resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students.This book will allow researchers, students and policymakers outside China to learn about the significant achievements and applications of ecological research within China.
Author: M.P. Weinstein Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 0306475340 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 862
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In 1968 when I forsook horticulture and plant physiology to try, with the help of Sea Grant funds, wetland ecology, it didn’t take long to discover a slim volume published in 1959 by the University of Georgia and edited by R. A. Ragotzkie, L. R. Pomeroy, J. M. Teal, and D. C. Scott, entitled “Proceedings of the Salt Marsh Conference” held in 1958 at the Marine Institute, Sapelo Island, Ga. Now forty years later, the Sapelo Island conference has been the major intellectual impetus, and another Sea Grant Program the major backer, of another symposium, the “International Symposium: Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology”. This one re-examines the ideas of that first conference, ideas that stimulated four decades of research and led to major legislation in the United States to conserve coastal wetlands. It is dedicated, appropriately, to two then young scientists – Eugene P. Odum and John M. Teal – whose inspiration has been the starting place for a generation of coastal wetland and estuarine research. I do not mean to suggest that wetland research started at Sapelo Island. In 1899 H. C. Cowles described successional processes in Lake Michigan freshwater marsh ponds. There is a large and valuable early literature about northern bogs, most of it from Europe and the former USSR, although Eville Gorham and R. L. Lindeman made significant contributions to the American literature before 1960. V. J.
Author: Valerie Ann Partridge Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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While the ecology of the intertidal mudflats of the upper Bay of Fundy has been extensively studied during the warmer months of the year, the winter ecology remains largely unknown. Winter air temperatures average below 0C for several months of the year, and extensive amounts of sediment-laden ice are present on the mudflats and in the seawater during that time. Benthic macroinvertebrates, such as the amphipod 'Corophium volutator', are an important food source for millions of migrating shorebirds and fish in the summer. The question arises as to how these invertebrates survive the winter. In the winter and spring of 1996, I monitored environmental conditions and benthic invertebrate density in the upper intertidal zone at one Minas Basin mudflat, the Windsor mudflat, to gain an understanding of the winter conditions experienced by infauna and of the presumed recolonization of the mudflat in the spring. Hourly weather data and subsurface sediment temperatures at 15-min intervals were collected from late January to early June. Observations of ice on the mudflat were made periodically. Once the ice had disappeared from the mudflat in mid-March, weekly samples were taken for invertebrates and for chlorophyll 'a' (as a measure of abundance of the benthic diatoms which the invertebrates eat). The results indicated that although the air temperature can be substantially colder than the lethal temperature of the invertebrate macrofauna, the sediment temperature is not, which appears to be the result of insulation by ice in or on the sediment. However, the re-floating of ice which has frozen to the sediment may result in portions of the sediment surface and its infaunal inhabitants being removed. Invertebrate abundance patterns failed to reveal evidence of spring immigration. It appears likely that the infauna remain in place over the winter and that recruitment is by reproduction.
Author: John W. Day, Jr. Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 9780471062639 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 578
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This textbook covers the physical and chemical aspects of estuaries, the biology and ecology of key organisms, the flow of organic matter through estuaries, and human interactions, such as the environmental impact of fisheries on estuaries and the effects of global climate change on these important ecosystems. Each chapter will begin with basic concepts and then move on to describing applications and current practice. This new edition is being authored by a team of world experts from the estuarine science community.
Author: João Serôdio Publisher: Frontiers Media SA ISBN: 2889662969 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 311
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Author: Peter G. Beninger
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