Estuarine ecohydrology /

Estuarine Ecohydrology, Second Edition, provides an ecohydrology viewpoint of an estuary as an ecosystem by focusing on its principal components, the river, the estuarine waters, the sediment, the nutrients, the wetlands, the oceanic influence, and the aquatic food web, as well as models of the heal...

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Main Authors: Wolanski, Eric
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology
Group Author: Elliott, M. Michael, 1952 November 3
Published: Elsevier Science,
Publisher Address: Amsterdam :
Publication Dates: 2014.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Edition: Second edition.
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780444633989
Summary: Estuarine Ecohydrology, Second Edition, provides an ecohydrology viewpoint of an estuary as an ecosystem by focusing on its principal components, the river, the estuarine waters, the sediment, the nutrients, the wetlands, the oceanic influence, and the aquatic food web, as well as models of the health of an estuary ecosystem. Estuaries, the intersection of freshwater and coastal ecosystems, exhibit complex physical and biological processes which must be understood in order to sustain and restore them when necessary. This book demonstrates how, based on an understanding of the processes.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (pages cm)
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780444634146
0444634142
Index Number: QH541
CLC: Q178.51
Contents: Estuarine water circulation -- Estuarine sediment dynamics -- Tidal wetlands -- Estuarine ecological structure and functioning -- Ecohydrology models -- Ecohydrology solutions.