TY  - BOOK
TI  - Ecological Status Assessment of Transitional Waters
SN  - 9783039439737
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Basel, Switzerland
PB  - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
KW  - Research and information: general
KW  - bicssc
KW  - adaptive management
KW  - air-sea CO2 exchange flux
KW  - aquatic angiosperms
KW  - benthic fauna
KW  - biodiversity
KW  - biological communities
KW  - biological processes
KW  - brine discharge
KW  - Changjiang River estuary plume
KW  - CO2 flux
KW  - coastal lagoon
KW  - coastal lagoons
KW  - coastal monitoring
KW  - community matrix
KW  - confidence interval
KW  - confinement
KW  - desalinization
KW  - ecological assessment
KW  - ecological status
KW  - environmental restoration
KW  - eutrophication
KW  - freshwater flow
KW  - gobies
KW  - habitat conservation
KW  - impacted coastal systems
KW  - invasive alien species
KW  - Kernel standard error
KW  - killifishes
KW  - low salinity zone
KW  - macroinvertebrates
KW  - Macrophyte Quality Index (MaQI), transitional waters
KW  - Mediterranean sea
KW  - Mediterranean Sea
KW  - morphological alterations
KW  - nekton
KW  - net ecosystem production
KW  - organic enrichment
KW  - organic pollution
KW  - osmotic stress
KW  - potential CO2 emissions
KW  - predictive models
KW  - qualitative model
KW  - restoration
KW  - salinity
KW  - saprobity
KW  - sediments
KW  - simulation
KW  - spatial variation
KW  - species interactions
KW  - SWRO desalination
KW  - transitional waters
KW  - trophic status
KW  - uncertainty analysis
KW  - Venice Lagoon
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Coastal transitional ecosystems include a wide range of morphological features-i.e., lagoons, wetlands, estuaries, deltas, and so on. According to the Ramsar Convention, "they are among the most diverse and productive ecosystems" and are continually "degraded and converted to other uses". To protect and restore these highly valuable ecosystems, knowledge of their processes and the assessment of their ecological conditions under anthropogenic pressures is of fundamental importance. The present book contains eight original research papers and a review that provide useful tools to understand the structure and function of transitional waters worldwide. The results allow us to assess the impact of anthropogenic activities and inform stakeholders on the actions that can be taken to manage them. The papers in this book provide different ecological approaches to investigate some main impacts: - benthic and nekton communities were studied to assess the impact of eutrophication and salinity changes; - biological processes in carbon dioxide fluxes were assessed in the framework of climate change; - nekton communities were discussed in relation to habitat morphological degradation; - the role of invasive alien species was considered
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/68574
UR  - https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/3595
ER  -