Nutrients and Eutrophication in Estuaries and Coastal Waters

Chapter 1 Causes, historical development, effects and future challenges of a common environmental problem: eutrophication

Chapter 2 Modern foraminiferal record of alternating open and restricted environmental conditions in the Santo André lagoon, SW Portugal

Chapter 3 Nutrient inputs to the Irish Sea: temporal and spatial perspectives

Chapter 4 Nutrient-enhanced productivity in the northern Gulf of Mexico: past, present and future

Chapter 5 Potential modification of the fluxes of nitrogen from the Humber Estuary catchment (U.K.) to the North Sea in response to changing agricultural inputs and climate patterns

Chapter 6 Estimation of ecological exergy using weighing parameters determined from DNA contents of organisms — a case study

Chapter 7 Trophic status based on nutrient concentration scales and primary producers community of tropical coastal lagoons influenced by groundwater discharges

Chapter 8 ‘Ferry-Boxes’ and data stations for improved monitoring and resolution of eutrophication-related processes: application in Southampton Water UK, a temperate latitude hypernutrified estuary

Chapter 9 Identifying ‘hot spots’ of biological and anthropogenic activity in two Irish estuaries using means and frequencies

Chapter 10 Distribution patterns of nutrients and symptoms of eutrophication in the Rio de la Plata River Estuary System

Chapter 11 Baseline study of soft bottom benthic assemblages in the Bay of Santander (Gulf of Biscay)

Chapter 12 Nutrient (N, P, Si) fluxes between marine sediments and water column in coastal and open Adriatic

Chapter 13 Nitrogen fluxes and budget seasonality in the Ria Vigo (NW Iberian Peninsula)

Chapter 14 The winter and summer partitioning of dissolved nitrogen and phosphorus. Observations across the Irish Sea during 1997 and 1998

Chapter 15 Long-term changes in Wadden Sea nutrient cycles: importance of organic matter import from the North Sea

Chapter 16 Particulate inputs to Dublin Bay and to the South Lagoon, Bull Island

Chapter 17 A model for predicting the temporal evolution of dissolved oxygen concentration in shallow estuaries

Chapter 18 Modelling the faecal coliform concentrations in the Bilbao estuary

Chapter 19 Simulating vertical water mixing in homogeneous estuaries: the SADO Estuary case

Chapter 20 Mathematical modelling as a management tool for water quality control of the tropical Beberibe estuary, NE Brazil

Chapter 21 The prediction of nutrients into estuaries and their subsequent behaviour: application to the Tamar and comparison with the Tweed, U.K.

Chapter 22 Seasonal change in the proportion of bacterial and phytoplankton production along a salinity gradient in a shallow estuary

Chapter 23 The planktonic food web structure of a temperate zone estuary, and its alteration due to eutrophication

Chapter 24 The feeding strategy of the dunlin ( Calidris alpina L.) in artificial and non-artificial habitats at Ria de Aveiro, Portugal

Chapter 25 Short-term variations in the physiological state of phytoplankton in a shallow temperate estuary

Chapter 26 Evidence of a planktonic food web response to changes in nutrient input dynamics in the Mar Menor coastal lagoon, Spain

Chapter 27 Some ecological properties in relation to eutrophication in the Baltic Sea

Chapter 28 Evaluation of the nutrient inputs to a coastal lagoon: the case of the Ria de Aveiro, Portugal

Chapter 29 Evaluation of a eutrophic coastal lagoon ecosystem from the study of bottom sediments

Chapter 30 Changes in point and non-point sources phosphorus loads in the Thau catchment over 25 years (Mediterranean Sea — France)

Chapter 31 Nutrients related to the hydrologic regime in the coastal lagoons of Viladecans (NE Spain)

Chapter 32 Filling of a wetland (Seine estuary, France): natural eutrophication or anthropogenic process? A sedimentological and geochemical study of wetland organic sediments

Chapter 33 The effects of macroalgal cover on the spatial distribution of macrobenthic invertebrates: the effect of macroalgal morphology

Chapter 34 Importance of discards of a beam trawl fishery as input of organic matter into nursery areas within the Tagus estuary

Chapter 35 The intertidal soft-bottom infaunal macrobenthos in three Basque estuaries (Gulf of Biscay): a feeding guild approach

Chapter 36 ‘ In vitro ’ and ‘ in situ ’ decomposition of nuisance macroalgae Cladophora glomerata and Pilayella littoralis

Chapter 37 Late Holocene pollution in the Gernika estuary (southern Bay of Biscay) evidenced by the study of Foraminifera and Ostracoda

Chapter 38 Planktonic chlorophyll a and eutrophication in two Mediterranean littoral systems (Mallorca Island, Spain)

Chapter 39 Physiological response of Spisula subtruncata (da Costa, 1778) to different seston quantity and quality

Chapter 40 The management of nutrients and potential eutrophication in estuaries and other restricted water bodies