Climate Change and Estuaries

<p>Climate change is having an increasing impact on coastal estuarine and marine environments worldwide. This book provides state-of-the-art coverage of climate change effects on estuarine ecosystems from local regional and global perspectives. With editors among the most noted international scholars in coastal ecology and estuarine science and contributors who are world-class in their fields the chapters in this volume consist of comprehensive studies in coastal estuarine and marine sciences climate change and coastal management and provide an extensive international collection of data in tabular illustrated and narrative formats useful for coastal scientists planners and managers. </p><p>Comprised of three sections: (1) physical-chemical aspects; (2) biological aspects; and (3) management aspects the book not only examines climatic and non-climatic drivers of change affecting coastal estuarine and marine environments but also their interactions and effects on populations of organisms communities habitats and ecosystem structure and function.</p><p>Pulling together today’s most salient issues and key literature advances for those concerned with coastal management it allows the reader to see across direct and indirect interactions among disciplinary and ecosystem boundaries. </p><p>Climate Change and Estuaries meets the research needs of climate scientists estuarine and marine biologists marine chemists marine geologists hydrologists and coastal engineers while students professors administrators and other professionals will also find it an exhaustive reference.</p>