Oxygen dynamics in coastal and lagoon ecosystems

Participation and Sustainable Management of Coastal Lagoon Ecosystems: The Case of the Fosu Lagoon in Ghana

Participation as a tool has been applied as a social learning process and communication platform to create awareness among stakeholders in the context of resource utilisation. The application of participatory processes to aquatic ecosystem management is attracting a growing body of literature. However, the application of participation as a tool for sustainable management of coastal lagoon ecosy...

Biodiversity of Coastal Lagoon Ecosystems and Their Vulnerability to Global Change

In this chapter we define coastal lagoons according the definition proposed by Kjerfve (1994) as “shallow water bodies separated from the ocean by a barrier, connected at least intermittently to the ocean by one or more restricted inlets, and usually oriented shoreparallel”. This definition is given in an introduction chapter of a multiauthor book edited by Kjerfve (1994). Nevertheless, in the ...

1 Solutions for a Complex Coastal Lagoon: Integrated Coastal Management and Venice Lagoon

Hydrodynamics and water quality assessment of a coastal lagoon using environmental fluid dynamics code explorer modeling system

Ciénaga de Mallorquín is a coastal lagoon designated as a RAMSAR site due to its ecological regional and international importance. In this work, the environmental fluid dynamics code explorer modeling system was implemented to determine the spatio-temporal distribution of temperature, dissolved oxygen, chemical oxygen demand and nutrient levels, and assess the trophic status of Ciénaga de Mallo...

Hierarchical scaling of biodiversity in lagoon ecosystems

Lagoons are habitat islands in the coastal landscapes characterised by both among ecosystems 1 heterogeneity, due to different terrestrial-freshwater, freshwater-marine interfaces, and within ecosystem heterogeneity, due patchy spatial and temporal distribution of biotic and abiotic