We assessed mercury levels in the feathers of little tern (Sternula albifrons) chicks from hatching to fledging and in their prey captured by adults in three main foraging habitats: lagoon, salinas, and adjacent sea. These data were used to model mercury concentration in chick feathers through food ingestion, in order to explore the effects that changes in diet would have on the mercury burden ...

Dissolved oxygen (DO) is one of the most important environmental variables of water quality, especially for marine life. Consequently, oxygen is one of the Chemical Quality Elements required for the implementation of European Union Water Framework Directive. This study uses the example of the Ria Formosa, a meso-tidal lagoon on the south coast of Portugal to demonstrate how monitoring of water ...

Mar Menor is one of the largest coastal lagoons in Mediterranean basin. Over years, has suffered a significant environmental degradation due to multiple factors with anthropogenic origin. The transformation from rain-fed basin intensive irrigated agriculture led an rise water inflow and nutrients basin, which provoked severe eutrophication. increase changes structure function lagoon ecosystems....

Bull Island (BI) is a coastal sand spit that formed as an unintended consequence of the construction two walls, built over 200 years ago in Dublin Port, Ireland to alleviate silting shipping route. A large lagoon, on land side island was separated 1964 by causeway produce separate lagoons are now impacted different water sources. Here we investigate influence riverine inputs adjacent but unconn...

Coastal lagoons are shallow water masses, discredited from the marines as a barrier that permits to change through one or more inputs. These fragile ecosystems have specific type of sediments with their own characteristics. Biogeochemical processes, mostly intervened by benthic microbial loop, significant for understanding relationships among lagoon and contiguous coastal partition. This study ...

The coastal region of Chabahar Gulf with 1113.7km2 area has been located in the southeast of Iran. In this research, satellite images of ETM+ (2004) were used in order to zoning of sedimentary environments in this Gulf. Methodology of this research was baesd on synthesis of supervised and unsupervised classifications in GIS and ENVI softwares. Based on studies and calculat...

The coastal region of Chabahar Gulf with 1113.7km2 area has been located in the southeast of Iran. In this research, satellite images of ETM+ (2004) were used in order to zoning of sedimentary environments in this Gulf. Methodology of this research was baesd on synthesis of supervised and unsupervised classifications in GIS and ENVI softwares. Based on studies and calculat...

Seepage meters, like most benthic flux chamber techniques, come with inherent concerns about how their presence may alter the environment and flow regimen of the benthic boundary layer and underlying sediments. Flow due to wave and current movement across topographic features induces a downward and upward flow field within the sediments surrounding the feature. We found this Bernoulli-induced f...

A bloom of Karenia brevis Davis developed in September 2007 near Jacksonville, Florida and subsequently progressed south through east Florida coastal waters and the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (ICW). Maximum cell abundances exceeded 106 cells L-1 through October in the northern ICW between Jacksonville and the Indian River Lagoon. The bloom progressed further south during November, and termi...

We determined the distribution of macroalgae in Hog Island Bay, a shallow coastal lagoon in Virginia, USA, seasonally at 12 sites from 1998 to 2000 and at 3 representative sites from 2000 to 2002. We analyzed macroalgal biomass, taxonomic richness, and abundance of two non-native species, the cryptic invader Gracilaria vermiculophylla and the conspicuous Codium fragile, with respect to season, ...