General concepts of larval fish ecology in temperate oceans predominantly associate dispersal and survival to exogenous mechanisms such as passive drift along ocean currents. However, for tropical reef fish larvae and species in inland freshwater systems behavioural aspects of habitat selection are evidently important components of dispersal. This study is focused on larval Atlantic herring (Cl...

Studies of phosphorus (P) dynamics in surface sediments of lakes and coastal seas typically emphasize the role of coupled iron (Fe), sulfur (S) and P cycling for sediment P burial and release. Here, we show that anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) also may impact sediment P cycling in such systems. Using porewater and sediment profiles for sites in an oligotrophic coastal basin (Bothnian Sea),...

1. The Coastal Zone 1.1. Climate Change 1.2. Sea Level and Sea Ice Fluctuations 1.3. Coastal Processes 1.4. Sediment Delivery 1.5. Beaches 1.6. Tidal Flats and Marshes 1.7. Mangroves 1.8. Coral Reefs, Coral Cays, Sea Grasses, and Seaweeds 1.9. Eutrophication and Pollution 1.10. Coastal Evolution 2. Estuarine Environments 2.1. Estuaries 2.2. Coastal Lagoons 2.3. Deltas 2.4. Estuarine Evolution 3...

Potentiometric Determination of Dopamine Using a Solid-Contact Polymer Membrane Ion-Selective Electrode Tanji Yin1 2 3 ∗ and Wei Qin1 1Key Laboratory of Coastal Zone Environmental Processes, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research YIC , Chinese Academy of Sciences CAS ; Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Coastal Zone Environmental Processes, YICCAS, Yantai, Shandong 264003, P. R. China 2So...

Coastal regions are dynamic environments that have been the main settlement destinations for human society development centuries. Development by humans and environmental changes resulted in intensive land cover transformation. However, detailed spatiotemporal analyses of such Polish Baltic coastal zone not given sufficient attention. The aim presented work is to fill this gap and, moreover, pre...

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Advanced, multidimensional models are typically applied when researching processes occurring in the nearshore. Relatively simple, empirical equations are commonly used in coastal engineering practice in order to estimate extreme wave run-up on beaches and coastal structures. However, they were mostly calibrated to the characteristics of oceanic coasts, which have different wave regime than a se...

Seagrasses are aquatic flowering plants that occur worldwide and may be abundant on soft and sandy bottoms along coastal margins (1). In recent decades, a decrease in aerial extension has occurred mainly along industrialized coasts. This is documented throughout many distributional areas (2) and is one reason why seagrasses are listed in the Rio-declaration (1992/93:13) as habitats worthy of pr...

Anabaena is a filamentous, N(2)-fixing, and morphologically diverse genus of cyanobacteria found in freshwater and brackish water environments worldwide. It contributes to the formation of toxic blooms in freshwater bodies through the production of a range of hepatotoxins or neurotoxins. In the Baltic Sea, Anabaena spp. form late summer blooms, together with Nodularia spumigena and Aphanizomeno...