Nutrients and Eutrophication in Estuaries and Coastal Waters

1. Modelling of Estuaries and Coastal Waters

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

      • Cesar H. A. Ribeiro, Moacyr Araújo

      Pages 229-237

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

      • R. J. Uncles, A. I. Fraser, D. Butterfield, P. Johnes, T. R. Harrod

      Pages 239-250

2. Pelagic and Benthic Metabolism and Trophic Pathways

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

      • M. A. Almeida, M. A. Cunha, F. Alcântara

      Pages 251-262

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

      • G. M. Capriulo, G. Smith, R. Troy, G. H. Wikfors, J. Pellet, C. Yarish

      Pages 263-333

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

      • A. Luís, J. D. Goss-Custard, M. H. Moreira

      Pages 335-343

   4. Short-term variations in the physiological state of phytoplankton in a shallow temperate estuary

      • Iosu Madariaga

      Pages 345-358

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

      • A. Pérez-Ruzafa, J. Gilabert, J. M. Gutiérrez, A. I. Fernández, C. Marcos, S. Sabah

      Pages 359-369

3. Management and Restoration of Coastal Systems

   1. Some ecological properties in relation to eutrophication in the Baltic Sea

      • E. Bonsdorff, C. Rönnberg, K. Aarnio

      Pages 371-377

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

      • J. Figueiredo da Silva, R. W. Duck, T. S. Hopkins, M. Rodrigues

      Pages 379-385

   3. Evaluation of a eutrophic coastal lagoon ecosystem from the study of bottom sediments

      • F. Frascari, G. Matteucci, P. Giordano

      Pages 387-401

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

      • I. La Jeunesse, J. M. Deslous-Paoli, M. C. Ximénès, J. P. Cheylan, C. Mende, C. Borrero et al.

      Pages 403-411

   5. Nutrients related to the hydrologic regime in the coastal lagoons of Viladecans (NE Spain)

      • Joan Ramon Lucena, Josep Hurtado, Francisco A. Comín

      Pages 413-422

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

      • V. Mesnage, S. Bonneville, B. Laignel, D. Lefebvre, J.-P. Dupont, D. Mikes

      Pages 423-435

4. Response of Pelagic and Benthic Organisms to Eutrophication

   1. The effects of macroalgal cover on the spatial distribution of macrobenthic invertebrates: the effect of macroalgal morphology

      • S. G. Bolam, T. F. Fernandes

      Pages 437-448

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

      • Henrique N. Cabral, Célia M. Teixeira, Rita Gamito, Maria José Costa

      Pages 449-455

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

      • L. García-Arberas, A. Rallo

      Pages 457-468

   4. ‘In vitro’ and ‘in situ’ decomposition of nuisance macroalgae Cladophora glomerata and Pilayella littoralis

      • Tiina Paalme, Henn Kukk, Jonne Kotta, Helen Orav

      Pages 469-476

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

      • A. Pascual, J. Rodriguez-Lazaro, O. Weber, J. M. Jouanneau

      Pages 477-491

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

      • M. Puigserver, G. Ramon, G. Moyà, A. Martínez-Taberner

      Pages 493-504

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

      • Jose L. Rueda, Aad C. Smaal

      Pages 505-511

This volume focuses on the nutrient and organic matter inputs in estuaries and other coastal ecosystems, their effects on geochemistry and community structure and possibilities for recovery of the systems to a trophic state that is beneficial for man and nature.
The book provides many examples of the effects of the enhanced supply of nutrients and organic matter on the chemical features of the water and on the structure, metabolism and trophic pathways of the biological communities.
Also included are several case studies providing considerable insight into the response of the different coastal ecosystems to long term changes in the trophic state of the water.
Current knowledge on modeling as a tool to manage the trophic state of the coastal ecosystems is also dealt with, making this book one of interests to scientist and students as well as managers.

• Eutrophication
• Groundwater
• Sediment
• ecosystem
• ecosystems
• environment
• phytoplankton
• plankton
• water quality and water pollution

• Department of Plant Physiology and Ecology, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain

  Emma Orive

• Institute of Estuarine and Coastal Studies, University of Hull, UK

  Mike Elliott, Victor N. Jonge

• Department of Marine Biology, University of Groningen, Haren, The Netherlands

  Victor N. Jonge

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