About this book
Reprinted from Hydrobiologia 352, this volume includes papers on marine and coastal pollution, eutrophication, aquaculture, conservation and utilization, coastal wetlands, and coastal zone management.
Contents
Acid exposure in euryhaline environments - ion regulation and acid tolerance in larval and adult artemia franciscana, B.R. McMahon; effects of two oil dispersants on phototaxis and swimming behaviour on barnacle larvae, P.K.S. Lam; heavy metal accumulation in tissue/organs of a sea cucumber, holothuria leucospilota, Jun Xing and F.S. Chia; mapping and characterization of mangrove-plant communities in Hong Kong, N.F.Y. Tam; gas-exchange responses of the mangrove, avicennia marina, to waterlogged and drained conditions, G. Naidoo; mangrove wetland as wastewater-treatment facility - a field trial, Yuk-Shan Wong; wood structure of aegiceas corniculatum and its ecological adaptations to salinities, Qiang Sun; accumulation and distribution of heavy metals in a simulated mangrove system treated with sewage, N.F.Y. Tam; incidence of heavy metals in the mangrove flora and sediments in Kerala, India, G. Thomas; tolerance of a mangrove plant, aegiceras corniculatum, to synthetic sewage of various strengths, Yuk-Shan Wong; size-fractionated productivity and nutrient dynamics of phytoplankton in subtropical coastal environments, Hai-Li Wang; long-term changes in hydrography, nutrients and phytoplankton in Tolo Harbour, Hong Kong, Ying-Kit Yung; environmental and nutritional factors which regulate population dynamics and toxin production in the dinoflagellate alexandrium catenella, D.K.O. Chan; are changes in N:P ratios in coastal waters the key to increased red tide blooms?, J. Hodgkiss; a comparison of marine planktonic diatoms with diatoms in a Victoria Harbour sediment core, M. Dickman; the essential elements of science and management in coastal environmental management, Thia-Eng Chua; status, problems and prospects of stock enhancement in Taiwan, I-Chiu Liao; human influence or natural perturbation in oceanic and coastal waters - can we distinguish between them?, J.-O. Stromberg; toxic events in the Pacific coastline of the Baja California peninsula in Mexico during 1992-1995 - origin and impact, A. Sierra-Beltran; a biological survey of ballast water in container ships entering Hong Kong, Ka-Hou Chu; decision-making processes in ecological-risk assessment using copper pollution of Macquarie Harbour from Mt Lyell, Tasmania, as a case study, J. Twining; spatial variations of size-fractionated chlorophyll, cyanobacteria and heterotrophic bacteria in the central and western Pacific, I-Hsun Ni; reproductive-function state of the scallop mizuhopecten yessoensis jay from polluted areas of Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan, M. Vaschenko; the use of malformations in pelagic fish embryos for pollution assessment, H.V. Westernhagen; polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in fish from the Red Sea coast of Yemen, H. Heba; the application of gene-transfer techniques to marine-resource management - recent advances, problems and future direction, F.Y.T. Sin.
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