Estuarine Shores Evolution, Environments and Human Alterations

About this book

Examines the links between interrelated systems, dealing with environments that intersect the shallow subtidal, intertidal and frequently flooded supratidal shoreline and define the land-water contact along seagrass beds, intertidal flats, beaches, salt marshes, mangroves, plus a wide variety of human altered environments: reclaimed lands, disposal areas, building and shore protection structures.

Contents

Partial table of contents:; Environments, Processes and Interactions of Estuarine Shores (C. Roman & K. Nordstrom); EVOLUTION OF ESTUARINE SHORES; Evolution of Estuarine Shoreline Systems in Sierra Leone (E. Anthony); Shoreline Changes in the Bodden Coast of Northeastern Germany (R. Lampe); Late Quaternary Infill of Macrotidal Estuaries in Northern Australia (C. Woodroffe); ENVIRONMENTS AND PROCESSES; Hydraulic Processes Affecting the Morphology and Evolution of the Westerschelde Estuary (J. van den Berg, et al.); The Role of Seagrasses in Nearshore Sedimentary Processes: a Review (M. Fonseca); Ecological Dynamics of a Tropical Intertidal Mudflat Community (J. Vargas); HUMAN ALTERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT; Management and Use of Dynamic Estuarine Shorelines (J. Doody); Natural and Legal Shoreline Buffers (J. Phillips); Index.

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