Ecosystems at the Land-Sea Margin: Drainage Basin to Coastal Sea
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About The ProductPublished by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Coastal and Estuarine Studies Series. Nutrient and contaminant inputs to estuaries and coastal seas, the exploitation of living resources, translocation of nonindigenous species, and habitat loss or modification are among the most significant and sustained anthropogenic alterations of coastal ecosystems. Although the chapters that follow touch on all of these issues, the causes and consequences of nutrient enrichment are emphasized. Nutrient enrichment of estuaries and coastal seas has increased dramatically in recent decades, largely as a consequence of the combustion of fossil fuels and land?]use patterns in coastal watersheds related to increases in population density and agriculture. How these changes and the compounding effects of meteorological events and local?]regional expressions of global climate change will play out in terms of ecosystem dynamics are important questions that will drive research and monitoring in the coastal zone for decades to come. Content: Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1–6): Nenad Smodlaka, Thomas C. Malone, Alenka Malej and Lawrence W. Harding Chapter 2 The Chesapeake Bay and Northern Adriatic Sea Drainage Basins: Land?Cover and Nutrient Export (pages 7–27): Steven W. Seagle, Romano Pagnotta and Ford A. Cross Chapter 3 Shallow Water and Shoreline Ecosystems of the Chesapeake Bay Compared to the Northern Adriatic Sea: Transformation of Habitat at the Land?Sea Margin (pages 29–79): J. Court Stevenson, Janez I. Marusic, Bartolo Ozretic, Anna Marson, Giovanni Cecconii and Michael S. Kearney Chapter 4 The Inland Sea: Circulation of Chesapeake Bay and the Northern Adriatic (pages 81–129): W. C. Boicourt, M. Kuzmic and T. S. Hopkins Chapter 5 Production and Fate of Phytoplankton: Annual Cycles and Interannual Variability (pages 131–172): Lawrence W. Harding, Danilo Degobbis and Robert Precali Chapter 6 Dinoflagellate Blooms and Mucilage Production (pages 173–206): Kevin G. Sellner and Serena Fonda?Umani Chapter 7 Distributions and Trophic Implications of Microzooplankton (pages 207–239): D. Wayne Coats and Noelia Revelante Chapter 8 Potential Links of Jellyfish to Eutrophication and Fisheries (pages 241–263): Jennifer E. Purcell, Alenka Malej and Adam Benovic Chapter 9 Macrobenthic Communities and Eutrophication (pages 265–293): Roger I. E. Newell and Jorg A. Ott Chapter 10 Pelagic?Benthic Coupling and Nutrient Cycling (pages 295–339): W. M. Kemp, J. Faganeli, S. Puskaric, E. M. Smith and W. R. Boynton Chapter 11 Fisheries: Trends in Catches, Abundance and Management (pages 341–366): E. D. Houde, S. Jukic Peladic, S. B. Brandt and S. D. Leach Chapter 12 Summary and Conclusions (pages 367–377): Alenka Malej, Lawrence W. Harding, Nenad Smodlaka and Thomas C. Malone
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