Muddy coast dynamics and resource management

Hardbound. Muddy coasts are land-sea transitional environments commonly found along low-energy shorelines which either receive large annual supplies of muddy sediments, or where unconsolidated muddy deposits are being eroded by wave action.In providing 21 case studies in different parts of the world this book provides an up-to-date review of the state of the art in muddy coast research. Issues dealing with hydrodynamics and suspended matter transport, erosion, deposition, and sediment budgets on tidal flats, primary production, nutrient fluxes and mineralization in lagoons are treated in a multi disciplinary manner. Most articles deal with issues which are of relevance with respect to global warming and future sea level rise.

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Contributors

Section 1 Hydrodynamics and suspended particulate matter in bays and back-barrier tidal basins Hydrodynamics of Chwaka Bay, a shallow mangrove-fringed tropical embayment, TanzaniaN. Nyandwi and O.U. Mwaipopo

Tidal characteristics of an accretional tidal flat (The Wash, U.K.)X. Ke., M. Collins

Quantifying concentration and flux of suspended particulate matter through a tidal inlet of the East Frisian Wadden Sea by acoustic doppler current profilingP. Santamarina Cuneo and B.W. Flemming

Section 2 Erosion, deposition, and sediment budgets of tidal flats Surface erosion of fine-grained sediment revisitedA. J. Mehta and T.M. Parchure

Comparison of the erosion shear stress of oxic and anoxic sediments in the East Frisian Wadden SeaI. Austen and G. Witte

Mass balancing the seasonal turnover of mud and sand in the vicinity of an intertidal mussel bank in the Wadden Sea (southern North Sea)A. Bartholom auml; and B.W. Flemming and M.T. Delafontaine

Mass balancing the seasonal turnover of POC in mud and sand on a back-barrier tidal flat (southern North Sea)M.T. Delafontaine and B.W. Flemming and A. Bartholom auml;

Section 3 Primary production, nutrient fluxes and mineralisation in shallow coastal lagoons (Bodden) of the Baltic Sea Significance of microphytobenthic primary production in the Bodden (southern Baltic Sea)S. Gerbersdorf and H.J. Black and J. Meyercordt and L.-A. Meyer-Reil and T. Rieling and I. Stodian

Bodden waters (southern Baltic Sea) as a source of methane and nitrous oxideS. Dahlke and C. Wolff and L.-A. Meyer-Reil and H.W. Bange and R. Ramesh and S. Rapsomanikis and M.O. Andreae

Geochemical investigations of iron and manganese in coastal sediments of the southern Baltic SeaI. Stodian and H.J. Black and S. Gerbersdorf and M. K ouml;ster and L.-A. Meyer-Reil and T. Rieling

Phosphorus in sediments from coastal waters of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (southern Baltic Sea)S. Berghoff and G. Schlungbaum and U. Selig

Benthic microbial decomposition of organic matter and nutrient fluxes at the sediment-water interface in a shallow coastal inlet of the southern Baltic Sea (Nordr uuml;gensche Bodden)T. Rieling and S. Gerbersdorf and I. Stodian and H.J. Black and S. Dahlke and M. K ouml;ster and J. Meyercordt and L.-A. Meyer-Reil

Significance of aerobic and anaerobic mineralization processes of organic carbon in sediments of a shallow coastal inlet in the southern Baltic SeaM. K ouml;ster and H.-D. Babenzien and H.J. Black and S. Dahlke and S. Gerbersdorf and J. Meyercordt and L.-A. Meyer-Reil and T. Rieling and I. Stodian and A. Voigt

Section 4 Sediment geochemistry in salt-marshes and Holocene deposits Effects of plant roots on salt-marsh sediment geochemistryM.I. Ca ccedil;ador and M.J. Madureira and C. Vale

Elemental composition of siderite grains in early Holocene deposits of Youngjong Island (west coast of Korea), and its palaeoenvironmental implicationsB.-K. Khim and K.-S. Choi and Y.A. Park

Section 5 Sea-level rise, land reclamation, and resource management The impacts of sea-level rise on the coastal fisheries resources and aquatic ecosystems of Cameroon (Central Africa)C.E. Gabche and T.J. Youmbi and C.A. Angwe

Impacts of sea-level rise and human activities on the evolution of the Pearl River delta, South ChinaM.-K. Han and L. Wu and Y.-F. Liu and N. Mimura

The combined impacts of mean sea-level rise and secular trends in mean tidal range on the marine environment in the vicinity of the Huanghe River mouthJ. Zhang and J. Wang

The missing mud flats of the Wadden Sea: a reconstruction of sediments and accommodation space lost in the wake of land reclamationS. Mai and A. Bartholom auml;

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