Coastal Wetlands - An Integrated Ecosystem Approach - Grand Format

Coastal Wetlands, Second Edition provides an understanding of the functioning of coastal environments and suggestions for their management. Provides understanding of how climate change will influence coastal wetland's form and function. Fully updated and expanded, including new chapters on modeling, management, and the impact of climate change. Contains color figures of wetlands and their ecosystem processes in different parts of the world.
Coastal wetlands are under a great deal of pressure from the dual forces of rising sea level and the intervention of human populations both along the estuary and in the river catchment. Direct impacts include the destruction or degradation of wetlands from land reclamation and infrastructures. Indirect impacts derive from the discharge of pollutants, changes in river flows and sediment supplies, land clearing, and dam operations.
As sea level rises, coastal wetlands in most areas of the world migrate landward to occupy former uplands. The competition of these lands from human development is intensifying, making the landward migration impossible in many cases. Coastal Wetlands, Second Edition provides an understanding of the functioning of coastal ecosystems and the ecological services that they provide as well as suggestions for their management.
A detailed synthesis of the state of knowledge of coastal wetlands ecohydrology is also provided. All previous edition chapters have been updated to provide an in-depth review. Several new chapters that complement and expand the characteristics of the first edition have also been added, making this an extensively useful resource for environmentalists.