Monitoring and Assessment of Environmental Quality in Coastal Ecosystems

Coastal ecosystems are dynamic, complex, and often fragile transition environments between land and oceans. They are exclusive habitats for a broad range of living organisms, functioning as havens for biodiversity and providing several important ecological services that link terrestrial, freshwater,...

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description Coastal ecosystems are dynamic, complex, and often fragile transition environments between land and oceans. They are exclusive habitats for a broad range of living organisms, functioning as havens for biodiversity and providing several important ecological services that link terrestrial, freshwater, and marine environments. Humans living in coastal zones have been strongly dependent on these ecosystems as a source of food, physical protection against storms and advancing sea, and a range of human activities that generate economic income. Notwithstanding, the intensification of human activities in coastal areas of the recent decades, as well as the global climatic changes and coastal erosion processes of the present, have had detrimental impacts on these environments. Maintaining the structural and functional integrity of these environments and recovering an ecological balance or mitigating disturbances in systems under the influence of such stressors are complex tasks, only possible through the implementation of monitoring programs and by assessing their environmental quality. In this book, distinct approaches to environmental quality monitoring and assessment of coastal environments are presented, focused on abiotic and biotic compartments, and using tools that range from ecological levels of organization to the sub-organismal and the ecosystem levels.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-769282024-03-28T03:33:38Z Monitoring and Assessment of Environmental Quality in Coastal Ecosystems Gonçalves, Sílvia C. radioactive materials trace metals bioaccumulation marine fish crustaceans marine environmental pollution Bay of Bengal beach litter infrared thermography UAV UGV environmental monitoring coastal pollution fuzzy modelling marine sediment Takagi–Sugeno ordinary kriging (OK) inverse distance weighting (IDW) spatial predictions endocrine disruptors Mugil cephalus PFNA ecosystem services benefit transfer meta-analysis meta-regression function thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVG Environmental economics Coastal ecosystems are dynamic, complex, and often fragile transition environments between land and oceans. They are exclusive habitats for a broad range of living organisms, functioning as havens for biodiversity and providing several important ecological services that link terrestrial, freshwater, and marine environments. Humans living in coastal zones have been strongly dependent on these ecosystems as a source of food, physical protection against storms and advancing sea, and a range of human activities that generate economic income. Notwithstanding, the intensification of human activities in coastal areas of the recent decades, as well as the global climatic changes and coastal erosion processes of the present, have had detrimental impacts on these environments. Maintaining the structural and functional integrity of these environments and recovering an ecological balance or mitigating disturbances in systems under the influence of such stressors are complex tasks, only possible through the implementation of monitoring programs and by assessing their environmental quality. In this book, distinct approaches to environmental quality monitoring and assessment of coastal environments are presented, focused on abiotic and biotic compartments, and using tools that range from ecological levels of organization to the sub-organismal and the ecosystem levels. 2022-01-11T13:46:46Z 2022-01-11T13:46:46Z 2021 book ONIX_20220111_9783036522357_760 9783036522357 9783036522364 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/76928 eng image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/4519 https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/4519 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-0365-2236-4 10.3390/books978-3-0365-2236-4 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783036522357 9783036522364 90 Basel, Switzerland open access
spellingShingle radioactive materials
trace metals
bioaccumulation
marine fish
crustaceans
marine environmental pollution
Bay of Bengal
beach litter
infrared thermography
UAV
UGV
environmental monitoring
coastal pollution
fuzzy modelling
marine sediment
Takagi–Sugeno
ordinary kriging (OK)
inverse distance weighting (IDW)
spatial predictions
endocrine disruptors
Mugil cephalus
PFNA
ecosystem services
benefit transfer
meta-analysis
meta-regression function
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVG Environmental economics
Monitoring and Assessment of Environmental Quality in Coastal Ecosystems
title Monitoring and Assessment of Environmental Quality in Coastal Ecosystems
title_full Monitoring and Assessment of Environmental Quality in Coastal Ecosystems
title_fullStr Monitoring and Assessment of Environmental Quality in Coastal Ecosystems
title_full_unstemmed Monitoring and Assessment of Environmental Quality in Coastal Ecosystems
title_short Monitoring and Assessment of Environmental Quality in Coastal Ecosystems
title_sort monitoring and assessment of environmental quality in coastal ecosystems
topic radioactive materials
trace metals
bioaccumulation
marine fish
crustaceans
marine environmental pollution
Bay of Bengal
beach litter
infrared thermography
UAV
UGV
environmental monitoring
coastal pollution
fuzzy modelling
marine sediment
Takagi–Sugeno
ordinary kriging (OK)
inverse distance weighting (IDW)
spatial predictions
endocrine disruptors
Mugil cephalus
PFNA
ecosystem services
benefit transfer
meta-analysis
meta-regression function
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVG Environmental economics
topic_facet radioactive materials
trace metals
bioaccumulation
marine fish
crustaceans
marine environmental pollution
Bay of Bengal
beach litter
infrared thermography
UAV
UGV
environmental monitoring
coastal pollution
fuzzy modelling
marine sediment
Takagi–Sugeno
ordinary kriging (OK)
inverse distance weighting (IDW)
spatial predictions
endocrine disruptors
Mugil cephalus
PFNA
ecosystem services
benefit transfer
meta-analysis
meta-regression function
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVG Environmental economics
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