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Journal articles on the topic "Estuarine ecology"

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Kirby-Smith, William W., and Robert R. Stickney. "Estuarine Ecology." Ecology 66, no. 6 (December 1985): 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2937398.

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Kirby-Smith, William W. "Estuarine Ecology." Ecology 66, no. 6 (December 1985): 1987–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2937399.

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Kirby-Smith, William W. "Estuarine Ecology." Ecology 66, no. 6 (December 1985): 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2937397a.

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Baugh, Thomas M., J. W. Day, C. A. S. Hall, W. M. Kemp, A. Yáñez-Arancibia, and A. Yanez-Arancibia. "Estuarine Ecology." Estuaries 13, no. 1 (March 1990): 112. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1351438.

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Maitland, Peter S. "Estuarine ecology." Biological Conservation 56, no. 2 (1991): 242–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0006-3207(91)90021-z.

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Whitfield, Alan K. "Estuarine ecology." Marine Biology Research 9, no. 8 (October 2013): 815–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2013.789913.

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Guterstam, Björn. "Estuarine ecology." Ecological Economics 3, no. 2 (July 1991): 169–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0921-8009(91)90019-b.

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Boerner, Ralph E. J. "African Estuarine Ecology." Landscape Ecology 29, no. 4 (March 12, 2014): 761–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10980-014-0005-3.

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Bernardino, Angelo Fraga, Paulo Roberto Pagliosa, Ronaldo Adriano Christofoletti, Francisco Barros, Sergio A. Netto, Pablo Muniz, and Paulo da Cunha Lana. "Benthic estuarine communities in Brazil: moving forward to long term studies to assess climate change impacts." Brazilian Journal of Oceanography 64, spe2 (2016): 81–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1679-875920160849064sp2.

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Abstract Estuaries are unique coastal ecosystems that sustain and provide essential ecological services for mankind. Estuarine ecosystems include a variety of habitats with their own sediment-fauna dynamics, all of them globally undergoing alteration or threatened by human activities. Mangrove forests, saltmarshes, tidal flats and other confined estuarine systems are under increasing stress due to human activities leading to habitat and species loss. Combined changes in estuarine hydromorphology and in climate pose severe threats to estuarine ecosystems on a global scale. The ReBentos network

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Gallop, Shari L., Karin R. Bryan, David P. Hamilton, Melissa Foley, and John L. Largier. "ECOENGINEERING FRESHWATER FLOWS FOR ESTUARY HYDROLOGICAL STATE." Coastal Engineering Proceedings, no. 37 (September 1, 2023): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.9753/icce.v37.management.17.

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The quantity, quality and timing of freshwater inflow into estuaries is critical to support estuarine ecosystem health. However, most estuaries are affected by upstream manipulation of freshwater inflows. Coinciding with the United Nations Decade of Restoration (2021–2030), there is great interest in re-creating functional estuarine ecosystems, including by modifying the physio-chemical characteristics with the premise that a functional ecosystem will follow (ecoengineering). To restore estuarine ecology, the physical processes of the system must first be conductive to supporting the re-establ

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Estuarine ecology"

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Winget, Danielle Marie. "The ecology and diversity of estuarine virioplankton." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 303 p, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1617912801&sid=7&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Kaselowski, Tanja. "Physico-chemical and microalgal characteristics of the Goukamma Estuary." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1011130.

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Estuaries are intrinsically complex and dynamic ecosystems that display marked spatial and temporal variability. Because estuaries are situated at the receiving end of catchment activities, they are at particular risk of alterations to their natural complexity. The overarching objective of this study was to gain an overview of the abiotic conditions and biotic response of the Goukamma Estuary, a small temporarily open/closed estuary (TOCE) which is situated in a relatively undisturbed catchment in the Southern Cape. Physico-chemical properties drive estuarine ecology, and together with biologi

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Moore, Stephanie Kay School of Biological Earth &amp Environmental Sciences UNSW. "Tracers and indicators of estuarine nutrients." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/21993.

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Three novel methods were examined to assess the effects of nutrient enrichment in three sub-tropical east Australian estuaries with differing levels of catchment disturbance. The Manning and Wallamba River catchments are 8927 and 500 km2 respectively and support intensive livestock agriculture and some residential development, whereas the smaller Wallingat River catchment is 185 km2 and is mostly forested. The Wallamba and Wallingat Rivers flow into Wallis Lake, which was the site of an environmental crisis in 1997 when the consumption of sewage-contaminated locally grown oysters caused an out

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Chuwen, Benjamin Michael. "Characteristics of the ichthyofaunas of offshore waters in different types of estuary in Western Australia, including the biology of black bream Acanthopagrus butcheri /." Murdoch University Digital Theses Program, 2009. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20100210.154423.

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Quinnell, Susan Elizabeth. "Estuarine Canaries: Macrobenthos Measures Pollution when Chemical Tests Cannot." Thesis, Griffith University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366573.

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Bramble Bay, an estuary with a long history of contamination, appears to have crossed multiple tipping points into a state of unstable biomass dominated by opportunistic species. In early 1996 mass mortality events began to affect the bay’s macrobenthic community within a few days of modest rainfall (30 mm) over the catchments. The numbers of wading birds and fish using the beach at such times greatly declined. Between mortality events the macrobenthos staged partial recoveries. However, 10 years later the beach had not attained the diversity of species it supported prior to 1996. Also, the ri

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Helton, Rebekah R. "Ecology of benthic viruses in marine and estuarine environments." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 214 p, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1362525081&sid=14&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Wood, Tamara Michelle. "Numerical modeling of estuarine geochemistry /." Full text open access at:, 1993. http://content.ohsu.edu/u?/etd,240.

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Fruchter, Jesse. "DO LARGE, INFREQUENT DISTURBANCES RELEASE ESTUARINE WETLANDS FROM COASTAL SQUEEZING?" OpenSIUC, 2012. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/923.

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As disturbance frequencies, intensities, and types have changed and continue to change in response to changing climate and land-use patterns, coastal communities undergo shifts in both species composition and dominant vegetation type. Over the past 100 years, fire suppression throughout the Northern Gulf of Mexico coast has resulted in shifts towards woody species dominance at the expense of marsh cover. Over the next 100 years, sea levels will rise and tropical storm activity is projected to increase; resultant changes in salinity could reduce cover of salt-intolerant fresh marsh species. Tog

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Fritz, Alyce T. "Trophodynamics of estuarine (salt marsh) heterotrophic nanoplankton (microbial ecology, salt marsh ecology, choanoflagellates, Virginia)." W&M ScholarWorks, 1986. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539616651.

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Seasonal occurrence and activity of heterotrophic nanoflagellates (HNANO or heteroflagellates) and bacteria were studied in a sheltered brackish water embayment of Chesapeake Bay wetlands (Virginia, USA) over a three year period (1981 - 1984). Epifluorescence direct counts and Scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopy (SEM and TEM) techniques were used for the description of organisms, enumeration, and biomass determinations. Seasonal bacterial growth rates and growth and grazing rates of bactivorous HNANO were estimated using diffusion chambers equipped with Nuclepore polycarbonate membra

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Vorsatz, Jeanne Pauline. "Ecological role of estuarine brachyuran crabs in mangrove and salt marsh estuaries, Eastern Cape, South Africa." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1108.

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Crabs are conspicuous inhabitants of temperate salt marshes and tropical mangroves and interact with their environment through several processes. However, detailed information on crab community processes is absent for most South African estuaries and nearshore coastal regions. This study evaluated the primary producers supporting crab species in the salt marsh dominated Swartkops estuary and the mangrove Mngazana estuary. Various methods estimating crab abundances were also assessed in different microhabitats and the larval distribution of crabs in the coastal zone was also investigated. Vario

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Books on the topic "Estuarine ecology"

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Day, John W., Byron C. Crump, W. Michael Kemp, and Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia, eds. Estuarine Ecology. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118412787.

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1945-, Day John W., ed. Estuarine ecology. New York: Wiley, 1989.

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International Estuarine Research Conference (8th 1985 University of New Hampshire). Estuarine variability. Orlando, Fla: Academic Press, 1986.

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C, Heip, and Herman P. M. J, eds. Major biological processes in European tidal estuaries. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995.

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Safʹi︠a︡nov, G. A. Ėstuarii. Moskva: Myslʹ, 1987.

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Donovan, Michael L. National estuarine inventory: Land use and the Nation's estuaries. Rockville, Md: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 1987.

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Tillamook Bay National Estuary Project (Or.). Watershed assessment modules. Garibaldi, OR: The Project, 1998.

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T, Balasubramanian, Ajmal Khan S, Rajendran N. Dr, Raghunathan Seena, Baskara Sanjeevi S, Environmental Information System Centre (Porto Novo, India), and India. Ministry of Environment and Forests., eds. Estuaries of India: State-of-the-art-report. Parangipettai, Tamil Nadu: Environmental Information System Centre (for Estuaries, Mangroves, Coral Reefs, and Lagoons), 2002.

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Crane, Julian R. Estuaries: Types, movement patterns and climatical impacts. Hauppauge, N.Y: Nova Science Publishers, 2009.

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Safʹi͡anov, G. A. Ėstuarii. Moskva: "Myslʹ", 1987.

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Book chapters on the topic "Estuarine ecology"

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Benfield, Mark C. "Estuarine Zooplankton." In Estuarine Ecology, 285–302. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118412787.ch11.

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Wilson, James G., and John W. Fleeger. "Estuarine Benthos." In Estuarine Ecology, 303–25. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118412787.ch12.

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Cowan, James H., Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia, Patricia Sánchez-Gil, and Linda A. Deegan. "Estuarine Nekton." In Estuarine Ecology, 327–55. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118412787.ch13.

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Bianchi, Thomas S. "Estuarine Chemistry." In Estuarine Ecology, 39–83. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118412787.ch3.

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Paerl, Hans W., and Dubravko Justić. "Estuarine Phytoplankton." In Estuarine Ecology, 85–110. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118412787.ch4.

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Blum, Linda K., and Aaron L. Mills. "Estuarine Microbial Ecology." In Estuarine Ecology, 235–61. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118412787.ch9.

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Hagy, James D., and W. Michael Kemp. "Estuarine Food Webs." In Estuarine Ecology, 417–41. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118412787.ch16.

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Reyes, Enrique, Kenneth Rose, and Dubravko Justić. "Estuarine Ecological Modeling." In Estuarine Ecology, 519–36. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118412787.ch21.

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McGlathery, Karen J., Kristina Sundbäck, and Peggy Fong. "Estuarine Benthic Algae." In Estuarine Ecology, 203–34. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118412787.ch8.

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Day, John W., Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia, W. Michael Kemp, and Byron C. Crump. "Introduction to Estuarine Ecology." In Estuarine Ecology, 1–18. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118412787.ch1.

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Conference papers on the topic "Estuarine ecology"

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Демиденко, Н., and N. Demidenko. "COASTAL AND ESTUARINE SEDIMENT DYNAMICS IN THE MEZEN BAY AND ESTUARIES MEZEN AND KULOY." In Sea Coasts – Evolution ecology, economy. Academus Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.31519/conferencearticle_5b5ce39a80e646.57291683.

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In the Mezen bay and estuaries Mezen and Kuloy can be high concentrations of mud suspension there, involving the formation at times mobile suspensions and settled mud. Within estuaries the river water is mixed with the sea water by the action of tidal motions, by waves on the sea surface and by the river discharge forcing its way to the sea. Nearly all shallow tidal estuaries, where currents exceed about 1,0m s-1 and where sand is present, have sand waves. Sand waves have a variety of cross-sectional and plan forms.

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Кремез, В., V. Kremez, В. Островерх, and V. Ostroverh. "ON THE METHODS OF ESTUARINE AND COASTAL MORPHODYNAMICS WITH NUMERICAL AND GEOINFORMATICAL SYSTEMS." In Sea Coasts – Evolution ecology, economy. Academus Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.31519/conferencearticle_5b5ce3cca6d662.10106976.

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The questions on kinematics and morphodynamics of estuarine zones assessment are considered with help of numerical and GIS methods for natural and construction systems monitoring. The monitoring is fulfilled on the basis of the time-spatial database for estuarine part of Danube to Black Sea navigational canal trough the Bystry branch of Cilia delta. To the database we include not only river and reservoir shores and depth but the constantly acting hydrometeorogical parameters as well. The database is used for river and canal navigation analysis, coastal line and fairway stability.As a result we

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Luczkovich, Joseph, Mark Sprague, Cecila S. Krahforst, John Walsh, and Dean Carpenter. "Acoustics and estuarine ecology: using active and passive methods to survey the physical environment, vegetation and animals in North Carolina's coastal estuaries." In ICA 2013 Montreal. ASA, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4799135.

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Айбулатов, Д., D. Aybulatov, Р. Казюлин, and R. Kazyulin. "THE PECULIARITIES OF WATER RUNOFF AND SEDIMENT YEILD IN THE MOUTH OF THE RIVERS OF BOLSHOI SOCHI DISTRICT." In Sea Coasts – Evolution ecology, economy. Academus Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.31519/conferencearticle_5b5ce37a295261.75393256.

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Estuaries of the rivers in Bolshoi Sochi district are the most densely populated areas of the Black Sea coastline area in Russian Federation. Study of water runoff and sediment yield in the mouth of the rivers has an important role in applied science, because the frequency of dangerous hydrological processes is very high. Floods and lateral rivers erosion can leads to catastrophic emergencies. Analysis of hydrological data and physiographic properties of the region help to make several conclusions about water runoff and sediment yield of the region rivers: average annual water and sedime

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Кофф, Г., G. Koff, И. Чеснокова, I. Chesnokova, О. Борсукова, O. Borsukova, О. Павленко, and O. Pavlenko. "SEISMOLOGICAL, AND GEOMORPHIC HYDROGRAPHIC TSUNAMI RISK FACTORS FOR FAR EAST COAST OF RUSSIA." In Sea Coasts – Evolution ecology, economy. Academus Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.31519/conferencearticle_5b5ce3bc81a130.53815843.

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The problems of formation of the risk of a tsunami on the coast of the southern regions of the Far East Federal District. As the risk factors used features such as the relative position of the epicenters of tsunamigenic earthquakes and the coast, the underwater terrain coast, the degree of closeness of the studied bays, the presence or absence of wide beach and the first marine terraces, flowing into the characteristics of the studied coast estuaries. The factors subjected to expert estimates, taking into account their influence on the formation of the risk of a tsunami. The characteristics of

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Dean, K. Bruce, Femi Ade, Les Sawatsky, R. Gray, John Cutler, and Neil Wheeler. "Remedial Protection of a Pipeline Crossing of the River Wye, UK." In 2000 3rd International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2000-149.

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This project is of interest to those involved in construction, siting and repair of pipeline crossings of rivers, streams and estuaries. In early 1999, Mainline Pipelines Limited discovered that their pipeline crossing of the River Wye had been exposed by river scour. Originally laid in 1972, the line provides petroleum products main supply from the port at Milford Haven to the Midlands, England, and operates at a high pressure. A break in or temporary shutdown of the pipeline would have had serious implications. Remedial protection options were needed rapidly, to ensure the integrity of the p

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de Goede, Erik, Tim Wagner, Reimer de Graaff, and Ben Sheets. "Modelling of Ice Growth and Transport on a Regional Scale, With Application to Fountain Lake, Minnesota, USA." In ASME 2014 33rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2014-24002.

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Numerical modelling of ice growth and transport on regional scales such as lakes, estuaries, or coastal seas can provide crucial input for the planning and design of offshore structures in arctic, sub-arctic, or even mid-latitude regions. It is in these regions that the total loading of ice on infrastructure such as platforms, sea defense structures, sub-sea pipelines, or wind turbines may exceed the total loading of waves and currents, and may therefore determine the design. Thus, the interaction of ice with planned structures might be significant, and accurate models of ice dynamics would be

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Schindler, Rob, Sean Comber, and Andrew Manning. "METAL POLLUTANT PATHWAYS IN COHESIVE COASTAL CATCHMENTS: INFLUENCE OF FLOCCULATION ON PARTITIONING AND FLUX." In GEOLINKS International Conference. SAIMA Consult Ltd, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.32008/geolinks2020/b2/v2/09.

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Potentially toxic metals (PTMs) dispersed within catchments from land-based sources pose serious, long-term threats to aquatic ecology and human health. Their chemical state or form affects the potential for transportation and bioavailability and ultimate environmental fate. PTMs are transported either as (1) particulates adsorbed onto sediments, or 2) solutes in groundwater and open channel flow. Cohesive sediment occupies a major part of the world’s coastlines. PTMs are readily sorbed onto clay/silt and consequently particulate-borne PTMs dominate in estuaries and coastal waters. Sediments a

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Reports on the topic "Estuarine ecology"

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Ray, Gary L. Invasive Animal Species in Marine and Estuarine Environments: Biology and Ecology. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, January 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada430308.

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Gangstad, E. O. The Ecology and Environmental Impact of Marshland and Estuaries. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, December 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada268883.

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