Muddy Coast Dynamics and Resource Management (eBook)

Cover 1
Preface 6
Contents 8
Contributors 12
Section 1: Hydrodynamics and suspended particulate matter in bays and back-barrier tidal basins 16
Chapter 1. Hydrodynamics of Chwaka Bay, a shallow mangrove-fringed tropical embayment, Tanzania 18
Chapter 2. Tidal characteristics of an accretional tidal flat (The Wash, U.K.) 28
Chapter 3. Quantifying concentration and flux of suspended particulate matter through a tidal inlet of the East Frisian Wadden Sea by acoustic doppler current profiling 54
Section 2: Erosion, deposition, and sediment budgets of tidal flats 68
Chapter 4. Surface erosion of fine-grained sediment revisited 70
Chapter 5. Comparison of the erosion shear stress of oxic and anoxic sediments in the East Frisian Wadden Sea 90
Chapter 6. Mass balancing the seasonal turnover of mud and sand in the vicinity of an intertidal mussel bank in the Wadden Sea (southern North Sea) 100
Chapter 7. Mass balancing the seasonal turnover of POC in mud and sand on a back-barrier tidal flat (southern North Sea) 122
Section 3: Primary production, nutrient fluxes and mineralisation in shallow coastal lagoons (Bodden) of the Baltic Sea 140
Chapter 8. Significance of microphytobenthic primary production in the Bodden (southern Baltic Sea) 142
Chapter 9. Bodden waters (southern Baltic Sea) as a source of methane and nitrous oxide 152
Chapter 10. Geochemical investigations of iron and manganese in coastal sediments of the southern Baltic Sea 164
Chapter 11. Phosphorus in sediments from coastal waters of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (southern Baltic Sea) 176
Chapter 12. Benthic microbial decomposition of organic matter and nutrient fluxes at the sediment-water interface in a shallow coastal inlet of the southern Baltic Sea (Nordrügensche Bodden) 190
Chapter 13. Significance of aerobic and anaerobic mineralization processes of organic carbon in sediments of a shallow coastal inlet in the southern Baltic Sea 200
Section 4: Sediment geochemistry in salt-marshes and Holocene deposits 210
Chapter 14. Effects of plant roots on salt-marsh sediment geochemistry 212
Chapter 15. Elemental composition of siderite grains in early Holocene deposits of Youngjong Island (west coast of Korea), and its palaeoenvironmental implications 220
Section 5: Sea-level rise, land reclamation, and resource management 234
Chapter 16. The impacts of sea-level rise on the coastal fisheries resources and aquatic ecosystems of Cameroon (Central Africa) 236
Chapter 17. Impacts of sea-level rise and human activities on the evolution of the Pearl River delta, South China 252
Chapter 18.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 mouth 262
Chapter 19. The missing mud flats of the Wadden Sea: a reconstruction of sediments and accommodation space lost in the wake of land reclamation 272
Chapter 20. The Wadden Sea squeeze as a cause of decreasing sedimentary organic loading 288
Chapter 21. The utilization of coastal tidal flats: a case-study on Integrated Coastal Area Management from China 302