Estuarine Ecology (eBook)

John W. Day, Jr. is a Distinguished Professor in the Dept. of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences and the Coastal Ecology Institute at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Byron C. Crump is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, Maryland W. Michael Kemp is a Professor at Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Baltimore Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia is a Research Scientist and Full Professor as well as Head of the Program of Coastal Resources at the Instituto de Ecología, A.C. (INECOL), Mexico

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xi

Contributors xiii

Chapter One Introduction to Estuarine Ecology 1
John W. Day Jr., Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia, W. Michael Kemp, and Byron C. Crump

Chapter Two Estuarine Geomorphology and Coastal Hydrology 19
Gregg A. Snedden, Jaye E. Cable, and Björn Kjerfve

Chapter Three Estuarine Chemistry 39
Thomas S. Bianchi

Chapter Four Estuarine Phytoplankton 85
Hans W. Paerl and Dubravko Justic

Chapter Five Seagrass and Related Submersed Vascular Plants 111
Jens Borum, Renee K. Gruber, and W. Michael Kemp

Chapter Six Coastal Marshes 129
Carles Ibáñez, James T. Morris, Irving A. Mendelssohn, and John W. Day Jr.

Chapter Seven Mangrove Wetlands 165
Robert R. Twilley and John W. Day Jr.

Chapter Eight Estuarine Benthic Algae 203
Karen J. McGlathery, Kristina Sundbck, and Peggy Fong

Chapter Nine Estuarine Microbial Ecology 235
Linda K. Blum and Aaron L. Mills

Chapter Ten Estuarine Microbial Food Webs 263
Byron C. Crump, Hugh W. Ducklow, and John E. Hobbie

Chapter Eleven Estuarine Zooplankton 285
Mark C. Benfield

Chapter Twelve Estuarine Benthos 303
James G. Wilson and John W. Fleeger

Chapter Thirteen Estuarine Nekton 327
James H. Cowan Jr., Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia, Patricia Sánchez-Gil, and Linda A. Deegan

Chapter Fourteen The Ecology of Estuarine Wildlife 357
Russell Greenberg

Chapter Fifteen Ecosystem Metabolism 381
Jeremy M. Testa, W. Michael Kemp, Charles S. Hopkinson Jr., and Stephen V. Smith

Chapter Sixteen Estuarine Food Webs 417
James D. Hagy III and W. Michael Kemp

Chapter Seventeen Budget Analyses of Estuarine Ecosystems 443
Walter R. Boynton and Scott W. Nixon

Chapter Eighteen Fisheries in Lagoon-Estuarine Ecosystems 465
Daniel Pauly and Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia

Chapter Nineteen Human Impact and Management of Coastal and Estuarine Ecosystems 483
John W. Day Jr., Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia, and W. Michael Kemp

Chapter Twenty Global Climate Change and Estuarine Systems 497
John M. Rybczyk, John W. Day Jr., Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia, and James H. Cowan Jr.

Chapter Twenty-One Estuarine Ecological Modeling 519
Enrique Reyes, Kenneth Rose, and Dubravko Justic

Index 537

"Overall, this is a worthwhile contribution. Students,
instructors, and researchers interested in estuaries will want
access to this book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division
undergraduates and above." (Choice, 1 August
2013)

"In conclusion, I have no hesitation in commending the editors
and authors of the chapters on a job well done. This treatise
clearly meets the need for an introductory text on estuarine
ecology and is a must for any aspiring or established scientist
within this field." (Marine Biology Research, 3 June
2013)