An Overview of Egyptian Northern Coastal lakes -- Land use in Egyptian coastal lakes: opportunities and challenges -- Adaptive Management Zones of Egypt’s Lakes and Depressions -- Sediments Contaminations in Egypt’s Northern Coastal Lakes -- Chemical and Physical properties of Egyptian shallow coastal lake -- Lake El-Manzala Characteristics and Main Challenges -- Phytoplankton Ecology along…
This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of the much acclaimed Encyclopedia of Coastal Science edited by M. Schwarz (Springer 2005), presents an interdisciplinary approach that includes biology, ecology, engineering, geology, geomorphology, oceanography, remote sensing, technological advances, and anthropogenic impacts on coasts. Within its covers the Encyclopedia of Coastal Science, 2nd ed…
"I know of no similar work (in scope, content and orientation). That is why we are all waiting so anxiously for this volume to be completed. Its perspective is unique." Charles Finkl, Editor to the Journal of Coastal Research.
1. An introduction to the research on Mediterranean cold-water corals -- PART I – Past -- 2. Paleoecology of Mediterranean cold-water corals -- 3. Drop chapter. Cold water corals in the Mediterranean: a history of discovery -- 4. A turbulent story: Mediterranean contourites and cold-water corals -- 5. Drop chapter. Messinian salinity crisis: what happened to cold-water corals? -- 6. Drop chap…
Introduction to oceanographic and biological aspects of the Red Sea -- The tides of the Red Sea -- Physical and chemical properties of seawater in the Gulf of Aqaba and Red Sea -- Sources of organic tracers in atmospheric dust, surface seawater particulate matter and sediment of the Red Sea -- Nitrogen, phosphorus and organic carbon in the Saudi Arabian Red Sea coastal waters: Behaviour and hum…
Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Satluj Floodplain: A Landscape -- Chapter 2 -- Satluj Floodplain: Patterns of Landscape Transformation -- Chapter 3 -- Satluj Floodplain: A Hazardscape -- Chapter4 -- Satluj Floodplain: A Possible Green Habitat.This book explains the tragic tale of the Satluj floodplain since its inception. As a landscape this floodplain entity evolves and sets a niche to distinctiv…
The Asian Marginal and Enclosed Seas: an Overview -- A Historical Overview of Remote Sensing of the Asian Seas -- An Introduction to Optical Remote Sensing of the Asian Seas: Chinese dedicated satellites and data processing techniques -- An Introduction to Microwave Remote Sensing of the Asian Seas -- Sea-ice parameters from satellite remote sensing -- Ocean Colour Remote Sensing in the Laptev …
1. Introduction -- Part 1: Carbon stock and flow at ecosystem scale – Carbon Storage -- 2. Backgrounds, Theory, Methods, and Seagrass case -- 3. Mangrove case -- 4. Seaweed case -- Part 2: Carbon stock and flow at ecosystem scale – Gas exchange -- 5. Backgrounds, Theory, Methods, and Seagrass case -- 6. Mangrove case -- 7. Tidal marsh case -- 8. Tidal flat case -- Part 3: Carbon stock and f…
Part I: Introduction -- 1. Mesophotic coral ecosystems: Introduction and Overview -- Part II: Regional Variation in Mesophotic Corarl Ecosystems -- 2. Bermuda -- 3. The Bahamas and Cayman Islands -- 4. Pulley Ridge, Gulf of Mexico, U.S.A. -- 5. The Mesoamerican Reef -- 6. Discovery Bay, Jamaica -- 7. Puerto Rico -- 8. The United States Virgin Islands -- 9. Bonaire and Curaçao -- 10. Brazil -- …
1. The Red Sea: Environmental gradients shape a natural laboratory in a nascent ocean -- 2. Environmental Setting for Reef Building in the Red Sea -- 3. Ecophysiology of reef-building corals in the Red Sea -- 4. Microbial Communities of Red Sea Coral Reefs -- 5. Symbiodinium diversity in Red Sea coral reefs & coral bleaching -- 6. Sponges of the Red Sea -- 7. Corals of the Red Sea. - 8. Fishes …