LEADER 03462nam 2200673z- 450 001 9910557626403321 005 20220111 035 $a(CKB)5400000000045151 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/76928 035 $a(oapen)doab76928 035 $a(EXLCZ)995400000000045151 100 $a20202201d2021 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aMonitoring and Assessment of Environmental Quality in Coastal Ecosystems 210 $aBasel, Switzerland$cMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute$d2021 215 $a1 online resource (90 p.) 311 08$a3-0365-2235-2 311 08$a3-0365-2236-0 330 $aCoastal 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. 606 $aEnvironmental economics$2bicssc 606 $aResearch & information: general$2bicssc 610 $aBay of Bengal 610 $abeach litter 610 $abenefit transfer 610 $abioaccumulation 610 $acoastal pollution 610 $acrustaceans 610 $aecosystem services 610 $aendocrine disruptors 610 $aenvironmental monitoring 610 $afuzzy modelling 610 $ainfrared thermography 610 $ainverse distance weighting (IDW) 610 $amarine environmental pollution 610 $amarine fish 610 $amarine sediment 610 $ameta-analysis 610 $ameta-regression function 610 $aMugil cephalus 610 $aordinary kriging (OK) 610 $aPFNA 610 $aradioactive materials 610 $aspatial predictions 610 $aTakagi-Sugeno 610 $atrace metals 610 $aUAV 610 $aUGV 615 7$aEnvironmental economics 615 7$aResearch & information: general 700 $aGonçalves$b Sílvia C$4edt$01314051 702 $aGonçalves$b Sílvia C$4oth 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910557626403321 996 $aMonitoring and Assessment of Environmental Quality in Coastal Ecosystems$93031628 997 $aUNINA