Coastal Wetlands: An Integrated Ecosystem Approach

Coastal wetlands are under a great deal of pressure from the dual forces of rising sea level and the intervention of human populations both along the estuary and in the river catchment. Direct impacts include the destruction or degradation of wetlands from land reclamation and infrastructures. Indirect impacts derive from the discharge of pollutants, changes in river flows and sediment supplies, land clearing, and dam operations. As sea level rises, coastal wetlands in most areas of the world migrate landward to occupy former uplands. The competition of these lands from human development is intensifying, making the landward migration impossible in many cases.

Coastal Wetlands, Second Edition provides an understanding of the functioning of coastal ecosystems and the ecological services that they provide as well as suggestions for their management.

Provides understanding of how climate change will influence coastal wetland form and functionFully updated and expanded, including new chapters on modeling, management and the impact of climate changeContains full-color figures of wetlands and estuaries in different parts of the world

1. Coastal Wetlands: A Synthesis
2. The Morphology and Development of Coastal Wetlands in the Tropics
3. Temperate Coastal Wetlands: Morphology, Sediment Processes, and Plant Communities
4. Northern Polar Coastal Wetlands: Development, Structure and Land Use
5. Salt-Marsh Eco-Geomorphological Dynamics and Hydrodynamic Circulation
6. Geomorphology of Tidal Courses and Depressions
7. Methods to Estimate Heat Balance in Coastal Wetlands
8. Hydrodynamics and Modeling of Water Flow in Coastal Wetlands
9. Mathematical Modeling of Tidal Flow over Saltmarshes and Tidal Flats with Applications to the Venice Lagoon
10. Geomorphology and Sedimentology of Tidal Flats
11. Intertidal Flats: Form and Function
12. Biogeochemical Dynamics of Coastal Tidal Flats
13. Productivity and Biogeochemical Cycling in Seagrass Ecosystems
14. Tidal Salt marshes: Sedimentology and Geomorphology
15. Ecosystem Structure of Tidal Saline Marshes
16. Salt Marsh Biogeochemistry – An Overview
17. The role of freshwater flows on salt marsh growth and development
18. Tidal Freshwater Wetlands
19. Biogeochemistry of Tidal Freshwater Wetlands
20. Biogeomorphology of mangroves
21. Biogeochemistry of mangroves
22. Ecogeomorphic Models of Nutrient Biogeochemistry for Mangrove Wetlands
23. Tidal Marsh Creation
24. Salt Marsh Restoration
25. Managed Realignment: Re-Creating Intertidal Habitats on Formerly Reclaimed Land
26. Methods and Criteria for Successful Mangrove Forest Rehabilitation
27. Evaluating Restored Tidal Freshwater Wetlands
28. The Shifting Salt Marsh–Mangrove Ecotone in Australasia and the Americas
29. The Value of Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Services
30. Blue Carbon
31. Towards a Salt Marsh Management Plan for New York City: Recommendations for Strategic Restoration and Protection
32. Living Shorelines for Coastal Resilience
33. Mangrove Management: Challenges and Guidelines