Challenges in Estuarine and Coastal Science

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Estuarine and coastal waters are acknowledged centres for anthropogenic impacts. Superimposed on the complex natural interactions between land, rivers and sea are the myriad consequences of human activity – a spectrum ranging from locally polluting effluents to some of the severest consequences of global climate change. For practitioners, academics and students in the field of coastal science and policy, this timely book examines and exemplifies current and future challenges: from upper estuaries to open coasts and adjacent seas; from tropical to temperate latitudes; from Europe to Australia.

This authoritative volume marks the 50th anniversary of the Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Association. Drawing on the expertise of more than 60 specialist contributors, individual chapters address coastal erosion and deposition; open shores to estuaries and deltas; marine plastics; coastal squeeze and habitat loss; tidal freshwaters – saline incursion and estuarine squeeze; restoration management using remote data collection; carbon storage; species distribution and non-natives; shorebirds; Modelling environmental change; physical processes such as sediments and modelling; sea level rise and estuarine tidal dynamics; estuaries as fish nurseries; policy versus reality in coastal conservation; developments in estuarine, coastal and marine management. In addition to providing an overview of current scientific understanding, the material gathered

here offers a clear-eyed perspective on what needs to be done to protect these fragile – and vital – ecosystems.

Preface

John Humphreys and Sally Little

Prologue

Richard S.K. Barnes

Foreword: The Origins and History of the Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Association

Martin Wilkinson and Donald McLusky

1. Morphodynamics of Tropical Atlantic River Mouths and their Adjacent Shorelines

Helene Burningham, Silvia Palotti Polizel and Awa Bousso Dramé

2. Coastal Erosion and Management Challenges in the United Kingdom

Kenneth Pye and Simon J. Blott

3. Challenges of Sea-level Rise on Estuarine Tidal Dynamics

Danial Khojasteh, Jamie Ruprecht, Katrina Waddington, Hamed Moftakhari, Amir AghaKouchak and William Glamore

4. Estimating the Residence Time in Estuaries: Methods and Application

Paula Birocchi, Juliana Correa Neiva Ferreira and Marcelo Dottori

5. Coastal and Estuarine Physical Processes: Looking Back, Looking Forwards

Steven B. Mitchell and Reginald J. Uncles

6. Marine Plastics: Emerging Challenges and Priorities for Estuaries and Coasts

Anthony W. Gallagher, Malcolm D. Hudson, Oliver T. Brooks and Jessica L. Stead

7. Estuarine Tidal Freshwater Zones in a Changing Climate: Meeting the Challenge of Saline Incursion and Estuarine Squeeze

Sally Little, Jonathan P. Lewis, Helen Pietkiewicz and Krysia Mazik

8. Defining Habitat Losses due to Coastal Squeeze

Nigel Pontee, James A. Tempest, Kenneth Pye and Simon J. Blott

9. Carbon Storage in UK Intertidal Environments

William E.N. Austin, Craig Smeaton, Paulina Ruranska, David M. Paterson, Martin W. Skov, Cai J.T. Ladd, Lucy McMahon, Glenn M. Havelock, Roland Gehrels, Rob Mills, Natasha L.M. Barlow, Annette Burden, Laurence Jones and Angus Garbutt

10. Created Coastal Wetlands as Carbon Stores: Potential Challenges and Opportunities

Hannah L. Mossman, Martin J.P. Sullivan, Rachel M. Dunk, Stuart Rae, Robert Sparkes, James Tempest and Nigel Pontee

11. Coastal Habitat Restoration, Invasive Species and Remote Monitoring Solutions

Sophie Walker, Nathan Waltham, Christina Buelow and Jordan Iles

12. Multi-decadal Responses of Coastal Ecosystems to Climate Change, Pollution and Non-indigenous Species in the Western and Mid-English Channel

Roger J.H. Herbert, Guillaume Corbeau, Laurent Godet, Nicolas Desroy, Nova Mieszkowska, Louise B. Firth, Alice E. Hall and Stephen J. Hawkins

13. Predicting the Effect of Environmental Change on Non-breeding Shorebirds with Individual-based Modelling

John D. Goss-Custard and Richard A. Stillman

14. The Role of Estuaries and Coastal Areas as Nurseries for Fish: Concepts, Methodological Challenges and Future Perspectives

Henrique Cabral

15. Marine Conservation: Smoke and Mirrors in the Coastal Zone

John Humphreys

16. Lessons from the Past Half-Century: Challenges, Opportunities and Priorities for Future Estuarine, Coastal and Marine Management

Michael Elliott and Alan Whitfield

Conclusions

Trajectories and Challenges in Estuarine and Coastal Science

John Humphreys and Sally Little

Index

Sujets

• Sciences de la nature
• Biologie marine
• Science de la Terre
• Zoologie
• Science
• 454 Life Sciences
• Marine Biology
• Mammal
• Zoology
• Oceanography
• Coastlines
• Biology
• Geography
• Earth science
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• Sciences et techniques
• Mammals
• Earth Sciences
• Life Sciences

Informations

• Publié par: Pelagic Publishing
• Date de parution: 07 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781784272869
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 20 Mo

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Challenges in Estuarine and Coastal Science
Challenges in Estuarine and Coastal Science Challenges in Estuarine and Coastal Science
Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Association 50th Anniversary Volume
edited by John Humphreys and Sally Little

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First published in 2022 by Pelagic Publishing PO Box 874 Exeter, EX3 9BR UK
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Challenges in Estuarine and Coastal Science: Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Association 50th Anniversary Volume
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Cover image: Lismore Lighthouse on Eilean Musdile in the Inner Hebrides off the west coast of mainland Scotland, taken from the Sound of Mull. © Sally Little
Contents
Contributors
Preface
John Humphreys and Sally Little
Prologue
Richard S.K. Barnes
Foreword: The Origins and History of the Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Association
Martin Wilkinson and Donald McLusky
1 Morphodynamics of Tropical Atlantic River Mouths and their Adjacent Shorelines
Helene Burningham, Silvia Palotti Polizel and Awa Bousso Dramé
2 Coastal Erosion and Management Challenges in the United Kingdom
Kenneth Pye and Simon J. Blott
3 Challenges of Sea-level Rise on Estuarine Tidal Dynamics
Danial Khojasteh, Jamie Ruprecht, Katrina Waddington, Hamed Moftakhari, Amir AghaKouchak and William Glamore
4 Estimating the Residence Time in Estuaries: Methods and Application
Paula Birocchi, Juliana Correa Neiva Ferreira and Marcelo Dottori
5 Coastal and Estuarine Physical Processes: Looking Back, Looking Forwards
Steven B. Mitchell and Reginald J. Uncles
6 Marine Plastics: Emerging Challenges and Priorities for Estuaries and Coasts
Anthony W. Gallagher, Malcolm D. Hudson, Oliver T. Brooks and Jessica L. Stead
7 Estuarine Tidal Freshwater Zones in a Changing Climate: Meeting the Challenge of Saline Incursion and Estuarine Squeeze
Sally Little, Jonathan P. Lewis, Helen Pietkiewicz and Krysia Mazik
8 Defining Habitat Losses due to Coastal Squeeze
Nigel Pontee, James A. Tempest, Kenneth Pye and Simon J. Blott
9 Carbon Storage in UK Intertidal Environments
William E.N. Austin, Craig Smeaton, Paulina Ruranska, David M. Paterson, Martin W. Skov, Cai J.T. Ladd, Lucy McMahon, Glenn M. Havelock, Roland Gehrels, Rob Mills, Natasha L.M. Barlow, Annette Burden, Laurence Jones and Angus Garbutt
10 Created Coastal Wetlands as Carbon Stores: Potential Challenges and Opportunities
Hannah L. Mossman, Martin J.P. Sullivan, Rachel M. Dunk, Stuart Rae, Robert Sparkes, James Tempest and Nigel Pontee
11 Coastal Habitat Restoration, Invasive Species and Remote Monitoring Solutions
Sophie Walker, Nathan Waltham, Christina Buelow and Jordan Iles
12 Multi-decadal Responses of Coastal Ecosystems to Climate Change, Pollution and Non-indigenous Species in the Western and Mid-English Channel
Roger J.H. Herbert, Guillaume Corbeau, Laurent Godet, Nicolas Desroy, Nova Mieszkowska, Louise B. Firth, Alice E. Hall and Stephen J. Hawkins
13 Predicting the Effect of Environmental Change on Non-breeding Shorebirds with Individual-based Modelling
John D. Goss-Custard and Richard A. Stillman
14 The Role of Estuaries and Coastal Areas as Nurseries for Fish: Concepts, Methodological Challenges and Future Perspectives
Henrique Cabral
15 Marine Conservation: Smoke and Mirrors in the Coastal Zone
John Humphreys
16 Lessons from the Past Half-Century: Challenges, Opportunities and Priorities for Future Estuarine, Coastal and Marine Management
Michael Elliott and Alan Whitfield
Conclusions Trajectories and Challenges in Estuarine and Coastal Science
John Humphreys and Sally Little
Index
Contributors
Amir AghaKouchak is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. His research crosses the boundaries between hydrology, climatology, statistics and remote sensing to address global water resource issues. He utilises satellite data and ground-based observations to develop integrated drought, flood and landslide modelling systems.
William Austin is a Professor at the Scottish Oceans Institute, University of St Andrews, and Chairs the Scottish Government’s Blue Carbon Forum. His research spans marine environments, with a particular focus in recent times on blue carbon as a nature-based solution for climate change, people and biodiversity.
Natasha Barlow is Associate Professor of Quaternary Environmental Change at the University of Leeds. Her research focuses on how landscapes respond to changing climate and sea level. She utilises core material and proxy-based methods, alongside geophysical techniques, to better understand past and future ice-sheet melt, sea-level rise, sediment mobility and carbon storage.
Richard Barnes was a zoology undergraduate at University College London (1962–65) and a postgraduate at the University of Queensland (1965–67), before becoming a SERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. After a spell at an industrial laboratory on Southampton Water (looking at the effect of hot water discharges), he became what is now termed an Assistant Professor in the Cambridge Zoology Department in 1972 and in one way or another has been in Cambridge ever since. He currently researches the macroecology of seagrass faunas, mainly via honorary positions at Rhodes University (South Africa) and back at the University of Queensland.
Paula Birocchi holds an MSc in Physical Oceanography and is a PhD student at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She studies physical oceanographic processes, including the hydrodynamic conditions of coastal areas and the continental shelf, with a focus on the dispersion of pollutants and biophysical interactions.
Simon Blott is a geomorphologist and sedimentologist with over 20 years’ experience in research and consultancy relating to coastal, estuarine and shallow marine environments. He is a Principal Consultant at Kenneth Pye Associates Ltd, having previously studied at Reading University and Royal Holloway University of London.
Oliver Brooks is an aquatic ecological consultant with a background in marine biology, conservation and marine microplastic research.
Christina Buelow is an ecologist whose research focuses on monitoring and evaluating coastal wetland health at local, regional and global scales. She endeavours to provide managers and policy-makers with information to effectively conserve these ecosystems and the valuable services that they provide.
Annette Burden is a wetland biogeochemist at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, researching effects of land management and land-use change on carbon storage and pathways in saltmarsh and peatlands. She has a particular focus on restoration of habitat and greenhouse gas emissions, using field experimentation and long-term national-scale monitoring to quantify relationships between ecosystem function and potential climate change mitigation.
Helene Burningham is Professor of Physical Geography at University College London. She is a coastal scientist specialising in the geomorphology and dynamics of shorelines and coastal landforms, and the assessment of forcing of coastal change over different timescales within the Anthropocene.
Henrique Cabral is a Senior Researcher in marine and estuarine ecology at INRAE, in France. He is the director of a research unit dedicated to the study of global change and aquatic ecosystems. Previously, he was a professor at the Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal (1997–2018), and the director of two research centres: MARE (2015–17) and the Centre of Oceanography (2012–14). He has taught courses at several universities worldwide, and supervised more than 80 MSc and 30 PhD students. He has authored or co-authored more than 320 articles in international scientific journals.
Guillaume Corbeau began his biogeography PhD at the University of Nantes (France) in 2020. He works with a geohistorical approach to the connection between human activities and benthic biodiversity in the western English Channel. Using a unique benthic fauna dataset from the Normanno-Breton Gulf, he studies the changes of community composition over the last two centuries and particularly their link with shellfish farming.
Nicolas Desroy is a marine ecologist at Ifremer, Laboratoire Environnement et Ressources Bretagne nord in France.
Marcelo Dottori graduated in physics (Bachelor’s degree from IF-USP), holds a Master’s degree in physical oceanography from the University of Sao Paulo and a PhD in oceanography from Florida State University. His research has an emphasis on fluid dynamics, working mainly on physical–biological interactions, low-frequency variability, Rossby waves and continental shelf dynamics.
Awa Bousso Dramé is a research student in Geography at University College London, where she is undertaking a PhD on the relative roles of estuarine dynamics, anthropogenic intervention and geopolitical context on the dynamics of cross-border coastal systems in West Africa.
Rachel Dunk is a Principal Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has over 20 years’ experience researching