TY - CHAP AU - Marco V.J. Cutrim AU - Francinara S. Ferreira AU - Lisana F. Cavalcanti AU - Ana K.D.S. Sá AU - Andrea Christina Gomes de Azevedo-Cutrim AU - Ricardo Luvizotto Santos ED - Jiayi Pan ED - Adam Devlin Y1 - 2019-10-03 PY - 2019 T1 - Phytoplankton Biomass and Environmental Descriptors of Water Quality of an Urban Lagoon N2 - Estuaries and their surrounding wetland regions are among the most productive ecosystems in the world, with more than half of humanity inhabiting their shores. Anthropogenic factors make estuaries highly susceptible to ecosystem degradation. Coastal waters are closely connected with human activity, and their dynamic processes may greatly affect coastal environments. This book provides a compendium of studies on estuarine dynamics, river plumes, and coastal water dynamics, studies that have investigated the changes in estuarine and coastal zones in response to sea-level rise and other environmental factors, and policy and management strategies to ensure the health and economy of coastal zones. This book aims to display novel frontiers in these fields and may help to inspire in-depth studies in the future. BT - Estuaries and Coastal Zones SP - Ch. 7 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.87955 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.87955 SN - 978-1-78985-580-7 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-25 ER -