Expected Effects of Climatic Change on Marine Coastal Ecosystems
J. J. Beukema, w. J. Wolff & J. J. W. M. Brouns Man is changing the biosphere at an ever increasing Netherlands ministery of Housing, Physical Planning rate. Several of these man-made changes are on a and Health (represented by Dr. G. P. Hekstra), chaired worldwide scale, such as the increase in...
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Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1990, 1990
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Edition: | 1st ed. 1990 |
Series: | Developments in Hydrobiology
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Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Expected biological effects of long-term changes in temperatures on benthic ecosystems in coastal waters around The Netherlands.
- Expected effects of changes in winter temperatures on benthic animals living in soft sediments in coastal North Sea areas.
- Effects of temperature changes on infaunal circalittoral bivalves, particularly T. tenuis and T. fabula.
- Expected efffects of temperature changes on estuarine fish populations.
- Sea-Level Rises.
- Sea-level changes and tidal-flat characteristics.
- Long-term beach and shoreface changes, NW Jutland, Denmark: effects of a change in wind direction.
- Climate change, sea level rise and morphological developments in the Dutch Wadden Sea, a marine wetland.
- Sea-level rise and coastal sedimentation in central Noord-Holland (The Netherlands) around 5000 BP: a case study of changes in sedimentation dynamics and sediment distribution patterns.
- Ecological impact of sea level rise oncoastal ecosystems of Mont-Saint-Michel Bay (France).
- Consequences of sea level rise: implications from the Mississippi Delta.
- Possible effects of sea level changes on salt-marsh vegetation.
- Salt marshes in The Netherlands Wadden Sea: rising high-tide levels and accreation enhancement.
- Inshore birds of the soft coasts and sea-level rise.
- UV-B Radiation.
- Effects of increased solar UV-B radiation on coastal marine ecosystems: an overview.
- Expected changes in Dutch coastal vegetation resulting from enhanced levels of solar UV-B.
- Introduction.
- Climatic Changes.
- Man’s impact on atmosphere and climate: a global threat? Strategies to combat global warming.
- Ecological interpretation of climate projections.
- Western European regional climate scenarios in a high greenhouse gas world and agricultural impacts.
- Elevated Carbon-Dioxide Concentrations.
- The primary productivity of Puccinellia maritima and Spartina anglica: a simple predictive model of response to climatic change.
- Direct effects of elevated CO2 concentration levels on grass and clover in ‘model-ecosystems’.
- Effects of atmospheric carbon dioxide enrichment on salt-marsh plants.
- Temperature Changes.
- The geographic distribution of seaweed species in relation to temperature: present and past.
- Expected effects of changing seawater temperatures on the geographic distribution of seaweed species.