Overview
- Presents the main drivers of benthic structure and processes in estuaries from the Brazilian coast
- Assesses the influence of natural and human disturbances on this unique coastal ecosystem
- Discusses the importance of estuaries and their management needs
Part of the book series: Brazilian Marine Biodiversity (BMB)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book presents the main drivers of benthic structure and processes in estuaries from the 8,000 km-Brazilian coast, assesses the influence of natural and human disturbance, and discusses their ecological importance and management needs. Estuaries are unique coastal ecosystems often with low biodiversity that sustain and provide essential ecological services to mankind. These ecosystems include a variety of habitats with their own sediment and fauna dynamics, all of them globally altered or threatened by human activities. Mangroves, saltmarshes, tidal flats and other confined estuarine systems are under increasing stress by overfishing and other human activities leading to habitat and species loss. Combined changes in estuarine hydromorphology and in climate pose severe threats to estuarine ecosystems at a global scale.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Paulo da Cunha Lana is a biological oceanographer, marine ecologist and taxonomist (DSc in Biological Oceanography, University of São Paulo, 1984). He is a Full Professor at Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil. He is interested in understanding why benthic animals are where they are, how they have arrived there, how they live and persist and why they are likely to disappear from time to time.
Angelo Fraga Bernardino PhD in Oceanography (2009) from University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, Dr. Bernardino works with benthic ecology along coastal and deep-sea Continental Margin Ecosystems. He is currently involved in a number of research projects that investigate benthic ecology and function on estuarine and coastal habitats in order to support marine conservation.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Brazilian Estuaries
Book Subtitle: A Benthic Perspective
Editors: Paulo da Cunha Lana, Angelo Fraga Bernardino
Series Title: Brazilian Marine Biodiversity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77779-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77778-8Published: 18 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08537-7Published: 19 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77779-5Published: 09 July 2018
Series ISSN: 2520-1077
Series E-ISSN: 2520-1085
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 212
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biodiversity, Coastal Sciences, Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Sustainable Development