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Category : Estuaries
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Research for Managing the Nation's Estuaries
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Category : Estuaries
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Clean Coastal Waters
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309069483
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Environmental problems in coastal ecosystems can sometimes be attributed to excess nutrients flowing from upstream watersheds into estuarine settings. This nutrient over-enrichment can result in toxic algal blooms, shellfish poisoning, coral reef destruction, and other harmful outcomes. All U.S. coasts show signs of nutrient over-enrichment, and scientists predict worsening problems in the years ahead. Clean Coastal Waters explains technical aspects of nutrient over-enrichment and proposes both immediate local action by coastal managers and a longer-term national strategy incorporating policy design, classification of affected sites, law and regulation, coordination, and communication. Highlighting the Gulf of Mexico's "Dead Zone," the Pfiesteria outbreak in a tributary of Chesapeake Bay, and other cases, the book explains how nutrients work in the environment, why nitrogen is important, how enrichment turns into over-enrichment, and why some environments are especially susceptible. Economic as well as ecological impacts are examined. In addressing abatement strategies, the committee discusses the importance of monitoring sites, developing useful models of over-enrichment, and setting water quality goals. The book also reviews voluntary programs, mandatory controls, tax incentives, and other policy options for reducing the flow of nutrients from agricultural operations and other sources.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309069483
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Environmental problems in coastal ecosystems can sometimes be attributed to excess nutrients flowing from upstream watersheds into estuarine settings. This nutrient over-enrichment can result in toxic algal blooms, shellfish poisoning, coral reef destruction, and other harmful outcomes. All U.S. coasts show signs of nutrient over-enrichment, and scientists predict worsening problems in the years ahead. Clean Coastal Waters explains technical aspects of nutrient over-enrichment and proposes both immediate local action by coastal managers and a longer-term national strategy incorporating policy design, classification of affected sites, law and regulation, coordination, and communication. Highlighting the Gulf of Mexico's "Dead Zone," the Pfiesteria outbreak in a tributary of Chesapeake Bay, and other cases, the book explains how nutrients work in the environment, why nitrogen is important, how enrichment turns into over-enrichment, and why some environments are especially susceptible. Economic as well as ecological impacts are examined. In addressing abatement strategies, the committee discusses the importance of monitoring sites, developing useful models of over-enrichment, and setting water quality goals. The book also reviews voluntary programs, mandatory controls, tax incentives, and other policy options for reducing the flow of nutrients from agricultural operations and other sources.
Effects of Nutrient Enrichment in the Nation's Estuaries
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Category : Estuarine ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Category : Estuarine ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Status of U.S. Marine Research
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Oceanography
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Category : Federal aid to research
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Category : Federal aid to research
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Ashepoo-Combahee-Edisto (ACE) Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve Management Plan
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Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Languages : en
Pages : 276
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NOAA/CZMA
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Oceanography
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Category : Coastal zone management
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Category : Coastal zone management
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Certain Independent Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1987: Nondepartmental witnesses
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 926
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 926
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Papers from the Estuarine Management Practices Symposium 1985, November 12-13, 1985, Prince Murat Inn, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Category : Estuarine area conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Category : Estuarine area conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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National Estuary Study
Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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Category : Estuaries
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Category : Estuaries
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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National Estuary Study
Author: United States. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife
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Category : Estuaries
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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Category : Estuaries
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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