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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Coastal Marine Ecosystems of Latin America
  name:
    name part: Seeliger, Ulrich.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Kjerfve, Bjorn.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxvi, 363 pages)
  abstract: Coastal and marine ecosystems, some severely degraded, other still pristine, control rich resources of inshore environments and coastal seas of Latin America's Pacific and Atlantic margins. Conflicts between the needs of the region's nations and diminishing revenues and environmental quality have induced awareness of coastal ecological problems and motivated financial support for restoration and management. The volume provides a competent review on the structure, processes and function of 22 important Latin American coastal marine ecosystems. Each contribution describes the environmental settings, biotic components and structure of the system, considers trophic processes and energy flow, evaluates the modifying influence of natural and human perturbations, and suggests management needs. Although the focus of the book is on basic ecological research, the results have application for coastal managers.
  table of contents: From the contents: The tectonic and geological environment of coastal South America -- The Gulf of Honduras -- The coastal lagoon Cienaga Grande de Santa Marta, Colombia -- The Maracaibo System, Venezuela -- The Orinoco River Delta, Venezuela -- The Itamataca estuarine ecosystem, Brazil -- the Abrolhos Reefs of Brazil -- The Cabo Frio upwelling system, Brazil -- Baja de Guanabara, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- The Lagunar region and estuary ecosystem of Cananeia, Brazil -- The subtropical estuarine complex of Paranagua Bay, Brazil -- The convergence ecosystem in the southwest Atlantic -- The Patos Lagoon Estuary, Brazil -- The Rio de la Plata Estuary, Argentina-Uruguay -- The Bahia Blanca Estuary, Argentina -- The sand beach ecosystem of Chile -- The Peruvian coastal upwelling system. The Gulf of Guayaquil and the Guayas River estuary, Ecuador -- The estuary ecosystem of Buenaventura Bay, Colombia -- Eastern Pacific coral reef ecosystems -- The tropical Pacific coast of Mexico -- And much more ...
  note: edited by Ulrich Seeliger, Björn Kjerfve.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Oceanography
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental management
  subject:
    topic: Nature conservation
  subject:
    topic: Pollution
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental management
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Nature conservation
  subject:
    topic: Oceanography
  subject:
    topic: Pollution
  classification: QH540-549.5
  classification: 577
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Ecological Studies, Analysis and Synthesis ; 144
  identifier: 9783662044827 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 366204482X (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9783642086571
  identifier: 3642086578
  identifier: 366204482X
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 130107
    record change date: 20260423140955.9
    record identifier: in00003576322
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng