Coastal ecosystem processes
By: Daniel M. Alongi.
Series: Marine science series
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
Subjects: Coastal ecology.; Food chains (Ecology)
Description: Coastal Ecosystem Processes, written by the renowned marine scientist Daniel Alongi, describes how pelagic and benthic food webs, from beaches and tidal flats to the continental edge, process energy and matter. This volume focuses on recent advances and new developments on how food webs are closely intertwined with the geology, chemistry, and physics of coastal seas. Dr.

Alongi presents a process-functional approach as a way of understanding how the energetics of coastal ecosystems rely not only on exchanges within and between food chains, but how such functions are influenced by terrigenous and atmospheric processes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-397) and index.