Centre documentaire

Estuarine ecology

Introduction and overview
– Background, theory and issues
Physical considerations
– Estuarine geomorphology and physical oceanography
– Estuarine chemistry
Estuarine plants and primary production
– Estuarine phytoplankton
– Intertidal wetlands; salt marshes and mangrove swamps
– Estuarine seagrasses
Reduced carbon and its fate in the estuary
– Microbial ecology and organic detritus in estuaries
Estuarine consumers
– Zooplankton, the drifting consumers
– The estuarine bottom and benthic subsytem
– Nekton, the free-swimming consumers
– The role of wildelife in estuarine ecosystems
Humans and estuaries
– Estuarine fisheries
– Human impact in estuaries