Estuaries

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wangersky, Peter J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, 5H
• Subjects: Environment.; Water quality.; Water pollution.; Ecotoxicology.; Nature conservation.; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution.; Water Quality/Water Pollution.; Nature Conservation.

Aspects of the biogeochemistry of estuaries from a variety of environments, from the tropics to the Arctic, are discussed. In most cases the courses of these rivers have been altered by dams or diversions; the results of these changes on the nature of the estuary are also discussed, where such data...