This review summarizes the historic, correlative field evidence and experimental research
that implicate cultural eutrophication as a major cause of seagrass disappearance. We …

Eutrophication caused by phosphorus (P) leads to water quality problems in aquatic
systems, particularly freshwaters, worldwide. Processing of nutrients in shallow habitats …

Nutrient loading to coastal bay ecosystems is of a similar magnitude as that to deeper, river-
fed estuaries, yet our understanding of the eutrophication process in these shallow systems …

Articles ductivity and heterotrophic bacterial productivity rather than biomass because we
were interested in energy flow in lake food webs. However, we found measurements of …

Benthic community responses to lake eutrophication are poorly understood relative to
pelagic responses. We compared phytoplankton and periphyton productivity along a …

Coastal lagoons are considered among the marine habitats with the highest biological
productivity, and support a great variety of human activities and pressures that make them …

Seaweed assemblages represent the dominant autotrophic biomass in many coastal
environments, playing a central structural and functional role in several ecosystems. In …

Written by an internationally renowned group of contributors, this book examines the
function and structure of coastal lagoon ecosystems and the factors that affect them. The …

Periphyton communities have received relatively little attention in lake ecosystems.
However, evidence is increasing that they play a key role in primary productivity, nutrient …

Shallow coastal lagoons are environments where a dynamic equilibrium exists between
water quality and seagrass cover. Dense seagrass canopies limit the resuspension of bed …