Abstract The Mar Menor lagoon combined high biological production and environmental
quality, making it an important economic engine. However, the pressure of human activities …

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 …

Hydrological processes and water resources are increasingly modified by anthropogenic
actions, leading to multiple pressures on the environment and related ecosystems. A better …

The excess input of nutrients that triggers eutrophication processes is one of the main
destabilizing factors of coastal ecosystems, being coastal lagoons prone to suffer these …

The uprising interest in gelatinous zooplankton populations must cope with a lack of robust
time series of direct abundance observations in most of the ecosystems because of the …

Coastal lagoons count among the marine habitats with the highest biological productivity,
playing an important ecological role. Together with wetlands in general and coral reefs, they …

Eutrophication is a major driver of the degradation of transitional waters worldwide,
especially in environments with a restricted connection to the sea, such as coastal lagoons …

The Mar Menor lagoon has been subjected to high anthropogenic pressures. Among them,
in the early 1970s, dredging and enlargement of one of the inlets to make a navigable …

Coastal lagoons are among the most productive and biodiverse systems in the world and
are important sentinels of climate change. The Mar Menor is one of the largest coastal …

Coastal lagoons are among the most productive systems in the world. Many marine species
make use of this by entering the lagoons as juveniles for nursery and growth before …