Nutrients and Eutrophication in Estuaries and Coastal Waters: Proceedings of the 31st Symposium of the Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Association (ECSA), held in Bilbao, Spain, 3–7 July 2000

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Causes, historical development, effects and future challenges of a common environmental problem: eutrophication....Pages 1-19
Modern foraminiferal record of alternating open and restricted environmental conditions in the Santo André lagoon, SW Portugal....Pages 21-27
Nutrient inputs to the Irish Sea: temporal and spatial perspectives....Pages 29-38
Nutrient-enhanced productivity in the northern Gulf of Mexico: past, present and future....Pages 39-63
Potential modification of the fluxes of nitrogen from the Humber Estuary catchment (U.K.) to the North Sea in response to changing agricultural inputs and climate patterns....Pages 65-77
Estimation of ecological exergy using weighing parameters determined from DNA contents of organisms — a case study....Pages 79-90
Trophic status based on nutrient concentration scales and primary producers community of tropical coastal lagoons influenced by groundwater discharges....Pages 91-98
‘Ferry-Boxes’ and data stations for improved monitoring and resolution of eutrophication-related processes: application in Southampton Water UK, a temperate latitude hypernutrified estuary....Pages 99-110
Identifying ‘hot spots’ of biological and anthropogenic activity in two Irish estuaries using means and frequencies....Pages 111-123
Distribution patterns of nutrients and symptoms of eutrophication in the Rio de la Plata River Estuary System....Pages 125-139
Baseline study of soft bottom benthic assemblages in the Bay of Santander (Gulf of Biscay)....Pages 141-149
Nutrient (N, P, Si) fluxes between marine sediments and water column in coastal and open Adriatic....Pages 151-159
Nitrogen fluxes and budget seasonality in the Ria Vigo (NW Iberian Peninsula)....Pages 161-171
The winter and summer partitioning of dissolved nitrogen and phosphorus. Observations across the Irish Sea during 1997 and 1998....Pages 173-184
Long-term changes in Wadden Sea nutrient cycles: importance of organic matter import from the North Sea....Pages 185-194
Particulate inputs to Dublin Bay and to the South Lagoon, Bull Island....Pages 195-204
A model for predicting the temporal evolution of dissolved oxygen concentration in shallow estuaries....Pages 205-211
Modelling the faecal coliform concentrations in the Bilbao estuary....Pages 213-219
Simulating vertical water mixing in homogeneous estuaries: the SADO Estuary case....Pages 221-227
Mathematical modelling as a management tool for water quality control of the tropical Beberibe estuary, NE Brazil....Pages 229-237
The prediction of nutrients into estuaries and their subsequent behaviour: application to the Tamar and comparison with the Tweed, U.K.....Pages 239-250
Seasonal change in the proportion of bacterial and phytoplankton production along a salinity gradient in a shallow estuary....Pages 251-262
The planktonic food web structure of a temperate zone estuary, and its alteration due to eutrophication....Pages 263-333
The feeding strategy of the dunlin ( Calidris alpina L.) in artificial and non-artificial habitats at Ria de Aveiro, Portugal....Pages 335-343
Short-term variations in the physiological state of phytoplankton in a shallow temperate estuary....Pages 345-358
Evidence of a planktonic food web response to changes in nutrient input dynamics in the Mar Menor coastal lagoon, Spain....Pages 359-369
Some ecological properties in relation to eutrophication in the Baltic Sea....Pages 371-377
Evaluation of the nutrient inputs to a coastal lagoon: the case of the Ria de Aveiro, Portugal....Pages 379-385
Evaluation of a eutrophic coastal lagoon ecosystem from the study of bottom sediments....Pages 387-401
Changes in point and non-point sources phosphorus loads in the Thau catchment over 25 years (Mediterranean Sea — France)....Pages 403-411
Nutrients related to the hydrologic regime in the coastal lagoons of Viladecans (NE Spain)....Pages 413-422
Filling of a wetland (Seine estuary, France): natural eutrophication or anthropogenic process? A sedimentological and geochemical study of wetland organic sediments....Pages 423-435
The effects of macroalgal cover on the spatial distribution of macrobenthic invertebrates: the effect of macroalgal morphology....Pages 437-448
Importance of discards of a beam trawl fishery as input of organic matter into nursery areas within the Tagus estuary....Pages 449-455
The intertidal soft-bottom infaunal macrobenthos in three Basque estuaries (Gulf of Biscay): a feeding guild approach....Pages 457-468
‘ In vitro ’ and ‘ in situ ’ decomposition of nuisance macroalgae Cladophora glomerata and Pilayella littoralis ....Pages 469-476
Late Holocene pollution in the Gernika estuary (southern Bay of Biscay) evidenced by the study of Foraminifera and Ostracoda....Pages 477-491
Planktonic chlorophyll a and eutrophication in two Mediterranean littoral systems (Mallorca Island, Spain)....Pages 493-504
Physiological response of Spisula subtruncata (da Costa, 1778) to different seston quantity and quality....Pages 505-511
The management of nutrients and potential eutrophication in estuaries and other restricted water bodies....Pages 513-524
Back Matter....Pages 525-526