Ecological Continuum from the Changjiang (Yangtze River) Watersheds to the East China Sea Continental Margin

Buch | Softcover

XIV, 201 Seiten

2016 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-35488-0 (ISBN)

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The book provides a cross-disciplinary and multi-scale assessment of a world top river, the Changjiang (Yangtze River) and its adjacent marginal environment, the East China Sea. The studies in this volume bridges the watersheds of the river and the marginal sea through a combined approach of hydro-dynamics, geochemistry, sedimentary processes, ecology and fishery. The response of ecosystem to the external driving forces is examined via process-oriented observations, mesocosm experiments and numerical simulations in combination. The lessons learnt from the case studies of Changjiang and East China Sea can be beneficial to those who are doing inter-disciplinary researches in the continuum from watersheds to continental margins.

Jing Zhang is a full professor at the State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University at Shanghai, China. While working as mentor for postgraduate studies, he teaches chemical oceanography and biogeochemistry. He completed undergraduate studies at the Nanjing University (China), and received his MSc from the Ocean University of Qingdao (China) and his PhD from the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) in France. His research experience has been in the multi-disciplinary studies from the river watersheds to the continental margins, where he and his colleagues worked on the transfer and transformation of chemical elements at land - ocean interfaces and the impacts on the food-web structure and ecosystem function.

Chapter 1: Land-Ocean Interactions between the Changjiang (Yangtze River).- Watersheds to the East China Sea Continental Margins.- Chapter 2: Hydrodynamics of the Changjiang Estuary and Adjacent Seas.- Chapter 3: Changjiang and Estuary sediment transport dynamics.- Chapter 4: Temporal variations in water and sediment discharge from the Changjiang (Yangtze River) and downstream sedimentary responses in the estuary.- Chapter 5: Plant Nutrients and Trace Elements from the Changjiang Watershed to the East China Sea.- Chapter 6: Organic matter and biomarkers of the Changjiang Estuary and East China Sea Shelf.- Chapter 7: Coastal Wetlands in the Changjiang Estuary.- Chapter 8: Marine Biology of the Changjiang (Yangtze River) Estuary and Adjacent East China Sea Shelf.- Chapter 9: Socio-economic Dimensions of the Coastal Environment of the East China Sea.

Erscheinungsdatum	21.10.2016
Reihe/Serie	Estuaries of the World
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 201 p. 140 illus., 87 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 279 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
Schlagworte	Biology and fishery • Changjiang (Yangtze River) and East China Sea • Coastal Sciences • coastal wetlands • Deltas, estuaries, coastal regions • Earth and Environmental Science • Ecological science, the Biosphere • Environmental Health • Environmental medicine • Freshwater & Marine Ecology • Freshwater & Marine Ecology • hydrobiology • Hydro-dynamics and biogeochemistry • Hydrology and the hydrosphere • Hydrology/Water Resources • Limnology (freshwater) • Marine & Freshwater Sciences • marine and freshwater sciences • Marine & Freshwater Sciences • Oceanography • Oceanography (seas) • Sedimentary processes and environmental health • The Environment
ISBN-10	3-319-35488-4 / 3319354884
ISBN-13	978-3-319-35488-0 / 9783319354880
Zustand	Neuware