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Hydrological Changes and Estuarine Dynamics

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science Book Series (volume 8)

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5833-3

ISBN: 978-1-4614-5832-6

Publisher: Springer New York - Springer Journals

Nov 1, 2012

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Introduction

Montagna, Paul A.; Palmer, Terence A.; Beseres Pollack, Jennifer

Pages: 1 –4

[Water development projects are constructed worldwide for many purposes, but most commonly for water supply, flood control, and energy production. Projects always alter hydrology, which means that environmental flow regimes are also altered.]
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Conceptual Model of Estuary Ecosystems

Montagna, Paul A.; Palmer, Terence A.; Beseres Pollack, Jennifer

Pages: 5 –21

[An estuary is a semienclosed coastal body of water, which has a free connection with the open sea and within which, sea water is measurably diluted with fresh water from land drainage (Pritchard 1967). Most estuaries have a series of landscape subcomponents: a river (or fresh water) source, a...
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Case Studies

Montagna, Paul A.; Palmer, Terence A.; Beseres Pollack, Jennifer

Pages: 23 –78

[There have been at least two major compilations of research on the topic of freshwater inflow. There was a symposium convened in 1980 in San Antonio, Texas to identify the issues regarding “Freshwater Inflow to Estuaries” (Cross and Williams 1981). The goal of the symposium was to identify...
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Summary: Water Supply, People, and the Future

Montagna, Paul A.; Palmer, Terence A.; Beseres Pollack, Jennifer

Pages: 79 –81

[At this point in time, there is no question as to whether freshwater inflow is important to coastal ecosystems. Rather, the important questions are how, when, where, and in what quantities inflow should be used for environmental purposes.]

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