Effects of Riverine Inputs on Coastal Resources

Dear Colleagues,

The riverine transport is the primary mechanism for direct impacts of land-based anthropogenic activities on coastal resources and the marine environment. Coastal waters contain some of the most productive ecosystems on Earth and are sites of intense downward particle fluxes and organic accumulation. Near costal areas, ecosystems and estuaries are subject to various processes resulting from river plumes containing river-borne constituents. In many parts of the world, coastal ecosystems are experiencing unfavorable changes in water quality, an increasing frequency of eutrophication events, changes in marine biodiversity, coastal flooding, fecal pollution, and other impacts questioning the sustainability and safety of coastal water bodies.

Many practitioners implementing coastal zone management and planning decisions are nowadays challenged to quantitatively determine the ecological, hydrodynamic, biological, economic, and social impacts of riverine discharges and surface runoff on coastal resources and marine environment in order to assure the healthy and hygienic state of the marine environment. There is a clear need to better understand the spatial extent to which riverine discharges influence coastal resources and the marine environment.

This Special Issue will focus on all aspects affecting coastal resources and the marine environment from land-based anthropogenic activities with the intention to provide a conceptual background and documented experience that may be useful to those involved in scientific, management, or political issues related to the utilization and protection of coastal ecosystems.

Prof. Dr. Roko Andricevic
Guest Editor

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• monitoring and modeling of coastal water bodies 
• nutrient enrichment in estuaries 
• marine litter 
• climate change impacts on coastal resources
• coastal zone management