Environmental Remediation and Management of Coastal Lagoons in the Context of Eutrophication, Global Change, and Opportunistic Species Attack

Dear Colleagues,

In light of the major changes already taking place in all aquatic ecosystems, transitional environments, especially lagoons with limited interchange with the sea, are in a particularly critical condition, although they experience high resilience in comparison with more typical marine ecosystems. The critical issues are due to the intensification of human activities, which are increasingly pressing on the coastal strip. The rise of human activities and their anthropogenic impact on the coastal zone intensifies the critical issues. Fresh waters coming inland are then increasingly enriched with nutrients, organic detritus, and various contaminants.

With this Special Issue, we would like to 1) analyze the environmental status of these areas of land–sea interaction); 2) evaluate the modern types of monitoring, suitable for modeling the environmental dynamics and predicting some critical aspects; 3) evaluate the various mitigation solutions adopted to date, whether engineering and hydraulic solutions (excavation of mouths and channels, modification of shoreline morphology, construction of groins, freshwater or seawater input, and flow accelerators), biological (increase of primary consumers and filter feeders, harvesting and removal of biomass, oxygenation, and sediment oxidation) or chemical (use of sistances to change the nature of sediments); and 4) identify strategies to deal with the changes that are already taking place but destined to become increasingly important: global warming and the dominance of invasive species, whether native or non-native.

Dr. Mauro Lenzi
Guest Editor

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• lagoon environment
• transitional waters
• eutrophication
• opportunistic species
• macroalgae
• seagrass
• sediment biogeochemistry
• climate change
• contaminants, human impact
• lagoon–coastal system