Insidious Alteration of the Estuarine Environment
- 1 October 1970
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
- Vol. 99 (4) , 836-847
- https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8659(1970)99<836:iaotee>2.0.co;2
Abstract
Shallow estuaries are characterized by certain features which make them rich and productive ecosystems; these same characteristics, however, are responsible for the delicate nature of the estuarine environment and greatly enhance its vulnerability to subtle alteration. In this paper and the subsequent discussions, we examine some of these features and discuss how insidious changes in estuaries can occur.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: