Monitoring and Assessment of Environmental Quality in Coastal Ecosystems

• Other Authors: Gonçalves, Sílvia C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Environmental economics; radioactive materials; trace metals; bioaccumulation; marine fish; crustaceans; marine environmental pollution; Bay of Bengal; beach litter; infrared thermography; UAV; UGV; environmental monitoring; coastal pollution; fuzzy modelling; marine sediment; Takagi-Sugeno; ordinary kriging (OK); inverse distance weighting (IDW); spatial predictions; endocrine disruptors; Mugil cephalus; PFNA; ecosystem services; benefit transfer; meta-analysis; meta-regression function
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Coastal ecosystems are dynamic, complex, and often fragile transition environments between land and oceans. They are exclusive habitats for a broad range of living organisms, functioning as havens for biodiversity and providing several important ecological services that link terrestrial, freshwater,...