The Land-Sea Interactions

About this book

The vulnerability of the ocean ecosystem combines the probability of exposure to natural or anthropogenic pressure, sensitivity and resilience. Vulnerability of the Ocean System presents a systemic view of the diversity of pressures and impacts produced by climate change and human actions. Erosion of biodiversity by changing ocean chemistry, the intensification of global change raises the problem of the adaptation of living resources.

Land uses induce ecological imbalances leading to asphyxiation true coastal ecosystems. More than a billion tons of solid waste must be assimilated by the marine environment and food webs. Radioactive discharges emitted into the atmosphere or into the aquatic environment, raise the question of their future.

Contents

Chapter 1. Ocean biodiversity and resources
Gilles Boeuf

Chapter 2. Impact of global change on the dynamics of natural resources exploited
Philippe Gros and Patrick Prouzet

Chapter 3. Ocean acidification and its consequences
Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Lina Hansson and Frédéric Gazeau

Chapter 4. Marine eutrophication
Alain Ménesguen

Chapter 5. Pollution by Solid Waste
François Galgani

Chapter 6. Anthropogenic radioactivity in the marine environment
Sabine Charmasson Pascal Bailly du Bois, Hervé Thebault, Dominique and Bruno Boust Fiévet

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