Sediments ecosystem services

Land-use change in the coastal zone has accelerated the rate of pollutant loading for three reasons. First, removal of vegetation mobilizes materials, such as sediment. Second, the emplacement of impervious surfeces, such as roads and roofs, enhances pollutant transport as part of stormwater runoff Third, loss of natural habitats, such as wetlands, eliminates important ecosystem services, such as pollutant uptake and degradation. 

Natural Capital, Industrial Ecology, and Ecosystem Services— The Role off Sediments... 

Wall, D.H. (2004) Sustaining Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Soils and Sediments, Island Press, Washington, DC, 275 pp. 

Twilley, R.R., and McKee, B.A. (1996) Ecosystem analysis of the Louisiana Bight and adjacent shelf environments. Vol. I. The fate of organic matter and nutrients in the sediments of the Louisiana Bight. OCS study/MMS No., U.S. Dept, of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Gulf of Mexico OCS Regional Office, New Orleans. 

Sediments in aquatic ecosystems provide a variety of services (e.g., transformation of complex organic substances). Regrettably, not all, perhaps even most, ecosystem functions have been identified and even those that have been identified generally do not have an information base adequate for estimating... 

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