Major Biological Processes in European Tidal Estuaries

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Major biological processes in European tidal estuaries: a synthesis of the JEEP-92 Project.
• Primary production.
• Nutrients, light and primary production by phytoplankton and microphytobenthos in the eutrophic, turbid Westerschelde estuary (The Netherlands).
• Dynamics and distribution of microphytobenthic chlorophyll-a in the Western Scheldt estuary (SW Netherlands).
• Bacterial processes.
• Comparison of heterotrophic bacterial production rates in early spring in the turbid estuaries of the Scheldt and the Elbe.
• Nitrous oxide emissions from estuarine intertidal sediments.
• Carbon and nitrogen cycling in intertidal sediments near Doel, Scheldt Estuary.
• Zooplankton.
• Copepod feeding in the Westerschelde and the Gironde.
• Long-term changes in the population of Eurytemora affinis (Copopoda, Calanoida) in the Gironde estuary (1978–1992).
• Secondary production of the brackish copepod communities and their contribution to the carbon fluxes in the Westerschelde estuary (The Netherlands).
• Feeding rates and productivity of the copepod Acartia bifilosa in a highly turbid estuary; the Gironde (SW France).
• Production rates of Eurytemora affinis in the Elbe estuary, comparison of field and enclosure production estimates.
• Comparative spring distribution of zooplankton in three macrotidal European estuaries.
• Hyperbenthos.
• Comparative study of the hyperbenthos of three European estuaries.
• Meiobenthos.
• Effects of manipulation of food supply on estuarine meiobenthos.
• Meiobenthic distribution and nematode community structure in five European estuaries.
• Macrobenthos.
• The response of two estuarine benthic communities to the quantity and quality of food.
• Modelling.
• Estimating estuarine residence times in the Westerschelde (The Netherlands) using a box model with fixeddispersion coefficients.
• Nitrogen dynamics in the Westerschelde estuary (SW Netherlands) estimated by means of the ecosystem model MOSES.
• Carbon flows in the Westerschelde estuary (The Netherlands) evaluated by means of an ecosystem model (MOSES).