Conceptualizing the role of sediment in sustaining ecosystem services: Sediment-ecosystem regional assessment (SEcoRA)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 415, Issue , 2012, Pages 9-30

  Apitz, Sabine E ^a  

^a SEA Environmental Decisions Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecosystem services; Sediment location; Sediment quality; Sediment quantity; Sediment transport; Sediments

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; CONTAMINATED SEDIMENT; CORAL REEF; DECISION FRAMEWORK; DIVERSE RANGE; DYNAMIC INTERACTION; ECOLOGICAL OBJECTIVES; ECOSYSTEM ASSESSMENT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; HABITAT CHANGE; INFILLING; LANDSCAPE SCALE; SEDIMENT MANAGEMENT; SEDIMENT QUALITY; SITE-SPECIFIC; SOIL AND SEDIMENT; STORM PROTECTION; WATER USE; WATERSHED SCALE;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIODIVERSITY; EUTROPHICATION; NUTRIENTS; PORTS AND HARBORS; REDUCTION; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; WATER SUPPLY;

ECOSYSTEMS;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; EUTROPHICATION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE PLANNING; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WATER USE;

AGRICULTURE; AIR QUALITY; ANALYTIC METHOD; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DREDGING; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUTROPHICATION; FISHING; FORESTRY; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENT ECOSYSTEM REGIONAL ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT LOCATION; SEDIMENT QUALITY; SEDIMENT QUANTITY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84855837851     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.05.060     Document Type: Article

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