Lagoons and Coastal Wetlands in the Global Change Context: Impact and Management Issues

Preface.- Broad-scale modelling of coastal wetlands: what is required?.- Coastal dynamics and wetlands stability. The Ebro delta case.- Coastal and estuarine ecological risk assessment: the need for a more formal approach to stressor identification.- Observations on future sea level changes in the Venice lagoon.- Defining the coast and sentinel ecosystems for coastal observations of global change.- Distribution and production of macrophytes and phytoplankton in the lagoon of Venice: comparison of actual and past situation.- Growth and survival of the invasive alga, Caulerpa taxifolia, in different salinities and temperatures: implications for coastal lake management.- Studies on the zooplankton community of a shallow lagoon of the Southern Baltic Sea: long-term trends, seasonal changes, and relations with physical and chemical parameters.- Hydrographic, geomorphologic and fish assemblage relationships in coastal lagoons.- Species-area patterns of benthic macro-invertebrates in Italian lagoons.- Index of size distribution (ISD): a method of quality assessment for coastal lagoons.- Low variation at allozyme loci and differences between age classes at microsatellites in grass goby (Zosterisessor ophiocephalus) populations.- Ecological engineering in intertidial saltmarshes.