ABSTRACT

Dynamic and productive ecosystems, coastal lagoons play an important role in local economies and often bear the brunt of coastal development, agricultural, and urban waste, overuse from fisheries, aquaculture, transportation, energy production, and other human activities. The features that make coastal lagoons vital ecosystems underline the importa

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The Choptank Basin in Transition

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1Chapter 1 Lagoons of the Nile Delta