Titlebook: Habitats and Biota of the Gulf of Mexico: Before the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Volume 1: Water Qual C. Herb Ward Book‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘ 2017 The E

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Book‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘ 2017ly impacted by human activities, including agricultural, industrial, commercial and coastal development. The Gulf of Mexico has been continuously exposed to petroleum hydrocarbons for millions of years from natural oil and gas seeps on the sea floor, and more recently from oil drilling and productio

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Habitats and Biota of the Gulf of Mexico: An Overview,s of biota and their diseases and mortalities, and commercial and recreational fisheries are provided. Biodiversity in the Gulf is high, but environmental impacts are numerous and varied and most occur within the coastal zone.

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6 ; or to order both volumes as a printed set http://www.spr.This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license..The Gulf of Mexico is an open and dynamic marine ecosystem rich in natural resources but heavily impacted by human activities, including agricultural, industrial, commercial and coasta

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06089-4s of biota and their diseases and mortalities, and commercial and recreational fisheries are provided. Biodiversity in the Gulf is high, but environmental impacts are numerous and varied and most occur within the coastal zone.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/b102409 diminished water clarity, and other secondary effects including toxic/nuisance algal blooms and loss of submerged aquatic vegetation. Overall, the ecological condition of the coastal northern Gulf of Mexico was judged as . to ., water quality was fair, and expressions of eutrophication were high.

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Water Quality of the Gulf of Mexico, diminished water clarity, and other secondary effects including toxic/nuisance algal blooms and loss of submerged aquatic vegetation. Overall, the ecological condition of the coastal northern Gulf of Mexico was judged as . to ., water quality was fair, and expressions of eutrophication were high.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06089-4ll in 2010. Brief summaries of water and sediment quality, energy flow—including natural oil and gas seeps, coastal and offshore habitats, major groups of biota and their diseases and mortalities, and commercial and recreational fisheries are provided. Biodiversity in the Gulf is high, but environme

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https://doi.org/10.1007/b102409ity of water—and the levels of contaminants. The patterns and trends in the Gulf of Mexico water quality are highly variable in space and through time. Assessments conclude that water quality in the Gulf of Mexico coastal environments is highly influenced by human activities, and the primary cause o

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137366870imary mechanisms that move sediment. Most sediment originates from the adjacent land, primarily via fluvial transport. Direct precipitation of calcium carbonate and evaporate minerals takes place primarily on the Florida and Yucatán platforms and some coastal lagoons. The deep environments tend to b

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Conclusion: The Horror That Came to Sarnath,re due to agricultural pesticide use, increased populations in, and industrialization of, coastal areas, and oil and gas exploration and production post-World War II. Coastal estuaries were judged to be in good to poor condition with concentrations of metals and pesticides in more than 40 % and conc