Monitoring and Assessment of Environmental Quality in Coastal Ecosystems

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Bay of Bengal; beach litter; benefit transfer; bioaccumulation; coastal pollution; crustaceans; Economics; Economics of specific sectors; Economics, Finance, Business and Management; ecosystem services; endocrine disruptors; Environmental economics; environmental monitoring; fuzzy modelling; infrared thermography; inverse distance weighting (IDW); marine environmental pollution; marine fish; marine sediment; meta-analysis; meta-regression function; Mugil cephalus; ordinary kriging (OK); PFNA; radioactive materials; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Research and information: general; spatial predictions; Takagi–Sugeno; trace metals; UAV; UGV

Coastal ecosystems are dynamic, complex, and often fragile transition environments between land and oceans. They are exclusive habitats for a broad range of living organisms, functioning as havens for biodiversity and providing several important ecological services that link terrestrial, freshwater,...