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Contents
Part I Impacts of Urbanization, Agricultural Occupation, Pollution,
Climate Change, and Coastal Marine Influences
1 The Florida Everglades: An Overview of Alteration
and Restoration .......................................................................................
3
Charles W. Finkl and Christopher Makowski
2
Recent Agricultural Occupation and Environmental
Regeneration of Salt Marshes in Northern Spain ................................ 47
Ane García-Artola, Alejandro Cearreta, and María Jesús Irabien
3
Impact of Urbanization on the Evolution of Mangrove
Ecosystems in the Wouri River Estuary (Douala Cameroon) ............. 81
Ndongo Din, Vanessa Maxemilie Ngo-Massou,
Guillaume Léopold Essomè- Koum, Eugene Ndema-Nsombo,
Ernest Kottè-Mapoko, and Laurant Nyamsi-Moussian
4 Impacts of Coastal Land Use Changes on Mangrove Wetlands
at Sungai Mangsalut Basin in Brunei Darussalam .............................. 133
Shafi Noor Islam and Umar Abdul Aziz Bin Yahya
5 Land Use and Occupation of Coastal Tropical Wetlands:
Whale Coast, Bahia, Brazil .................................................................... 159
Sirius O. Souza, Camara C. Vale, and Regina C. Oliveira
6 Degraded Coastal Wetland Ecosystems in the
Ganges-Brahmaputra Rivers Delta Region of Bangladesh ................. 187
Shafi Noor Islam, Sandra Reinstädtler, and Albrecht Gnauck
7 Handling High Soil Trace Elements Pollution: Case Study
of the Odiel and Tinto Rivers Estuary and the Accompanying
Salt Marshes (Southwest Iberian Peninsula) ........................................ 215
Sara Muñoz Vallés, Jesús Cambrollé, Jesús M. Castillo,
Guillermo Curado, Juan Manuel Mancilla-Leytón,
and M. Enrique Figueroa-Clemente
Contents
Part I Impacts of Urbanization, Agricultural Occupation, Pollution,
Climate Change, and Coastal Marine Influences
1 The Florida Everglades: An Overview of Alteration
and Restoration .......................................................................................
3
Charles W. Finkl and Christopher Makowski
2
Recent Agricultural Occupation and Environmental
Regeneration of Salt Marshes in Northern Spain ................................ 47
Ane García-Artola, Alejandro Cearreta, and María Jesús Irabien
3
Impact of Urbanization on the Evolution of Mangrove
Ecosystems in the Wouri River Estuary (Douala Cameroon) ............. 81
Ndongo Din, Vanessa Maxemilie Ngo-Massou,
Guillaume Léopold Essomè- Koum, Eugene Ndema-Nsombo,
Ernest Kottè-Mapoko, and Laurant Nyamsi-Moussian
4 Impacts of Coastal Land Use Changes on Mangrove Wetlands
at Sungai Mangsalut Basin in Brunei Darussalam .............................. 133
Shafi Noor Islam and Umar Abdul Aziz Bin Yahya
5 Land Use and Occupation of Coastal Tropical Wetlands:
Whale Coast, Bahia, Brazil .................................................................... 159
Sirius O. Souza, Camara C. Vale, and Regina C. Oliveira
6 Degraded Coastal Wetland Ecosystems in the
Ganges-Brahmaputra Rivers Delta Region of Bangladesh ................. 187
Shafi Noor Islam, Sandra Reinstädtler, and Albrecht Gnauck
7 Handling High Soil Trace Elements Pollution: Case Study
of the Odiel and Tinto Rivers Estuary and the Accompanying
Salt Marshes (Southwest Iberian Peninsula) ........................................ 215
Sara Muñoz Vallés, Jesús Cambrollé, Jesús M. Castillo,
Guillermo Curado, Juan Manuel Mancilla-Leytón,
and M. Enrique Figueroa-Clemente