The Estuarine Ecosystem

DSM: Senior Lecturer, School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling British. Born Harrogate, Yorkshire 27 June 1945Editor of the journal Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science and Trustee of the Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Association ME: Director, Institute of Estuarine & Coastal Studies (IECS), and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biological Sciences, The University of HullBritish, born Nottingham, England, 3 November 1952Honorary Secretary of the Estuarine & Coastal Sciences Association; Fellow of the Institute of Biology, Course Co-ordinator of a MSc in Estuarine & Coastal Science & Management; member of Editorial Boards of the journals: Marine Pollution Bulletin, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Marine Environmental Research; advisor to national and international bodies concerned with environmental change in estuaries and coasts.

Fortunately, the content remains, not unchanged, but the essentials preserved and supplemented ... all the things the students liked in the previous editions - the simple Figures and Tables, the clear and concise expositions - are still there, but augmented with the new syntheses.

• 1. The Estuarine Environment ; 2. Life in Estuaries ; 3. Primary Producers: plant production and its availability ; 4. Primary Consumers: herbivores and detritivores ; 5. The Secondary Consumers: carnivores ; 6. Estuarine Uses and Users ; 7. Methods for Studying Human-Induced Changes in Estuaries ; 8. The Management of Estuaries