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Coastal Ecosystem Processes, written by the renowned marine scientist Daniel Alongi, describes how pelagic and benthic food webs, from beaches and tidal flats to the continental edge, process energy and matter. This volume focuses on recent advances and new developments on how food webs are closely intertwined with the geology, chemistry, and physics of coastal seas. Dr. Alongi presents a process-functional approach as a way of understanding how the energetics of coastal ecosystems rely not only on exchanges within and between food chains, but how such functions are influenced by terrigenous and atmospheric processes.
There is a need for documentation and an awareness of just how necessary, yet delicate, is the interplay of biological and physical forces between coastal ocean, land, and the atmosphere. Marine scientists today need to make informed management decisions about sustainable development and conservation of these fragile ecosystems. Coastal Ecosystem Processes provides present and future marine scientists the latest coastal ecosystem information to make the right decisions concerning the ecology of our oceans.

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Alongi has applied his extensive research experience in writing this valuable treatment of coastal processes; he focuses on trophic relationships, energy and carbon flows, and nutrient budgets. This is a balanced approach to the topic, with nearly equal emphases on temperate and tropical coastal ecosystems. Most of the chapters are organized around habitats with chapters on beaches and tidal flats, mangroves and salt marshes, seaweed and seagrass ecosystems, coral reefs, the coastal zone (estuaries, lagoons), and the coastal ocean (processes over the continental shelf proper and its edge). The book concludes with a chapter on human degradation of coastal habitats and a discussion of attempts at restoration and conservation. Coverage of coastal processes is in depth, with numerous references and specific examples of studies to illustrate points. Alongi's understanding of these complex processes is apparent in his ability to point out processes that are poorly understood, past paradigms that are in question, and areas for future research. Appropriate as a reference for marine ecologists and as a text for advanced courses (upper-division undergraduate or graduate) in coastal ecology. C. E. Tanner; St. Mary's College of Maryland

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Alongi, Daniel M.