Ecological Continuum from the Changjiang (Yangtze River) Watersheds to the East China Sea Continental Margin

Download or read book Ecological Continuum from the Changjiang (Yangtze River) Watersheds to the East China Sea Continental Margin written by Jing Zhang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a cross-disciplinary and multi-scale assessment of a world top river, the Changjiang (Yangtze River) and its adjacent marginal environment, the East China Sea. The studies in this volume bridges the watersheds of the river and the marginal sea through a combined approach of hydro-dynamics, geochemistry, sedimentary processes, ecology and fishery. The response of ecosystem to the external driving forces is examined via process-oriented observations, mesocosm experiments and numerical simulations in combination. The lessons learnt from the case studies of Changjiang and East China Sea can be beneficial to those who are doing inter-disciplinary researches in the continuum from watersheds to continental margins.