The Scheldt estuary: a description of a changing ecosystem
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...2 m in 2005 at Antwerpen (Meire et al., 2005)....
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...The tidal range and asymmetry has been slowly increasing since 1550 with no seasonality (van der Spek, 1997; Meire et al., 2005)....
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...The Westerschelde estuary has freshwater inflow from the Schelde, which is a typical rain-fed lowland river, with an average discharge of 104 m3/s at Schelle (Meire et al., 2005), which strongly fluctuates over the seasons from 50 m3/s in summer and up to 400 m3/s in winter (Temmerman et al....
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...It is characterized by a notorious history of pollution and eutrophication (Wollast, 1988; Boderie et al., 1993), and the estuarine intertidal habitats have suffered from important area reduction and quality degradation (Meire et al., 2005)....
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...important area reduction and quality degradation (Meire et al., 2005)....
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...Small horizontal temperature gradients (D Temp 2C) can be observed between the saline and the brakish/freshwater estuary [Meire et al., 2005]....
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...[7] Monthly monitoring programmes reveal the development of a spring and a summer phytoplankton bloom in the freshwater tidal reaches of the Scheldt [Meire et al., 2005; Muylaert et al., 2005]....
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...Small horizontal temperature gradients (D Temp 2oC) can be observed between the saline and the brakish/freshwater estuary [Meire et al., 2005]....
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...…regions, many estuaries experience widely varying conditions of temperature, salinity, concentrations of a wide variety of chemicals, and plant and animal densities, many of whose are mediated by water movement over relatively short time scales (Day et al., 1989; McLusky & Elliott, 2004)....
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...…ecosystem functions: biogeochemical cycling and movement of nutrients, purification of water, mitigation of floods, maintenance of biodiversity, biological production (nursery grounds for several commercial fish and crustacean species) etc. (Daily et al., 1997; De Groot, 1997; Meire et al., 1998)....
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