estuarine ecosystem

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meaningsofestuarineandecosystem

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estuarine
adjective
uk
/ˈes.tʃu.ə.raɪn/us
/ˈes.tu.ə.raɪn/
relating to an estuary (= the wide part of a river at the place where it joins ...
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ecosystem
noun[C]
uk
/ˈiː.kəʊˌsɪs.təm/us
/ˈiː.koʊˌsɪs.təm/us
/ˈe.koʊˌsɪs.təm/
all the living things in an area and the way they affect each other and ...
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Consequently, boundaries have been drawn to protect the form and function of the entireestuarineecosystemnecessary for its long-term maintenance.
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Consequently, boundaries have been drawn to protect the form and function of the entireestuarineecosystemnecessary for its long-term maintenance.
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Oysters have been long recognized as an especially important component of a healthy and resilientestuarineecosystem.
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Studies are aimed at determining the freshwater inflow amount necessary to maintain anestuarineecosystem.
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Modeling the annual production of intertidal benthic microalgae in estuarine ecosystems.
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The mixing of freshwater inflow and the marine water of theestuarineecosystemoccurs spatially and temporally from climatic influences including tidal action, seasonal variability and storms.
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Education programs focus on the importance of estuarine ecosystems.
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Sea level rise will cause a change of state from freshwater to marine or estuarine ecosystems, radically altering the composition of biotic communities.
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Estuarine ecosystems are among the most productive ecosystems on the planet.
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Humans are diverting water from rivers and streams, decreasing the amount of flows making it to estuarine ecosystems.
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These are useful as long-term scientific reference sites for understanding estuarine ecosystems and comparing them with other more disturbed habitats in similar physical settings.
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Estuarine ecosystems are fundamentally important and necessary to protect through the management of freshwater inflow because of the many ecosystem services they produce.
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Estuarine ecosystems need freshwater inflow to maintain their productivity, or to continue to produce biomass.
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