ECSA 58 - EMECS 13
Estuaries and coastal seas in the Anthropocene

Abstracts are now invited on the following topics. They should be submitted using the online abstract submission system.
Abstract Submission Deadline: 27 March 2020.

We invite contributions within the following broad topics, covering the diversity of threats and opportunities facing estuarine, coastal and marine ecosystems and the people they support.

• Physical, chemical and ecological structure and functioning
• Hydrodynamics and hydrology, including modelling
• Adequacy of modelling and prediction of change
• Endogenic Managed Pressures and Exogenic Unmanaged Pressures
• Interference with connectivity across and between systems
• Repercussions of the loss of resources (space, energy, water, etc.)
• Loss and gain of habitats and ecosystems
• Recovery, restoration and creation of habitats and populations
• Recovering and increasing resilience to future changes
• Urbanisation and industrialisation of estuaries and semi-enclosed seas
• Ecosystem Services and Societal Goods & Benefits
• Blue Growth and Green Growth – maximising benefits and minimising impacts
• Governance and adaptive management – from the local to the global
• Holistic approach to successful and sustainable management
• Coping with moving baselines
• Science-Policy communication

Anthropogenic pressure

• 0006 Contaminated estuaries and coastal seas
• 0021 Human forcing and constraints in the coast-estuarine system
• 0027 Double whammy: impact of pollution and climate change on urbanised estuaries
• 0048 Structure and function of artificially created semi-enclosed coastal ecosystems
• 0052 The Wadden Sea ecosystem: Human impacts, management concepts and challenges for the future
• 0055 Sediment management in estuaries – from minimizing ecological impacts to possible win-win situations

Biodiversity and biological conservation

• 0046 Monitoring organisms in estuarine and coastal areas by new technologies

Climate adaptation and mitigation

• 0039 Secrets exposed by coastal change: Promoting the role of marine and coastal heritage in climate change adaptation strategies

Coastal Conservation

• 0031 Lessons learnt from conservation/restoration actions of coastal dune habitats

Coastal development and engineering

• 0050 Future proofing sea defences to enhance biodiversity
• 0051 Studying the impact of human interventions on estuarine hydrodynamics and sediment transport in environmental impact assessments

Coastal marine habitats

• 0053 Coastal wetland adaptation to global sea level rise

Ecological Modelling

• 0024 Ecological Network Analysis: Theory and Application

Ecosystem creation and restoration

• 0035 EMECS Special Session "ICM and Satoumi"
• 0049 Integrated estuarine restoration planning: from local case studies to global sustainable management.

Ecosystem health

• 0056 Eat up your greens – our changing views on Eutrophication, impacts and assessment guidelines

Fragile ecosystems and hotspot management

• 0033 Science and management of the marine environment around coastal islands and archipelagos
• 0043 Mangrove Ecosystem, Bio resources and Sustainable Development

Innovative technology for ecological sustainability

• 0038 Application of DNA-metabarcoding for ecosystem health assessment

Integrating socio-economics and ecology

• 0057 Marine and coastal spatial planning in the changing time: science-policy interaction

Other

• 0007 Contribution of Universities to Sustainable Development Goal Life Below Water
• 0018 Appropriate solutions to face ocean problems, in support to a better marine management
• 0023 Operationalising a systems approach to manage estuaries and coastal areas
• 0025 Shifts in coastal wetland ecosystem functioning: evidences from historical and palaeoclimatic records
• 0036 Biophysics
• 0040 From the River Source to the Sea: River-Sea Systems under Global Change

Rivers, catchments and wetlands

• 0047 Stability, change and ecosystem services in coastal wetlands

Sustainability and resilience

• 0041 Mega-deltas vs bay areas: Anthropodynamics