chapter 1 Coastal Lagoons Critical Habitats of Environmental Change -- chapter 2 Assessing the Response ofthe Pamlico Sound, North Carolina, USA to Human and Climatic Disturbances -- chapter 3 Sources and Fates of Nitrogen in Virginia Coastal Bays -- chapter 4 Ecosystem Health Indexed through Networks of Nitrogen Cycling -- chapter 5 Blooms in Lagoons:Different from Those of River-Dominated Estuaries -- chapter 6 Relationship between Macroinfaunal Diversity and Community Stability, anda Disturbance Caused by a Persistent Brown Tide Bloomin Laguna Madre, Texas -- chapter 7 The Choptank Basin in Transition -- chapter 8 Seagrass Decline in New Jersey Coastal Lagoons -- chapter 9 9Chapter Controls Acting on Benthic Macrophyte Communities in a Temperate and a Tropical Estuary -- chapter 10 1Chapter 0 Phase Shifts, Alternative Stable States, and the Status of Southern California Lagoons -- chapter 11 1Chapter 1 Lagoons of the Nile Delta -- chapter 12 1Chapter 2 Origins and Fate of Inorganic Nitrogen from Land to Coastal Ocean on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico -- chapter 13 1Chapter 3 Subtropical Karstic Coastal Lagoon Assessment, Southeast Mexico: The Yucatan Peninsula Case -- chapter 14 1Chapter 4 Seasonal and Interannual Variability of Planktonic Microbes in a Mesotidal Coastal Lagoon (Ria Formosa, SE Portugal): Impact of Climatic Changes and Local Human Influences -- chapter 15 1Chapter 5 A Comparison of Eutrophication Processes in Three Chinese Subtropical Semi-Enclosed Embayments with Different Buffering Capacities -- chapter 16 1Chapter 6 The Wadden Sea: A Coastal Ecosystem under Continuous Change -- chapter 17 1Chapter 7 The Patos Lagoon Estuary, Southern Brazil: Biotic Responses to Natural and Anthropogenic Impacts in the Last Decades (1979–2008) -- chapter 18 1Chapter 8 Structure and Function of Warm Temperate East Australian Coastal Lagoons: Implications for Natural and Anthropogenic Changes -- chapter 19 Response of the Venice Lagoon Ecosystem to Natural and Anthropogenic Pressures over the Last 50 Years -- chapter 20 Effect of Freshwater Inflow on Nutrient Loading and Macrobenthos Secondary Production in Texas Lagoons.