Land-Ocean Connectivity: from Hydrological to Ecological
Understanding of Groundwater Effects in the Coastal Zone
A Europole Mer Gordon-like conference. Aber Wrac’h, Brittany, France
25-27 September 2012
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1. Title
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Land-Ocean Connectivity: what are the major scientific challenges?
2. Authors
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Peterson Jennifer1, Cordell Peter and Tiburon Maya.
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Facultad de Ciencias del Mar, 35017 Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
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Land-Ocean Connectivity: what are the major scientific challenges?
Peterson Jennifer1, Cordell Peter and Tiburon Maya.
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Facultad de Ciencias del Mar, 35017 Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
name@email.address
The coastal zone, where fresh and saltwater meet, hosts some of the most dynamic, diverse and productive
ecosystems on Earth. These ecosystems experience significant pressure from human activities, responding to
direct and indirect human disturbance and to climatic-hydrologic variability. Hydrological land-ocean
connectivity is an important driver of these ecosystems. It greatly affects coastal ecosystem processes such as
nutrient cycling, algal and zooplankton community dynamics, ecosystem metabolism or food web dynamics.
The critical role of surface water discharge from rivers to coastal ecosystems has been well documented. In
the past decade or so, the hidden subsurface flow of coastal (intertidal and submarine) groundwater discharge
and associated geochemical and hydrological processes have received an increasing amount of scientific
attention.