The coastal zone, consisting of the continental shelves to -200 m, including bays, lagoons, estuaries, and near-shore banks, is an environment that is strongly affected by two much bigger environmental reservoirs adjacent ...

The responses to human perturbations of the biogeochemical cycles of carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and oxygen (O) in the global coastal ocean were evaluated using a process-based model. In this model, the global coastal ocean ...