Abstract

Globally, estuaries are environments that are under increasing stressors from dense populations, pollutants, and changing ecosystems with pressures only likely to increase with climate change. Estuaries are systems with widely variable morphology that are typically spatially vast and highly dynamic, hence site-specific investigation is often costly and practically challenging. As such, conceptual approaches that allow the translation of information from one estuary to another due to similar classifications in conceptual models are widely used for management purposes. This paper will use case study examples to identify challenges associated with the current categorical estuary classification schemes and suggest alternate approaches that capture the varying dynamics of the full spectrum of estuary systems.

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