Recent Research Results on Groundwater Resources and Saltwater Intrusion in a Changing Environment

Maurizio Polemio; Kristine Walraevens

doi:10.3390/w11061118

Recent Research Results on Groundwater Resources and Saltwater Intrusion in a Changing Environment

Water ◽

10.3390/w11061118 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (6) ◽

pp. 1118 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Maurizio Polemio ◽

Kristine Walraevens

Keyword(s):

Global Change ◽

Groundwater Resources ◽

Anthropogenic Pressure ◽

Special Issue ◽

Negative Effects ◽

Changing Environment ◽

Coastal Groundwater ◽

The Pacific ◽

The Pacific Ocean ◽

Management Approaches

This Special Issue presents the work of 30 scientists of 11 countries. It confirms that the impacts of global change, resulting from both climate change and increasing anthropogenic pressure, are huge on worldwide coastal areas (and very particularly on some islands of the Pacific Ocean), with highly negative effects on coastal groundwater resources, widely affected by seawater intrusion. Some improved research methods are proposed in the contributions: using innovative hydrogeological, geophysical, and geochemical monitoring; assessing impacts of the changing environment on the coastal groundwater resources in terms of quantity and quality; and using modelling, especially to improve management approaches. The scientific research needed to face these challenges must continue to be deployed by different approaches based on the monitoring, modeling, and management of groundwater resources. Novel and more efficient methods must be developed to keep up with the accelerating pace of global change.

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Checklist of eels of Taiwan (orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes): An update

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4454.1.3 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4454 (1) ◽

pp. 5

Author(s):

HSUAN-CHING HO ◽

DAVID G. SMITH ◽

KENNETH A. TIGHE ◽

YUSUKE HIBINO ◽

JOHN E. MCCOSKER

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Pacific Ocean ◽

New Genus ◽

Special Issue ◽

The Pacific ◽

The World ◽

The Pacific Ocean

The eel fauna (orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes) of Taiwan is increased to 14 families, 79 genera and 232 species. Previous studies (Ho et al., 2015b, c) showed Taiwan had the highest diversity of eels in the world: this is further supported in the present updated work. Elsewhere in this volume, 16 species are newly described and 13 species are newly added to the Taiwanese ichthyofauna, mainly in the families Congridae and Synaphobranchidae. In addition, one new genus and four new species are described from adjacent waters in the Pacific Ocean. A total of 58 new species of the two eel orders are described from Taiwan; 52 of them are valid, and 37 are only found in Taiwan. Four names previously recorded in Taiwan are described as new in present special issue and are removed from the fauna of Taiwan accordingly. This work provides a foundation for the study of eel diversity in Taiwan.

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Introduction: The New Scramble for the Pacific: A Frontier Approach

Pacific Affairs ◽

10.5509/202194157 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 94 (1) ◽

pp. 57-76

Author(s):

Elodie Fache ◽

Pierre-Yves Le Meur ◽

Estienne Rodary

Keyword(s):

Pacific Ocean ◽

Marine Biodiversity ◽

Marine Resources ◽

Pacific Island ◽

Special Issue ◽

Island States ◽

The Pacific ◽

The Pacific Ocean ◽

Pacific Island States ◽

External Powers

Over the last decades, the Pacific Ocean has been the locus of an unequalled rush for space and resources involving intertwined public and corporate interests, external powers, and Pacific Island states and territories. This rush is driven by three intersecting motivations aiming to: (1) exploit marine resources; (2) protect marine biodiversity and mitigate the effects of climate change; and (3) establish sovereignties over marine spaces. In this context, the fluidity of saltwater environments gives rise to specific issues of enforcement, control, and governance. This special issue examines these reconfigurations of/in the Pacific Ocean, stressing potentially conflicting frontier processes, in the light of a structuring tension between trends of ocean grabbing and ocean commoning.

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