Proceedings of a Special Symposium: Coastal Watersheds and Their Effects on the ocean Environment Sponsored by The Southern California Academy of Sciences May 5, 1995

摘要

In the past century, the Southern California coastal zone, like many coastal zones in this country, has been changing from rural and agriculgural uses to urban and industrial, dramatically altering the nature of our watersheds and adjacent coastal shelves. This process has altered hydrologic patterns and associated movement of sediments, and has contributed to increased loads of pollutants washing from watersheds to offshore marine environments. In addition, natural events such as fires and floods, especially those we endured during 1995, have their own unique effects.