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The term “estuary” itself is derived from the latina aestus, meaning tide and hence aestuarium, a tidal arm of the sea. However, the term as presently- employed adds to this the concept of freshwater input, to create a region of brackish water. Remane (1971) recognised seven types of brackish-water environment, namely (i) brackish seas such as the Baltic, (ii) estuaries where a river meets the sea, (iii) fjords in mountain valleys, (iv) lagoons, where the free access to the sea has been cut off by a sand bar, (v) shore pools, both on rocky and on sandy or muddy shores, (vi) salt marshes, at high level but still within the range of the tides, and finally (vii) coastal ground waters, where freshwater input comes from groundwater seeping out into the sea.
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Wilson, J.G. (1988). Introduction. In: The Biology of Estuarine Management. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7087-1_1
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