| Titre : | Estuaries and Coasts 35(5) - SEP 2012 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Kimberly A. Null, Auteur ;
Natasha T. Dimova, Auteur ;
Karen L. Knee, Auteur ;
Bradley K. Esser, Auteur ;
Peter W. Swarzenski, Auteur ;
Michael J. Singleton, Auteur ;
Mark Stacey, Auteur ;
Adina Paytan, Auteur
Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) was quantified at select sites in San Francisco Bay (SFB) from radium (Ra-223 and Ra-224) and radon (Rn-222) activities measured in groundwater and surface water using simple mass balance box models. Based o[...]
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N. Gomez, Auteur ;
M. Licursi, Auteur ;
D. E. Bauer, Auteur ;
E. S. Ambrosio, Auteur ;
A. Rodrigues Capitulo, Auteur
The aim of this study was to propose an index [Index of Biotic Integrity for the Rio de la Plata (IBIRP)] formulated from a minimum of information-rich metrics related to biological integrity for evaluation of the coastal freshwater tidal zone o[...]
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Neil K. Ganju, Auteur ;
Melanie Hayn, Auteur ;
Shih-Nan Chen, Auteur ;
Robert W. Howarth, Auteur ;
Patrick J. Dickhudt, Auteur ;
Alfredo L. Aretxabaleta, Auteur ;
Roxanne Marino, Auteur
Increased nutrient loading to estuaries has led to eutrophication, degraded water quality, and ecological transformations. Quantifying nutrient loads in systems with significant groundwater input can be difficult due to the challenge of measurin[...]
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Brian G. Sanderson, Auteur ;
Anna M. Redden, Auteur ;
Kylie Evans, Auteur
Twenty-one dilution method experiments were used to measure phytoplankton growth rate, grazing rate by microzooplankton, and phytoplankton concentrations that saturate grazing in Tuggerah Lake-a large lagoon in New South Wales, Australia. Indivi[...]
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Sophia E. Fox, Auteur ;
Mirta Teichberg, Auteur ;
Ivan Valiela, Auteur ;
Leanna Heffner, Auteur
Understanding whether nutrient availability and grazing by consumers can control macroalgal growth is important to mitigate blooms. To assess the effect of long-term nitrogen loading on macroalgae, we ran a field experiment in which we measured [...]
Article
Romina B. Ituarte, Auteur ;
Alejandro D'Anatro, Auteur ;
Tomas A. Luppi, Auteur ;
Pablo D. Ribeiro, Auteur ;
Eduardo D. Spivak, Auteur ;
Oscar O. Iribarne, Auteur ;
Enrique P. Lessa, Auteur
Phylogeographic patterns of the SW Atlantic estuarine crab Neohelice granulata were examined using mitochondrial DNA cytochrome oxidase I sequences and analyzed together with morphometric data. Specimens were sampled during a 4-year period (2001[...]
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Raquel Vaquer-Sunyer, Auteur ;
Carlos M. Duarte, Auteur ;
Gabriel Jorda, Auteur ;
Sergio Ruiz-Halpern, Auteur
Hypoxia is emerging as a major threat to marine coastal biota. Predicting its occurrence and elucidating the driving factors are essential to set successful management targets to avoid its occurrence. This study aims to elucidate the effects of [...]
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Timothy Quinn, Auteur ;
Kirk Krueger, Auteur ;
Ken Pierce, Auteur ;
Daniel Penttila, Auteur ;
Kurt Perry, Auteur ;
Tiffany Hicks, Auteur ;
Dayv Lowry, Auteur
Surf smelt Hypomesus pretiosus are an important part of the Salish Sea food web and obligate beach spawners, yet little is known about the spatiotemporal distribution of spawning and beach characteristics related to spawning success. We counted [...]
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John C. Callaway, Auteur ;
Evyan L. Borgnis, Auteur ;
R. Eugene Turner, Auteur ;
Charles S. Milan, Auteur
Tidal wetlands play an important role with respect to climate change because of both their sensitivity to sea-level rise and their ability to sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Policy-based interest in carbon sequestration has increas[...]
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Ana L. Hernandez Cordero, Auteur ;
Rochelle D. Seitz, Auteur ;
Romuald N. Lipcius, Auteur ;
Caitlin M. Bovery, Auteur ;
David M. Schulte, Auteur
Bay scallop (Argopecten irradians) populations existed in Chesapeake Bay until 1933, when they declined dramatically due to a loss of seagrass habitat. Since then, there have been no documented populations within the Bay. However, some anecdotal[...]
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M. R. Roman, Auteur ;
J. J. Pierson, Auteur ;
D. G. Kimmel, Auteur ;
W. C. Boicourt, Auteur ;
X. Zhang, Auteur
The northern Gulf of Mexico (NGOMEX) was surveyed to examine the broad-scale spatial patterns and inter-relationships between hypoxia (
Article
Kim de Mutsert, Auteur ;
James H. Cowan, Auteur
Since 1991, the Caernarvon Freshwater Diversion has been reintroducing Mississippi River water into a previously hydrologically isolated estuary in an effort to restore wetlands. To determine the effect of freshwater inflow on estuarine nekton c[...]
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Frederick J. Griffin, Auteur ;
Theresa DiMarco, Auteur ;
Karl L. Menard, Auteur ;
Joe A. Newman, Auteur ;
Edmund H. Smith, Auteur ;
Carol A. Vines, Auteur ;
Gary N. Cherr, Auteur
Pacific herring early life stages provide good model systems for studying effects of suspended sediments on estuarine organisms. To investigate effects on the herring larval stage, we used environmentally relevant particle concentrations for San[...]
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Mark Schuerch, Auteur ;
J. Rapaglia, Auteur ;
V. Liebetrau, Auteur ;
A. Vafeidis, Auteur ;
K. Reise, Auteur
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P. Li, Auteur ;
S. L. Yang, Auteur ;
J. D. Milliman, Auteur ;
K. H. Xu, Auteur ;
W. H. Qin, Auteur ;
C. S. Wu, Auteur ;
Y. P. Chen, Auteur ;
B. W. Shi, Auteur
To delineate temporal and spatial variations in suspended sediment concentration (SSC) in the Yangtze (Changjiang) Estuary and adjacent coastal waters, surface-water samples were taken twice daily from 10 stations over periods ranging from 2 to [...]
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Ylva S. Olsen, Auteur ;
Maria Sanchez-Camacho, Auteur ;
Nuria Marba, Auteur ;
Carlos M. Duarte, Auteur
We experimentally examined the effects of increased temperature on growth and demography of two Mediterranean seagrasses Posidonia oceanica and Cymodocea nodosa. Shoots of C. nodosa and seedlings and shoots of P. oceanica were kept in mesocosms [...]
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Ellen A. Raabe, Auteur ;
Laura C. Roy, Auteur ;
Carole C. McIvor, Auteur
Currently, mangroves dominate the tidal wetlands of Tampa Bay, Florida, but an examination of historic navigation charts revealed dominance of tidal marshes with a mangrove fringe in the 1870s. This study's objective was to conduct a new assessm[...]
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Mirela G. Tulbure, Auteur ;
Dana M. Ghioca-Robrecht, Auteur ;
Carol A. Johnston, Auteur ;
Dennis F. Whigham, Auteur
Nonnative Phragmites is among the most invasive plants in the U.S. Atlantic coast tidal wetlands, whereas the native Phragmites has declined. Native and nonnative patches growing side by side provided an ideal setting for studying mechanisms tha[...]
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Erica M. Banikas, Auteur ;
Jessica S. Thompson, Auteur
It is often presumed that salt marshes provide a predation refuge for small fishes, but predation risks have rarely been compared in intertidal and subtidal habitats, making the importance of salt marshes as a predation refuge speculative. We me[...]
