| Titre : | Estuaries and Coasts 38(3) - MAY 2015 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Eric L. Sparks, Auteur ;
Just Cebrian, Auteur
Grazing frequency, grazing intensity, plant health, and grazer abundances were examined under two different fertilization regimes and compared to unfertilized areas of Juncus roemerianus (black needlerush) marsh. These measurements were taken in[...]
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Juan G. Navedo, Auteur ;
Guillermo Fernández, Auteur ;
Juanita Fonseca, Auteur ;
Mark C. Drever, Auteur
Shrimp aquaculture farms have greatly expanded at tropical areas worldwide, especially during the past three decades. One of the main core areas of this expansion was the northwestern coast of Mexico, prompting conservation concern for the shore[...]
Article
Correigh M. Greene, Auteur ;
Kristan Blackhart, Auteur ;
Joe Nohner, Auteur ;
Allison Candelmo, Auteur ;
David Moe Nelson, Auteur
Estuaries provide vital habitat to a wide variety of fish species, so understanding how human activities impact estuarine habitats has important implications for management and conservation of fish stocks. We used nationwide datasets on anthropo[...]
Article
John A. Mohan, Auteur ;
Benjamin D. Walther, Auteur
Trace elements and stable isotopes are commonly used in chronologically formed biominerals as proxies of temperature and/or salinity in estuarine and marine environments. To accurately use the chemistry of biominerals as salinity proxies, unders[...]
Article
Benjamin D. Walther, Auteur ;
Megan K. Nims, Auteur
Understanding spatial and temporal variation in chemical constituents across salinity gradients is essential for using proxies to track riverine inflow, mixing processes, and migration of mobile fauna. We analyzed the freshwater endmembers and m[...]
Article
Alexandra C. G. Thomson, Auteur ;
Paul H. York, Auteur ;
Timothy M. Smith, Auteur ;
Craig D. H. Sherman, Auteur ;
David J. Booth, Auteur ;
Michael J. Keough, Auteur ;
D. Jeff Ross, Auteur ;
Peter I. Macreadie, Auteur
Resilience of seagrass meadows relies on the ability of seagrass to successfully recolonise denuded areas or disperse to new areas. While seed germination and rhizome extension have been explored as modes of recovery and expansion, the contribut[...]
Article
N. S. Banas, Auteur ;
L. Conway-Cranos, Auteur ;
D. A. Sutherland, Auteur ;
P. MacCready, Auteur ;
P. Kiffney, Auteur ;
M. Plummer, Auteur
Puget Sound is an estuarine inland sea fed by 14 major rivers and also strongly influenced by the nearby Fraser River. A comprehensive, particle-based reanalysis of an existing circulation model was used to map the area of influence of each of t[...]
Article
Brian Fry, Auteur ;
Dubravko Justic, Auteur ;
Philip Riekenberg, Auteur ;
Erick M. Swenson, Auteur ;
R. Eugene Turner, Auteur ;
Lixia Wang, Auteur ;
Lora Pride, Auteur ;
Nancy N. Rabalais, Auteur ;
Janis C. Kurtz, Auteur ;
John C. Lehrter, Auteur ;
Michael C. Murrell, Auteur ;
Elizabeth H. Shadwick, Auteur ;
Brandon Boyd, Auteur
Large-scale hypoxia regularly develops during the summer on the Louisiana continental shelf. Traditionally, hypoxia has been linked to the vast winter and spring nutrient inputs from the Mississippi River and its distributary, the Atchafalaya Ri[...]
Article
Brenda Walles, Auteur ;
Joao Salvador de Paiva, Auteur ;
Bram C. van Prooijen, Auteur ;
Tom Ysebaert, Auteur ;
Aad C. Smaal, Auteur
Ecosystem engineers that inhabit coastal and estuarine environments, such as reef building oysters, do not only stabilise the sediment within their reefs, but their influence might also extend far outside their reefs, affecting tidal flat morpho[...]
Article
Lauri Green, Auteur ;
Daniel T. Blumstein, Auteur ;
Peggy Fong, Auteur
Conservation of habitat for flagship species, such as birds, aids in the protection of biodiversity in critical ecosystems. Extensive mats of macroalgae stimulated by nutrient input to estuaries threaten critical successes in conservation made b[...]
Article
R. Azzoni, Auteur ;
D. Nizzoli, Auteur ;
M. Bartoli, Auteur ;
R. R. Christian, Auteur ;
P. Viaroli, Auteur
Benthic biogeochemical processes and their interactions are affected by multiple factors including organic matter load, season, and hydrology. We analyzed benthic biogeochemistry in two canals in the urban area of Venice (Italy), to assess the e[...]
Article
Avik Kumar Choudhury, Auteur ;
Mayukh Das, Auteur ;
Priscilla Philip, Auteur ;
Punyasloke Bhadury, Auteur
The present study aims at finding out the implications of seasonal precipitation in bringing about habitat variability in Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove ecoregion. This work takes into consideration datasets of 2010 and 2013 from a lon[...]
Article
Ping Wang, Auteur ;
Harry Wang, Auteur ;
Lewis Linker, Auteur
Article
Ilsa B. Kuffner, Auteur ;
Barbara H. Lidz, Auteur ;
J. Harold Hudson, Auteur ;
Jeffrey S. Anderson, Auteur
There is strong evidence that global climate change over the last several decades has caused shifts in species distributions, species extinctions, and alterations in the functioning of ecosystems. However, because of high variability on short (i[...]
Article
Ali M. Al-Aidaroos, Auteur ;
Mohsen M. O. El-Sherbiny, Auteur ;
Sathianeson Satheesh, Auteur ;
Gopikrishna Mantha, Auteur ;
Susana Agusti, Auteur ;
Beatriz Carreja, Auteur ;
Carlos M. Duarte, Auteur
The impacts of UV-B radiation to Red Sea coastal zooplankton was assessed experimentally at the time (May/June) of peak UV-B radiation, using the most abundant zooplankton species in the community (eight copepod genera, a cladoceran, an ostracod[...]
Article
Donald R. Cahoon, Auteur
A tide gauge records a combined signal of the vertical change (positive or negative) in the level of both the sea and the land to which the gauge is affixed; or relative sea-level change, which is typically referred to as relative sea-level rise[...]
Article
Leonardo Felipe Bairos Moreira, Auteur ;
Debora Schuck Knauth, Auteur ;
Leonardo Maltchik, Auteur
Naturally or mechanically opening the sand bar of intermittently closed estuaries (ICEs) plays an important role in the proper functioning of these systems. In this study, the impacts of artificial breaching of a coastal lagoon on anuran communi[...]
Article
Ralf Schwamborn, Auteur ;
Tommaso Giarrizzo, Auteur
Stable isotopes are widely used as tracers in food webs and as indicators of the trophic levels (TL) of consumers. The objectives of this study were to verify a possible ecosystem-wide increase in the relative contribution of the heavy isotope w[...]
Article
Anna M. Sawabini, Auteur ;
David R. Schlezinger, Auteur ;
Miles A. Sundermeyer, Auteur ;
Brian L. Howes, Auteur
Estuarine oxygen and regional meteorological conditions were studied for
Article
Zhuo-Yi Zhu, Auteur ;
Su-Mei Liu, Auteur ;
Ying Wu, Auteur ;
Ying Li, Auteur ;
Jing Zhang, Auteur ;
Jun Hu, Auteur
Phytoplankton succession along with salinity in estuaries not only influences the riverine ecosystem but also interferes our understanding of riverine materials (e.g., organic carbon) transport to the sea. Four cruises were conducted in a mid-si[...]
Article
Daniel R. Pratt, Auteur ;
Conrad A. Pilditch, Auteur ;
Andrew M. Lohrer, Auteur ;
Simon F. Thrush, Auteur ;
Casper Kraan, Auteur
The density, spatial structure and functional roles of macrofaunal and microphytobenthic (MPB) communities change across sedimentary gradients. Grazing by macrofauna can impose considerable top-down control on MPB biomass at the scale of the ani[...]
Article
Ping Wang, Auteur ;
Harry Wang, Auteur ;
Lewis Linker, Auteur
To analyze the correlations of summer anoxia/hypoxia in the Chesapeake Bay with watershed input and wind conditions, statistics were applied to nearly three decades of monitoring data. The results of Pearson correlation coefficients, multivariat[...]
Article
Alexandra Coello-Camba, Auteur ;
Susana Agusti, Auteur ;
Dolors Vaque, Auteur ;
Johnna Holding, Auteur ;
Jesus M. Arrieta, Auteur ;
Paul Wassmann, Auteur ;
Carlos M. Duarte, Auteur
We examined the responses of two different natural arctic plankton communities to warming in an attempt to find temperature thresholds for abrupt changes in growth or biomass. We conducted two experiments in situ using two different plankton com[...]
Article
M. S. Krishna, Auteur ;
S. A. Naidu, Auteur ;
Ch V. Subbaiah, Auteur ;
L. Gawade, Auteur ;
V. V. S. S. Sarma, Auteur ;
N. P. C. Reddy, Auteur
Major sources and distribution of organic matter (OM) were examined in a tropical monsoonal estuary, the Godavari, using content and isotopic signatures in suspended particulate matter and surface sediments during no-discharge period. The lower [...]
Article
W. A. Bennett, Auteur ;
J. R. Burau, Auteur
Migration strategies in estuarine fishes typically include behavioral adaptations for reducing energetic costs and mortality during travel to optimize reproductive success. The influence of tidal currents and water turbidity on individual moveme[...]
Article
Jessie C. Jarvis, Auteur ;
Kenneth A. Moore, Auteur
Seed germination and seedling establishment directly affect the resiliency of seagrasses to disturbance or environmental stress. The objectives of this study were to compare maximum seed germination, time to germination, nongerminated seed viabi[...]
Article
Michael R. Lowe, Auteur ;
Mark S. Peterson, Auteur
Coastal salt marsh landscapes have undergone rapid urbanization that may impact the suitability of salt marsh ecosystems for the maintenance and regulation of estuarine faunal communities. This paper examines the body condition (a surrogate for [...]
Article
Ketil Koop-Jakobsen, Auteur ;
Frank Wenzhoefer, Auteur
Belowground sediment oxygenation in rhizospheres of wetland plants promotes nutrient uptake, serve as protection against toxic reduced compounds and play an important role in wetland nutrient cycling. The presence of 1.5-mm-wide oxic zones aroun[...]
Article
Arantza Iriarte, Auteur ;
Fernando Villate, Auteur ;
Ibon Uriarte, Auteur ;
Lara Alberdi, Auteur ;
Lander Intxausti, Auteur
Dissolved oxygen dynamics in estuarine and coastal environments are complex and highly variable, which highlight the need to compile information from many different types of estuaries. Small estuaries where euhaline habitats dominate are particu[...]
Article
Edward J. Phlips, Auteur ;
Susan Badylak, Auteur ;
Margaret A. Lasi, Auteur ;
Robert Chamberlain, Auteur ;
Whitney C. Green, Auteur ;
Lauren M. Hall, Auteur ;
Jane A. Hart, Auteur ;
Jean C. Lockwood, Auteur ;
Janice D. Miller, Auteur ;
Lori J. Morris, Auteur ;
Joel S. Steward, Auteur
Relationships between shifts in climatic and other environmental conditions and changes in the character and dynamics of phytoplankton blooms were examined in three interconnected subtropical lagoons on the east coast of Florida, i.e., Mosquito [...]
