| Titre : | Estuaries and Coasts 38(6) - NOV 2015 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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C. Tong, Auteur ;
C. X. She, Auteur ;
P. Yang, Auteur ;
Y. F. Jin, Auteur ;
J. F. Huang, Auteur
Methane production is influenced by the abundance of methanogens and the availability of substrates. Sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) also play an important role in the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter. However, the relationships between[...]
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Allison S. McInnes, Auteur ;
Clifton C. Nunnally, Auteur ;
Gilbert T. Rowe, Auteur ;
Randall W. Davis, Auteur ;
Antonietta Quigg, Auteur
Prince William Sound supports many commercially and culturally important species. The phytoplankton community dynamics which support and sustain the high biomass and diversity of this ecosystem are largely unknown. The aim of this study was to d[...]
Article
Lorena Basso, Auteur ;
Iris E. Hendriks, Auteur ;
Carlos M. Duarte, Auteur
In the course of this century, rising anthropogenic CO2 emissions will likely cause a decrease in ocean pH, know as ocean acidification, together with an increase of water temperature. Only in the last years, studies have focused on synergetic e[...]
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Jessica M. Reeves, Auteur ;
Deborah Haynes, Auteur ;
Adriana Garcia, Auteur ;
Peter A. Gell, Auteur
Estuaries are defined by change; both on a diurnal basis, balancing tidal inflow with riverine outflow, and over hundreds or thousands of years through geomorphic evolution and sea level variability. However, contemporary management and protecti[...]
Article
Mahealani Y. Kaneshiro-Pineiro, Auteur ;
David G. Kimmel, Auteur
Sea nettles, Chrysaora quinquecirrha, have been observed annually in the Neuse River Estuary (NRE), an area of substantial recreation in North Carolina. The purpose of this study was to evaluate what environmental factors may affect jellyfish ab[...]
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Mark J. McCarthy, Auteur ;
Silvia E. Newell, Auteur ;
Stephen A. Carini, Auteur ;
Wayne S. Gardner, Auteur
Nutrient loads from the Mississippi River watershed are associated with seasonal development of bottom-water hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Microbial nitrogen (N) transformations at the sediment-water interface are important in determin[...]
Article
J. K. Morton, Auteur ;
E. J. Ward, Auteur ;
K. C. de Berg, Auteur
Mechanical beach cleaning occurs worldwide on heavily urbanised beaches to remove litter and decomposing macroalgae from impacting tourism and recreation. This study investigated the potential small- (100 s of metres) and large-scale (kms) ecolo[...]
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Kylie H. Bloodsworth, Auteur ;
Charles E. Tilburg, Auteur ;
Philip O. Yund, Auteur
Larvae of most coastal marine invertebrates develop through a series of pelagic stages in the inner shelf regions where they are subject to strong velocity fields, including buoyancy-driven flows from river plumes. Taxon-specific larval behavior[...]
Article
Maureen A. Downing-Kunz, Auteur ;
David H. Schoellhamer, Auteur
Evidence of decreasing sediment supply to estuaries and coastal oceans worldwide illustrates the need for accurate and updated estimates. In the San Francisco Estuary (Estuary), recent research suggests a decrease in supply from its largest trib[...]
Article
Peter Vermeiren, Auteur ;
Katya Abrantes, Auteur ;
Marcus Sheaves, Auteur
Intertidal crabs are abundant, key components of tropical estuaries whose trophic interactions provide a direct and identifiable link within the ecosystem. Our study investigated spatial variability in food resource use of intertidal crabs, usin[...]
Article
Jianfeng Wang, Auteur ;
Daniel G. MacDonald, Auteur ;
Philip M. Orton, Auteur ;
Kelly Cole, Auteur ;
Jian Lan, Auteur
Data from three deployments of a 1200 kHz moored Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) were used to study the factors affecting turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) production in the lift-off zone of a mid-sized river plume (Merrimack River, Newbur[...]
Article
Matthew B. Ogburn, Auteur ;
Leigh C. Habegger, Auteur
Stocks of estuarine migrant species can be challenging to assess due to a relative lack of abundance data in offshore areas and complex interactions between spawning behavior and estuarine geomorphology. The blue crab Callinectes sapidus in the [...]
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Hamlet Perez-Villalona, Auteur ;
Jeffrey C. Cornwell, Auteur ;
Jorge R. Ortiz-Zayas, Auteur ;
Elvira Cuevas, Auteur
Direct measurements of net N-2 production, oxygen, and inorganic nutrient fluxes at the sediment-water interface were conducted in the San Jos, Lagoon (SJL), a tropical coastal lagoon located at the San Juan Bay Estuary, Puerto Rico, that is hea[...]
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T. Reid Nelson, Auteur ;
Dennis R. DeVries, Auteur ;
Russell A. Wright, Auteur ;
Joel E. Gagnon, Auteur
The Gulf killifish, Fundulus grandis, is a vital component of saltmarsh ecosystems and an indicator species for environmental impacts, because of strong site fidelity. Also, their otoliths can provide a record of environmental conditions because[...]
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David K. Ralston, Auteur ;
Michael L. Brosnahan, Auteur ;
Sophia E. Fox, Auteur ;
Krista D. Lee, Auteur ;
Donald M. Anderson, Auteur
A highly resolved, 3D model of hydrodynamics and Alexandrium fundyense in an estuarine embayment has been developed to investigate the physical and biological controls on a recurrent harmful algal bloom. Nauset estuary on Cape Cod (MA, USA) cons[...]
Article
Elody Isnard, Auteur ;
Jennifer Tournois, Auteur ;
David J. McKenzie, Auteur ;
Franck Ferraton, Auteur ;
Nathalie Bodin, Auteur ;
Catherine Aliaume, Auteur ;
Audrey M. Darnaude, Auteur
Temperate coastal lagoons are considered key habitats for several highly prized marine fishes, which colonise them as nurseries. Lagoons can, however, exhibit diverse abiotic and biotic conditions, with potential consequences for their quality a[...]
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Yun Li, Auteur ;
Ming Li, Auteur ;
W. Michael Kemp, Auteur
A coupled hydrodynamic-dissolved oxygen model is developed to simulate the seasonal cycle of dissolved oxygen (DO) in Chesapeake Bay and investigate processes regulating summer hypoxia in the estuary. A budget analysis of DO in the bottom water [...]
Article
Qiyuan Liu, Auteur ;
G. Christopher Shank, Auteur
Solar radiation-enhanced dissolution (photodissolution) of particulate organic matter (POM) has the potential to provide a substantial pool of dissolved organic matter (DOM) to surrounding waters in a variety of aquatic systems. This study focus[...]
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Marc Russell, Auteur ;
Holly Greening, Auteur
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Samuel J. Lake, Auteur ;
Mark J. Brush, Auteur
The seasonal formation of periodic hypoxia within tributary estuaries is influenced by multiple nutrient and organic matter sources, both autochthonous and allochthonous. In contrast to lakes and flowing rivers, allochthonous inputs to estuaries[...]
Article
Jennifer L. Ruesink, Auteur ;
Sylvia Yang, Auteur ;
Alan C. Trimble, Auteur
Because photosynthesis requires CO2, carbon limitation in aquatic environments could restrict primary production and provide signals in tissue chemistry. We took advantage of spatial variability of aqueous [CO2] in estuaries to examine within-es[...]
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Brian J. Roberts, Auteur ;
Susan M. Doty, Auteur
Benthic respiration and nutrient flux rates were quantified during four distinct periods (spring peak in river discharge, summer period of offshore hypoxia, autumn period after breakdown of offshore hypoxia, and the non-hypoxic winter period) ov[...]
Article
Michael S. Kearney, Auteur ;
C. Alexis Riter, Auteur ;
R. Eugene Turner, Auteur
We respond to Nyman's (2014) critique of Kearney et al. (2011). Kearney et al. analyzed the vegetative cover for three river diversions to examine their efficacy to conserve or restore coastal wetlands. Nyman (2014) identifies six areas of criti[...]
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Lauri Green, Auteur ;
Brian E. Lapointe, Auteur ;
Dale E. Gawlik, Auteur
Nutrient enrichment continues to disrupt marine ecosystem function worldwide. Assessing eutrophication in seagrass ecosystems such as the Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge (GWHNWR), Florida Keys is critical for protecting the diverse co[...]
Article
Madeline Wedge, Auteur ;
Christopher J. Anderson, Auteur ;
Dennis DeVries, Auteur
Urbanization can impact coastal fisheries by reducing the quality of important habitats, including salt marshes. Similarly, increased urban land use surrounding tidal creeks can impact the health of fish by changing salinities, altering habitat [...]
Article
Susana Flecha, Auteur ;
I. Emma Huertas, Auteur ;
Gabriel Navarro, Auteur ;
Edward P. Morris, Auteur ;
Javier Ruiz, Auteur
Estuaries are hotspots of intense biogeochemical cycling that regulate land-ocean exchanges and support a broad range of ecosystem services. They are a particularly important, still under-resolved, component of the global carbon cycle and often [...]
Article
Cathleen Wigand, Auteur ;
Earl Davey, Auteur ;
Roxanne Johnson, Auteur ;
Karen Sundberg, Auteur ;
James Morris, Auteur ;
Paul Kenny, Auteur ;
Erik Smith, Auteur ;
Matt Holt, Auteur
Soil organic matter, roots, rhizomes, and carbon dioxide (CO2) emission rates were examined in minerogenic marshes of the North Inlet Estuary, a system dominated by sediment depositional processes and typical of the Southeast USA. Three marsh si[...]
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Jennifer Gordon, Auteur ;
Michael Arbeider, Auteur ;
David Scott, Auteur ;
Samantha M. Wilson, Auteur ;
Jonathan W. Moore, Auteur
Floodgates are common flood control structures in coastal river systems, which allow tributary drainage into river main stems and decrease flooding risk of land upstream of diking systems. Floodgates have been shown to impact upstream aquatic ha[...]
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Jessica Riekenberg, Auteur ;
Sibel Bargu, Auteur ;
Robert Twilley, Auteur
River water entering estuaries affects the physical and chemical environment at irregular intervals creating a highly dynamic aquatic habitat. Phytoplankton are important primary producers in estuaries that respond quickly to their changing envi[...]
Article
John M. Marton, Auteur ;
Brian J. Roberts, Auteur ;
Anne E. Bernhard, Auteur ;
Anne E. Giblin, Auteur
We quantified nitrification potential and ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) abundances in 13 salt marshes in three regions across southeast Louisiana (Terrebonne Bay, western and eastern regions of Barataria Ba[...]
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G. V. Wright, Auteur ;
R. M. Wright, Auteur ;
P. S. Kemp, Auteur
Tide gates form a temporal barrier to fish migration, closing during the flood tide and opening during the ebb, primarily for flood prevention and land reclamation. Their impact on downstream adult migration of the critically endangered European[...]
Article
Wenwu Zhu, Auteur ;
Jiufa Li, Auteur ;
Lawrence P. Sanford, Auteur
The Changjiang river sediment supply has decreased dramatically since 2003 when the Three Gorges Dam (TGD) began operation. Annually repeated cruises were conducted in the Changjiang estuary between 2002 and 2011 to examine the behavior of suspe[...]
Article
David R. Smith, Auteur ;
Timothy J. Robinson, Auteur
A Delaware Bay, USA, standardized survey of spawning horseshoe crabs, Limulus polyphemus, was carried out in 1999 -aEuro parts per thousand 2013 through a citizen science network. Previous trend analyses of the data were at the state (DE or NJ) [...]
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Peter M. Yates, Auteur ;
Michelle R. Heupel, Auteur ;
Andrew J. Tobin, Auteur ;
Colin A. Simpfendorfer, Auteur
Understanding spatio-temporal patterns in shark occurrence is critical for assessing the ecological role of a species, its vulnerability to human impacts and environmental change, and the efficacy of conservation and management strategies. Inves[...]
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Tyge D. Hermansen, Auteur ;
David G. Roberts, Auteur ;
Marijana Toben, Auteur ;
Todd E. Minchinton, Auteur ;
David J. Ayre, Auteur
Anthropogenic impacts contribute to the fragmentation of urban mangrove forests, and in the Sydney region of Australia, Avicennia marina is commonly found in small stands of
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Melisa C. Wong, Auteur ;
Michael Dowd, Auteur
Functional diversity (FD) characterizes the role of species within communities based on their morphological, behavioural and life history traits. Taxonomic diversity is not always a surrogate for FD, and ecosystem functioning is more dependent o[...]
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Lawrence P. Rozas, Auteur ;
Thomas J. Minello, Auteur
Nekton on the northern Gulf of Mexico depend on estuarine nursery areas, but patterns of habitat use and the underlying processes that drive these patterns are not fully understood. We examined small-scale (1-50 m) patterns of habitat use in Bar[...]
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S. Ye, Auteur ;
E. A. Laws, Auteur ;
N. Yuknis, Auteur ;
X. Ding, Auteur ;
H. Yuan, Auteur ;
G. Zhao, Auteur ;
J. Wang, Auteur ;
X. Yu, Auteur ;
S. Pei, Auteur ;
R. D. DeLaune, Auteur
Rates of accumulation of particulate organic carbon (POC) and particulate inorganic carbon (PIC) as well as soil accretion rates were determined in the Yellow River Delta (YRD) and Liaohe Delta (LHD) in northeastern China. Rates of carbon accumu[...]
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Douglas E. Pirhalla, Auteur ;
Scott C. Sheridan, Auteur ;
Varis Ransibrahmanakul, Auteur ;
Cameron C. Lee, Auteur
Water temperature is considered both a controlling and lethal factor in coastal ecosystems, influencing behavioral and physiological responses in marine organisms. Abrupt weather events such as severe cold front passages and accompanied changes [...]
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Lorena Basso, Auteur ;
Iris E. Hendriks, Auteur ;
Alejandro B. Rodriguez-Navarro, Auteur ;
Maria C. Gambi, Auteur ;
Carlos M. Duarte, Auteur
Predicted pH decreases in ocean surface waters of similar to 0.3-0.5 and 0.7-0.8 pH units (for 2100 and 2300, respectively) are expected to negatively affect calcification processes and physiological performances of many marine organisms. Here w[...]
