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Shifting nutrient limitation and eutrophication effects in marsh vegetation across estuarine salinity gradients 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Caitlin Mullan Crain 《Estuaries and Coasts》2007,30(1):26-34
In light of widespread coastal eutrophication, identifying which nutrients limit vegetation and the community consequences
when limitation is relaxed is critical to maintaining the health of estuarine marshes. Studies in temperate salt marshes have
generally identified nitrogen (N) as the primary limiting nutrient for marsh vegetation, but the limiting nutrient in low
salinity tidal marshes is unknown. I use a 3-yr nutrient addition experiment in mid elevation,Spartina patens dominated marshes that vary in salinity along two estuaries in southern Maine to examine variation in nutrient effects. Nutrient
limitation shifted across estuarine salinity gradients; salt and brackish marsh vegetation was N limited, while oligohaline
marsh vegetation was co-limited by N and phosphorus (P). Plant tissue analysis ofS. patens showed plants in the highest salinity marshes had the greatest percent N, despite N limitation, suggesting that N limitation
in salt marshes is partially driven by a high demand for N to aid in salinity tolerance. Fertilization had little effect on
species composition in monospecificS. patents stands of salt and brackish marshes, but N+P treatments in species-rich oligohaline marshes significantly altered community
composition, favoring dominance by high aboveground producing plants. Eutrophication by both N and P has the potential to
greatly reduce the characteristic high diversity of oligohaline marshes. Inputs of both nutrients in coastal watersheds must
be managed to protect the diversity and functioning of the full range of estuarine marshes. 相似文献
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This paper problematises positivist framings of water demand management (WDM) that define the average‐water‐user. Through a situated, case‐study account undertaken in suburban Auckland, we highlight variable social and cultural underpinnings of domestic water use. Activities that are commonly the focus of WDM are shown to be embedded elements of life around which relationships, affects and futures are woven. As a consequence, myopically focusing on the technical–managerial mediation of what are socionatural relations reduces prospects to achieve intended policy outcomes. Reframing WDM as a hydrosocial process provides a basis for water providers to develop more culturally appropriate water management. 相似文献
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How do sediment yields from post‐wildfire debris‐laden flows depend on terrain slope,soil burn severity class,and drainage basin area? Insights from airborne‐LiDAR change detection
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We derived a high‐resolution, spatially continuous map of erosion and deposition associated with the debris‐laden flows triggered by the 2011 Las Conchas wildfire and subsequent rainstorms over a 197 km2 area in New Mexico, USA. This map was produced using airborne‐LiDAR‐derived bare‐earth digital elevation models (DEMs) acquired approximately one year before and one year after the wildfire. Differencing of the pre‐wildfire and post‐wildfire‐and‐rainstorm bare‐earth DEMs yielded a DEM‐of‐difference (DoD) map that quantifies the magnitude of ground‐surface elevation changes due to erosion/deposition within each 1 m2 pixel. We applied a 0.3 m threshold filter to our DoD to remove changes that could have been due to artifacts and/or imperfect georeferencing. The 0.3 m value for the threshold filter was chosen based on the stated accuracy of the LiDAR as well as a comparison of areas of significant topographic change mapped in aerial photographs with those predicted using a range of candidate threshold values for the DoD filter. We developed an automated procedure that accepts the DoD map as input and computes, for every pixel in the DEM, the net sediment volume exported through each pixel by colluvial and/or fluvial processes using a digital routing algorithm. An analysis of the resulting sediment volume map for the Las Conchas fire demonstrates that sediment volume is proportional to upstream contributing area. After normalized by contributing area, the average sediment yield (defined as the sediment volume divided by the contributing area) increases as a power‐law functions of the average terrain slope and soil burn severity class (SBSC) with exponents equal to approximately 1.5. Our analysis quantifies the relationships among sediment yield, average terrain slope, and average soil burn severity class at the watershed scale and should prove useful for predicting the geomorphic response of wildfire‐affected drainage basins. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 相似文献
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Ecophenotypic responses of benthic foraminifera to oxygen availability along an oxygen gradient in the California Borderland
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Spatial variation in environmental conditions can elicit predictable size and morphological responses in marine organisms through influences on physiology. Thus, spatial and temporal variation in marine organism size and shape are often used to infer paleoenvironmental conditions, such as dissolved oxygen concentrations. Benthic foraminifera commonly serve as a tool for reconstructing past ocean oxygen levels. For example, benthic foraminiferal species assemblages, within‐ and among‐species patterns of test morphology, and geochemical analyses of carbonate tests are often employed to reconstruct past marine conditions. In this study, we measured the sizes and shapes of modern foraminifera representing four species that inhabit a steep oxygen gradient in the Santa Monica Basin on the Southern California Borderland with the aim of quantifying the influence of oxygen availability on foraminiferal morphology, both within and among species. Most foraminifera rely on aerobic respiration, but the four benthic foraminifera from the Santa Monica Basin do not show the predicted size and morphological responses to variations in dissolved oxygen concentrations based on first principles of cell physiology: Bolivina spissa shows no volume or volume‐to‐surface area response, Uvigerina peregrina increases in both test volume and volume‐to‐surface area ratio with decreasing dissolved oxygen concentrations, and both Bolivina argentea and Loxostomum pseudobeyrichi decrease in test volume, but only L. pseudobeyrichi shows a decrease in test volume‐to‐surface area ratio with decreasing oxygen concentrations as expected from physiological predictions. These findings imply that the morphological responses of individual foraminiferal species are not necessarily representative of the responses of other foraminiferal species within the community. Our findings further suggest that these species use physiological strategies such as depressed metabolic rates and alternative energy metabolisms to persist in low oxygen environments and, therefore, cannot be used in any simple way as paleo‐oxygen indicators. Should Proterozoic (1,000–542 million years ago) protists have possessed metabolic strategies similar to foraminifera, the sizes and shapes of protists in the fossil record may not usefully constrain ambient oxygen conditions during the appearance and initial taxonomic radiation of heterotrophic eukaryotes. 相似文献
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Resource subsidy regimes, which range from presses to pulses, are common structuring forces in communities, yet research contrasting their effects is lacking. Many coastal marine ecosystems, including estuaries and coral reefs, have experienced increased nutrient subsidies while concurrently shifting to macroalgal dominance; however, the role of subsidy regime in transitions remains unknown. We created concentration–frequency distributions of nutrients in Cook’s Bay, Moorea, French Polynesia, and Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, CA, USA. Both showed relatively high pulses interspersed by press concentrations. We grew dominant macroalgae alone and together in microcosms approximating these subsidy regimes to quantify individual performance and competitive outcomes. Subsidy regime changed growth and competitive abilities of macroalgae from both ecosystems but with divergent effects. In nutrient-limited reefs, different species were favoured under each enrichment regime, suggesting a fluctuating nutrient environment enhances diversity. In contrast, in eutrophic estuaries, enrichment of both regimes facilitated a single competitive dominant, suppressing diversity. Functional form groups did not predict responses to subsidy regime, likely because classifications ignore temporal variability in resource supplies. Because climate change will alter rainfall patterns globally, further accelerating nutrient subsidies from land to sea, understanding species’ responses to nutrient subsidy regimes is key to predicting the fate of coastal communities. 相似文献
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Caitlin L. Young Iain M. Suthers Daniel D. Johnson Charles A. Gray Faith A. Ochwada-Doyle 《Estuaries and Coasts》2018,41(2):444-452
Lunar phase is regarded as a key driver of reproductive development and spawning activity in prawns, but across smaller-temporal scales, other processes may have a significant influence. Here, we examined the effects of lunar phase and other abiotic variables on the reproductive development of an estuarine-dependent prawn, Metapenaeus bennettae Racek & Dall. We found that turbidity, salinity, water temperature and lunar phase each had a significant independent influence on the likelihood of female prawns being ripe throughout the spawning period. The likelihood of catching a ripe female increased on the new moon and first quarter of the moon and also during conditions of low turbidity, high salinity and high water temperature. For male prawns, however, significant interactions between salinity and lunar phase and also between turbidity and lunar phase were detected. These interactions indicated that salinity and turbidity have variable effects among the different lunar phases. Such complex relationships of reproductive timing and spawning success of M. bennettae, and potentially other aquatic species, are most likely adaptive responses to the highly variable conditions of estuarine environments. 相似文献
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In 1979, the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) published Sheet 5.17 in the Fifth Edition of its series of global
bathymetric maps. Sheet 5.17 covered the northern polar region above 64° N, and was for long the authoritative portrayal of
Arctic bathymetry. The GEBCO compilation team had access to an extremely sparse sounding database from the central Arctic
Ocean, due to the difficulty of mapping in this permanently ice covered region. In the past decade, there has been a substantial
increase in the database of central Arctic Ocean bathymetry, due to the declassification of sounding data collected by US
and British Navy nuclear submarines, and to the capability of modern icebreakers to measure ocean depths in heavy ice conditions.
From these data sets, evidence has mounted to indicate that many of the smaller (and some larger) bathymetric features of
Sheet 5.17 were poorly or wrongly defined. Within the framework of the project to construct the International Bathymetric
Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO), all available historic and modern data sets were compiled to create a digital bathymetric
model. In this paper, we compare both generally and in detail the contents of GEBCO Sheet 5.17 and version 1.0 of IBCAO, two
bathymetric portrayals that were created more than 20 years apart. The results should be helpful in the analysis and assessment
of previously published studies that were based on GEBCO Sheet 5.17.
Ron Macnab: Retired. 相似文献
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A systematic review across U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) identified potentially induced seismic locations was conducted to discover seismic distance patterns and trends over time away from injection disposal wells. Previous research indicates a 10 km (6 miles) average where the majority of induced seismicity is expected to occur within individual locations, with some areas reporting a larger radius of 35 km (22 miles) to over 70 km (43 miles). This research analyzed earthquake occurrences within nine USGS locations where specified wells were identified as contributors to induced seismicity to determine distance patterns from disposal wells or outward seismic migration over time using established principles of hydrogeology. Results indicate a radius of 31.6 km (20 miles) where 90% of felt earthquakes occur among locations, with the closest proximal felt seismic events, on average, occurring 3 km (1.9 miles) away from injection disposal wells. The results of this research found distance trends across multiple locations of potentially induced seismicity. 相似文献