Phytoplankton blooms are prominent features of biological variability in shallow coastal
ecosystems such as estuaries, lagoons, bays, and tidal rivers. Long‐term observation and …

The microphytobenthos consists of unicellular eukaryotic algae and cyanobacteria that grow
within the upper several millimeters of illuminated sediments, typically appearing only as a …

PHYTOPLANKTON AND MICROPHYTOBENTHOS 95 between the sediments and the water
phase, and in effecting bacterial processes. In low-nutrient systems, release of nutrients to …

Marine diatoms generally form large blooms during periods of cool temperature (< 20° C),
high NO3− fluxes (> 25 μM‐N), and turbulent mixing, but the adaptations that allow diatoms …

We developed an approach to map turbidity in estuaries using a time series (May 2003 to
April 2006) of 250-m resolution images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging …

Macrotidal estuaries (mean tidal range> 2m) generally exhibit a tolerance to pollution with
nitrogen-containing nutrients despite high loadings originating from freshwater outflows …

A decade of observation in South San Francisco Bay demonstrates that estuarine
phytoplankton biomass fluctuates at the time scale of days to weeks, and that much of this …

The mechanisms that resuspend bottom sediments in Hillsborough Bay, a shallow,
microtidal, subtropical estuary in West-central Florida, were determined by analysing …

This study examines whether plankton of the Lagoon of Venice could be considered as a bio-
indicator of areas subjected to various anthropogenic influences. This study was a two year …

The development and distribution of phytoplankton blooms in estuaries are functions of both
local conditions (ie the production-loss balance for a water column at a particular spatial …