Drivers of change in estuarine‐coastal ecosystems: Discoveries from four decades of study in San Francisco Bay

JE Cloern, AD Jassby - Reviews of Geophysics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Poised at the interface of rivers, ocean, atmosphere and dense human settlement, estuaries
are driven by a large array of natural and anthropogenic forces. San Francisco Bay …

Challenges and opportunities for science in reducing nutrient over-enrichment of coastal ecosystems

DF Boesch - Estuaries, 2002 - Springer
Nutrient over-enrichment has resulted in major changes in the coastal ecosystems of
developed nations in Europe, North America, Asia, and Oceania, mostly taking place over …

Dynamics and distribution of natural and human-caused hypoxia

NN Rabalais, RJ Diaz, LA Levin, RE Turner… - …, 2010 - bg.copernicus.org
Water masses can become undersaturated with oxygen when natural processes alone or in
combination with anthropogenic processes produce enough organic carbon that is …

Return to Neverland: Shifting Baselines Affect Eutrophication Restoration Targets

CM Duarte, DJ Conley, J Carstensen… - Estuaries and …, 2009 - Springer
The implicit assumption of many scientific and regulatory frameworks that ecosystems
impacted by human pressures may be reverted to their original condition by suppressing the …

Water quality assessment and pollution source identification of the eastern Poyang Lake Basin using multivariate statistical methods

W Duan, B He, D Nover, G Yang, W Chen, H Meng… - Sustainability, 2016 - mdpi.com
Multivariate statistical methods including cluster analysis (CA), discriminant analysis (DA)
and component analysis/factor analysis (PCA/FA), were applied to explore the surface water …

Long‐term changes and impacts of hypoxia in Danish coastal waters

DJ Conley, J Carstensen, G Ærtebjerg… - Ecological …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
A 38‐year record of bottom‐water dissolved oxygen concentrations in coastal marine
ecosystems around Denmark (1965–2003) and a longer, partially reconstructed record of …

An approach to the intercalibration of benthic ecological status assessment in the North Atlantic ecoregion, according to the European Water Framework Directive

A Borja, AB Josefson, A Miles, I Muxika, F Olsgard… - Marine pollution …, 2007 - Elsevier
The European Water Framework Directive (WFD) establishes a framework for the protection
and improvement of transitional and coastal waters; its final objective is to achieve at least …

Nutrient pressures and ecological responses to nutrient loading reductions in Danish streams, lakes and coastal waters

B Kronvang, E Jeppesen, DJ Conley, M Søndergaard… - Journal of …, 2005 - Elsevier
The Danish National Aquatic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (NOVA) was
launched in 1988 following the adoption of the first Danish Action Plan on the Aquatic …

Coastal eutrophication: recent developments in definitions and implications for monitoring strategies

JH Andersen, L Schlüter… - Journal of plankton …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
The word 'eutrophication'has its root in two Greek words:'eu'which means 'well'and
'trope'which means 'nourishment'. The modern use of the word eutrophication is related to …

Baltic Sea eutrophication: area-specific ecological consequences

C Rönnberg, E Bonsdorff - Hydrobiologia, 2004 - Springer
Eutrophication of coastal waters is a global phenomenon. the amounts of nutrients in the
brackish water of the Baltic Sea have increased several times during the last century, with …