Eutrophication of Chesapeake Bay: historical trends and ecological interactions

WM Kemp, WR Boynton, JE Adolf, DF Boesch… - … ecology progress series, 2005 - int-res.com
This review provides an integrated synthesis with timelines and evaluations of ecological
responses to eutrophication in Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the USA. Analyses of …

[HTML][HTML] The continental Si cycle and its impact on the ocean Si isotope budget

PJ Frings, W Clymans, G Fontorbe, L Christina… - Chemical …, 2016 - Elsevier
The silicon isotope composition of biogenic silica (δ 30 Si BSi) in the ocean is a function of
the δ 30 Si of the available dissolved Si (DSi; H 2 SiO 4), the degree of utilisation of the …

Ecological extinction and evolution in the brave new ocean

JBC Jackson - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
The great mass extinctions of the fossil record were a major creative force that provided
entirely new kinds of opportunities for the subsequent explosive evolution and diversification …

Hypoxia in Chesapeake Bay, 1950–2001: long-term change in relation to nutrient loading and river flow

JD Hagy, WR Boynton, CW Keefe, KV Wood - Estuaries, 2004 - Springer
A 52-yr record of dissolved oxygen in Chesapeake Bay (1950–2001) and a record of nitrate
(NO 3−) loading by the Susquehanna River spanning a longer period (1903, 1945–2001) …

Gulf of Mexico hypoxia: Alternate states and a legacy

RE Turner, NN Rabalais, D Justic - Environmental Science & …, 2008 - ACS Publications
A 20+ year data set of the size of the hypoxic zone off the Louisiana− Texas coast is
analyzed to reveal insights about what causes variation in the size of the hypoxic zone in …

Rapid wetland expansion during European settlement and its implication for marsh survival under modern sediment delivery rates

ML Kirwan, AB Murray, JP Donnelly… - …, 2011 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Fluctuations in sea-level rise rates are thought to dominate the formation and evolution of
coastal wetlands. Here we demonstrate a contrasting scenario in which land-use–related …

Sediments tell the history of eutrophication and hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico

NN Rabalais, RE Turner, BKS Gupta… - Ecological …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We examined a suite of paleoindicators in 210Pb‐dated sediment cores to determine the
historical course of primary production, eutrophication, and oxygen stress in the coastal …

Historical records of coastal eutrophication-induced hypoxia

AJ Gooday, F Jorissen, LA Levin, JJ Middelburg… - …, 2009 - bg.copernicus.org
Under certain conditions, sediment cores from coastal settings subject to hypoxia can yield
records of environmental changes over time scales ranging from decades to millennia …

Historical reconstruction of human-induced changes in US estuaries

RN Gibson, RJA Atkinson… - … and marine biology: an …, 2010 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Estuaries are vital ecosystems that have sustained human and marine life since earliest
times. Yet, no other part of the ocean has been so fundamentally shaped by human …

The medieval climate anomaly and little ice age in Chesapeake Bay and the North Atlantic Ocean

TM Cronin, K Hayo, RC Thunell, GS Dwyer… - Palaeogeography …, 2010 - Elsevier
A new 2400-year paleoclimate reconstruction from Chesapeake Bay (CB)(eastern US) was
compared to other paleoclimate records in the North Atlantic region to evaluate climate …