Phytoplankton bloom dynamics in coastal ecosystems: a review with some general lessons from sustained investigation of San Francisco Bay, California

JE Cloern - Reviews of Geophysics, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
Phytoplankton blooms are prominent features of biological variability in shallow coastal
ecosystems such as estuaries, lagoons, bays, and tidal rivers. Long‐term observation and …

A conceptual model of estuarine freshwater inflow management

M Alber - Estuaries, 2002 - Springer
As humans continue to influence the quantity, timing, and quality of freshwater input to
estuaries, it is becoming increasingly common for policies to be enacted that mandate the …

Temporal responses of coastal hypoxia to nutrient loading and physical controls

WM Kemp, JM Testa, DJ Conley, D Gilbert… - …, 2009 - bg.copernicus.org
The incidence and intensity of hypoxic waters in coastal aquatic ecosystems has been
expanding in recent decades coincident with eutrophication of the coastal zone. Worldwide …

Relating nutrient discharges from watersheds to land use and streamflow variability

TE Jordan, DL Correll, DE Weller - Water resources research, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
During a 1‐year period we measured discharges of water, suspended solids, and nutrients
from 27 watersheds having differing proportions of cropland in the Piedmont and Coastal …

Relationships between benthic community condition, water quality, sediment quality, nutrient loads, and land use patterns in Chesapeake Bay

DM Dauer, JA Ranasinghe, SB Weisberg - Estuaries, 2000 - Springer
Associations between macrobenthic communities, measures of water column and sediment
exposure, and measures of anthropogenic activities throughout the watershed were …

Regulation of estuarine primary production by watershed rainfall and river flow

MA Mallin, HW Paerl, J Rudek, PW Bates - Marine Ecology-Progress …, 1993 - int-res.com
Enhanced phytoplankton production and algal blooms, symptoms of eutrophication, are
frequently caused by elevated nutrient loading, usually as nitrogen, to coastal waters. This …

Nutrient and sediment removal by a restored wetland receiving agricultural runoff

TE Jordan, DF Whigham… - Journal of …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Few studies have measured removal of pollutants by restored wetlands that receive highly
variable inflows. We used automated flow‐proportional sampling to monitor the removal of …

Effects of agriculture on discharges of nutrients from coastal plain watersheds of Chesapeake Bay

TE Jordan, DL Correll, DE Weller - 1997 - Wiley Online Library
We measured annual discharges of water, sediments, and nutrients from 17 Chesapeake
Bay watersheds with differing proportions of agricultural lands on the inner, central, and …

Seasonal patterns and long-term trends in an estuarine upwelling ecosystem (Rıa de Vigo, NW Spain)

E Nogueira, FF Pérez, AF Rıos - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 1997 - Elsevier
Thermohaline properties, nutrient salts, chlorophyllaand meteorological variables have
been intensively monitored since February 1987 in the Rı́a de Vigo (NW Spain), in order to …

Long-term increase of phytoplankton biomass in Chesapeake Bay, 1950-1994

LW Harding Jr, ES Perry - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 1997 - int-res.com
An analysis of historical and recent data on chlorophyll a for Chesapeake Bay reveals that a
significant increase of phytoplankton biomass has occurred during the last 40 to 50 yr …