The microbial ecology of estuarine ecosystems

BC Crump, JL Bowen - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Human civilization relies on estuaries, and many estuarine ecosystem services are provided
by microbial communities. These services include high rates of primary production that …

System controls of coastal and open ocean oxygen depletion

GC Pitcher, A Aguirre-Velarde, D Breitburg… - Progress in …, 2021 - Elsevier
The epoch of the Anthropocene, a period during which human activity has been the
dominant influence on climate and the environment, has witnessed a decline in oxygen …

Characterization of dissolved organic matter processing between surface sediment porewater and overlying bottom water in the Yangtze River Estuary

Y Zhou, C Zhao, C He, P Li, Y Wang, Y Pang, Q Shi… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) exchange in the sediment-water interface of estuaries is
essential for the global elemental cycle. To clarify the interface DOM processing, this study …

Persistent eutrophication and hypoxia in the coastal ocean

M Dai, Y Zhao, F Chai, M Chen, N Chen… - Cambridge Prisms …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Coastal eutrophication and hypoxia remain a persistent environmental crisis despite the
great efforts to reduce nutrient loading and mitigate associated environmental damages …

Coastal upwelling combined with the river plume regulates hypoxia in the Changjiang Estuary and adjacent inner East China Sea shelf

Q Wei, P Yao, B Xu, B Zhao, X Ran… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Changjiang (Yangtze River) Estuary (CE) and adjacent inner East China Sea
(ECS) shelf are among the most well‐known hypoxic aquatic environments. However, the …

Winter mixing accelerates decomposition of sedimentary organic carbon in seasonally hypoxic coastal seas

L Wei, P Cai, X Shi, WJ Cai, W Liu, Q Hong… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Deltaic systems are characterized by the highest sedimentation rates in the globe.
Meanwhile, sedimentary organic matter therein can be efficiently decomposed so that these …

Nitrogen from agriculture and temperature as the major drivers of deoxygenation in the central Bohai Sea

F Yang, H Wang, AF Bouwman, AHW Beusen… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Agricultural N losses strongly dominate the N delivery (average 72% of total N delivery to
rivers in the period 1980–2010) in the rivers discharging into the Bohai Sea, a semi …

Mixed Archaeal Production and Nitrifier Denitrification Dominate N2O Production in the East China Sea: Insights From Isotopocule and Hydroxylamine Analyses

XJ Gu, L Wang, KL Casciotti, Y **n… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Oceans are identified as potent sources of atmospheric nitrous oxide (N2O), while the
magnitude of its flux and microbial production mechanisms remain uncertain in highly …

Water oxygen consumption rather than sediment oxygen consumption drives the variation of hypoxia on the East China Sea shelf

Q Meng, W Zhang, F Zhou, Y Liao, P Yu… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Sediment oxygen consumption (SOC) is important in modulating the oxygen budget in the
East China Sea where seasonal hypoxia occurs. Porewater advection, molecular diffusion …

Dissolved oxygen depletion in Chinese coastal waters

W Zhang, S Pan, L Yu, H Zhang, F Chen, G Song, J Hu… - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Estuarine and coastal environments have experienced dissolved oxygen (DO hereafter)
depression and hypoxia due to increasingly intensified anthropogenic eutrophication and …