Impacts of urbanization and development on estuarine ecosystems and water quality

LA Freeman, DR Corbett, AM Fitzgerald, DA Lemley… - Estuaries and …, 2019 - Springer
Urbanization and human-led development have increased more rapidly along shorelines
and in coastal watersheds than inland regions over the past century. The result of major land …

A chronicle of a killer alga in the west: ecology, assessment, and management of Prymnesium parvum blooms

DL Roelke, A Barkoh, BW Brooks, JP Grover… - Hydrobiologia, 2016 - Springer
Since the mid-1980s, fish-killing blooms of Prymnesium parvum spread throughout the USA.
In the south central USA, P. parvum blooms have commonly spanned hundreds of …

Microbial, physical, and chemical changes in Galveston Bay following an extreme flooding event, Hurricane Harvey

JL Steichen, JM Labonté, R Windham… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Hurricane Harvey (category four storm) made landfall along the coast of Texas (United
States) and then stalled out over Texas and Louisiana, releasing 1.29× 1011 m3 of …

How habitat heterogeneity shapes bacterial and protistan communities in temperate coastal areas near estuaries

Z Zhao, H Li, Y Sun, K Shao, X Wang… - Environmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we investigated microbial communities (bacteria and protist) in two coastal
areas near the estuaries of the Liaohe (LH) River and Yalujiang (YLJ) River in the …

[HTML][HTML] Bacteria versus fungi for predicting anthropogenic pollution in subtropical coastal sediments: assembly process and environmental response

Z Zhao, H Li, Y Sun, A Zhan, W Lan, SP Woo… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Coastal regions support the most threatened ecosystems on Earth, and anthropogenic
activities have been significantly affecting both habitat structure and ecological quality …

Distinct stochastic processes drive bacterial community assembly and co-occurrence patterns with common antibiotic resistance genes in two highly urbanised coastal …

K Zou, Y Zhu, Y Jiang, S Ma, M Li, W Zhao… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
To comprehensively elucidate the ecology of the bacterial community and antibiotic
resistance genes (ARGs) in urbanised coastal ecosystems, this study investigated the …

Impacts of storm events on chlorophyll-a variations and controlling factors for algal bloom in a river receiving reclaimed water

A Liao, D Han, X Song, S Yang - Journal of Environmental Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Harmful algal bloom is prevalent in the reclaimed-water-source (RWS) river caused by the
excessive nutrient's inputs. Rainfall water may be the sole nutrient-diluted water source for …

Phytoplankton community response to a drought‐to‐wet climate transition in a subtropical estuary

S Douglas, J Xue, A Hardison… - Limnology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Arid subtropical climates often oscillate between drought and wet conditions, leading to a
“flood or famine” paradigm for estuarine freshwater inflow, in which sporadic storm events …

Towards an understanding of the interactions between freshwater inflows and phytoplankton communities in a subtropical estuary in the Gulf of Mexico

S Dorado, T Booe, J Steichen, AS McInnes… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Subtropical estuaries worldwide face increased pressure on their ecosystem health and
services due to increasing human population growth and associated land use/land cover …

Timescales and magnitude of water quality change in three Texas estuaries induced by passage of Hurricane Harvey

LM Walker, PA Montagna, X Hu, MS Wetz - Estuaries and Coasts, 2021 - Springer
Tropical cyclones represent a substantial disturbance to water quality in coastal ecosystems
via storm surge, winds, and flooding. However, evidence to date suggests that the impacts of …