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Daniel Conley

Daniel Conley

Professor

Daniel Conley

Ecosystem thresholds with hypoxia

Författare

  • Daniel Conley
  • Jacob Carstensen
  • Raquel Vaquer-Sunyer
  • Carlos M. Duarte

Summary, in English

Hypoxia is one of the common effects of eutrophication in coastal marine ecosystems and is becoming an increasingly prevalent problem worldwide. The causes of hypoxia are associated with excess nutrient inputs from both point and non-point sources, although the response of coastal marine ecosystems is strongly modulated by physical processes such as stratification and mixing. Changes in climate, particularly temperature, may also affect the susceptibility of coastal marine ecosystems to hypoxia. Hypoxia is a particularly severe disturbance because it causes death of biota and catastrophic changes in the ecosystem. Bottom water oxygen deficiency not only influences the habitat of living resources but also the biogeochemical processes that control nutrient concentrations in the water column. Increased phosphorus fluxes from sediments into overlying waters occur with hypoxia. In addition, reductions in the ability of ecosystems to remove nitrogen through denitrification and anaerobic ammonium oxidation may be related to hypoxia and could lead to acceleration in the rate of eutrophication. Three large coastal marine ecosystems (Chesapeake Bay, Northern Gulf of Mexico, and Danish Straits) all demonstrate thresholds whereby repeated hypoxic events have led to an increase in susceptibility of further hypoxia and accelerated eutrophication. Once hypoxia occurs, reoccurrence is likely and may be difficult to reverse. Therefore, elucidating ecosystem thresholds of hypoxia and linking them to nutrient inputs are necessary for the management of coastal marine ecosystems. Finally, projected increases in warming show an increase in the susceptibility of coastal marine ecosystems to hypoxia such that hypoxia will expand.

Avdelning/ar

  • Kvartärgeologi

Publiceringsår

2009

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

21-29

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Hydrobiologia

Volym

629

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Konferensbidrag

Förlag

Springer

Ämne

  • Geology

Nyckelord

  • Biogeochemistry
  • Nitrogen
  • Phosphorus
  • Resilience
  • Regime shift
  • Hypoxia

Conference name

2nd International Symposium on Research and Management of Eutrophication in Coastal Ecosystems

Conference date

2006-06-20 - 2006-06-23

Conference place

Nyborg, Denmark

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1573-5117
  • ISSN: 0018-8158