Zooplankton Abundance and Community Structure in a Mesohaline North Carolina Estuary

Estuaries ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Mallin
2007 ◽  
Vol 2007 (5) ◽  
pp. 1019-1031
Author(s):  
Angela D. Coulliette ◽  
Andrew D. Gronewold ◽  
Eric S. Money ◽  
Marc L. Serre ◽  
Rachel T. Noble

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arief Rachman ◽  
Elly Asniariati

<p>Banggai Sea is an interesting ecosystem due to mixing influences from Banda Sea in the west and Maluccas Sea in the east. Therefore, a unique zooplankton community structure and specific distribution pattern should be found in this area. This research was carried on using Baruna Jaya VIII research vessel and samples were collected in 14 sampling stations. Vertical towing using NORPAC plankton net (300 μm) was conducted to collect zooplankton samples. Result showed that inner Mesamat Bay had the lowest abundance of zooplankton, probably due to low water quality resulted from anthropogenic activity. Meanwhile the strait between Liang and Labobo Island had the highest zooplankton abundance in Banggai Sea. Calanoids was the dominant zooplankton taxa in the ecosystem and contributing 55.7% of total density of zooplankton community. The highest importance value made this taxa to be very important factor that regulates the lower trophic level organisms. Results also showed that zooplankton was distributed nearly uniform in eastern but aggregated to several stations in western Banggai Sea. Zooplankton abundance was higher in the central of Banggai Sea, compared to western and eastern area. According to Bray-Curtis clustering analysis the strait between Liang and Labobo Island has unique zooplankton community structure. This might happened due to mixing of water from two highly productive seas that influenced the Banggai Sea ecosystem. From this research we conclude that this strait probably was the zooplankton hot spot area which might also indicate that this area also a hot spot of fishes in the Banggai Sea.</p><p>Keywords: spatial distribution, zooplankton, community structure, hot spot, Banggai</p>


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (41) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariane L. Peralta ◽  
Regina B. Bledsoe ◽  
Mario E. Muscarella ◽  
Marcel Huntemann ◽  
Alicia Clum ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Hydrologic changes modify microbial community structure and ecosystem functions, especially in wetland systems. Here, we present 24 metagenomes from a coastal freshwater wetland experiment in which we manipulated hydrologic conditions and plant presence. These wetland soil metagenomes will deepen our understanding of how hydrology and vegetation influence microbial functional diversity.


Diversity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie E. Keister ◽  
Amanda K. Winans ◽  
BethElLee Herrmann

Several hypotheses of how zooplankton communities respond to coastal hypoxia have been put forward in the literature over the past few decades. We explored three of those that are focused on how zooplankton composition or biomass is affected by seasonal hypoxia using data collected over two summers in Hood Canal, a seasonally-hypoxic sub-basin of Puget Sound, Washington. We conducted hydrographic profiles and zooplankton net tows at four stations, from a region in the south that annually experiences moderate hypoxia to a region in the north where oxygen remains above hypoxic levels. The specific hypotheses tested were that low oxygen leads to: (1) increased dominance of gelatinous relative to crustacean zooplankton, (2) increased dominance of cyclopoid copepods relative to calanoid copepods, and (3) overall decreased zooplankton abundance and biomass at hypoxic sites compared to where oxygen levels are high. Additionally, we examined whether the temporal stability of community structure was decreased by hypoxia. We found evidence of a shift toward more gelatinous zooplankton and lower total zooplankton abundance and biomass at hypoxic sites, but no clear increase in the dominance of cyclopoid relative to calanoid copepods. We also found the lowest variance in community structure at the most hypoxic site, in contrast to our prediction. Hypoxia can fundamentally alter marine ecosystems, but the impacts differ among systems.


Diversity ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Bucci ◽  
Anthony Szempruch ◽  
Jane Caldwell ◽  
Joseph Ellis ◽  
Jay Levine

1982 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 448-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Garriet W. Smith ◽  
Steven S. Hayasaka

Nitrogenase activity (at in situ temperatures) associated with Zostera marina reflected the active growth periods of this plant in North Carolina coastal waters. During the plants most active growth period (late winter – spring) nitrogenase activity was primarily rhizospheric (8.47 μmol nitrogen fixed∙m−2∙day−1), while during its fall – early winter period it was primarily phyllospheric (8.03 μmol nitrogen fixed∙m−2∙day−1). No nitrogenase activity was detected during the warmer summer months when the plant is dormant. Phyllospheric nitrogenase activity (possibly the result of epiphytic heterocystic blue-green bacteria) was highest when plants were incubated aerobically in the presence of light.


F1000Research ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
Charles Bangley ◽  
Roger Rulifson

Five spiny dogfish were captured in early-mid May during gillnet and longline sampling targeting juvenile coastal sharks in inshore North Carolina waters.  Dogfish captures were made within Back Sound and Core Sound, North Carolina. All dogfish were females measuring 849-905 mm total length, well over the size at 50% maturity. Dogfish were caught at stations 1.8-2.7 m in depth, with temperatures 22.9-24.2 °C, 32.8-33.4 ppt salinity, and 6.9-8.0 mg/L dissolved oxygen. These observations are among the latest in the spring for spiny dogfish in the southeastern U.S. and occurred at higher temperatures than previously recorded for this species.  It is unclear whether late-occurring spiny dogfish in this area represent a cryptic late-migrating or resident segment of the Northwest Atlantic population.


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