scholarly journals Climate forcing of the spring bloom in Chesapeake Bay

2007 ◽  
Vol 331 ◽  
pp. 11-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
WD Miller ◽  
LW Harding Jr
Keyword(s):  
Chesapeake Bay ◽  
Spring Bloom ◽  
Climate Forcing

Regional scale climate forcing of mesozooplankton dynamics in Chesapeake Bay

2006 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Kimmel ◽  
W. David Miller ◽  
Michael R. Roman
Keyword(s):  
Chesapeake Bay ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Climate Forcing

Climate Forcing and Salinity Variability in Chesapeake Bay, USA

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 237-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiangtao Xu ◽  
Wen Long ◽  
Jerry D. Wiggert ◽  
Lyon W. J. Lanerolle ◽  
Christopher W. Brown ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chesapeake Bay ◽  
Climate Forcing ◽  
Salinity Variability

scholarly journals Adaptations by Zostera marina Dominated Seagrass Meadows in Response to Water Quality and Climate Forcing

Diversity ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Shields ◽  
Kenneth Moore ◽  
David Parrish
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Chesapeake Bay ◽  
Zostera Marina ◽  
Human Disturbance ◽  
Climatic Factors ◽  
Water Clarity ◽  
Growth Patterns ◽  
Climate Forcing ◽  
Seagrass Meadows ◽  
Response To Water

Global assessments of seagrass declines have documented accelerating rates of loss due to anthropogenic sediment and nutrient loadings, resulting in poor water quality. More recently, global temperature increases have emerged as additional major stressors. Seagrass changes in the Chesapeake Bay, USA provide important examples of not only the effects of human disturbance and climate forcing on seagrass loss, but also meadow recovery and resiliency. In the York River sub-tributary of the Chesapeake Bay, the meadows have been monitored intensively using annual aerial imagery, monthly transect surveys, and continuous water quality measurements. Here, Zostera marina has been demonstrating a shift in its historical growth patterns, with its biomass peaking earlier in the growing season and summer declines beginning earlier. We found an increasing trend in the length of the most stressful high temperature summer period, increasing by 22 days since 1950. Over the past 20 years, Z. marina’s abundance has exhibited periods of decline followed by recovery, with recovery years associated with greater spring water clarity and less time spent at water temperatures > 28 °C. Although human disturbance and climatic factors have been altering these seagrass meadows, resilience has been evident by an increase in reproductive output and regrowth from Z. marina seedlings following declines, as well as expansions of Ruppia maritima into areas previously dominated by Z. marina.

scholarly journals What drives interannual variability of hypoxia in Chesapeake Bay: Climate forcing versus nutrient loading?

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 2127-2134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming Li ◽  
Younjoo J. Lee ◽  
Jeremy M. Testa ◽  
Yun Li ◽  
Wenfei Ni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chesapeake Bay ◽  
Interannual Variability ◽  
Nutrient Loading ◽  
Climate Forcing

scholarly journals Dynamics of the 1990 winter/spring bloom in Chesapeake Bay

1995 ◽  
Vol 122 ◽  
pp. 27-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
PM Glibert ◽  
DJ Conley ◽  
TR Fisher ◽  
LW Harding ◽  
TC Malone
Keyword(s):  
Chesapeake Bay ◽  
Spring Bloom

Between ‘Savage Man’ and ‘Most Faithful Englishman’ Manteo and the Early Anglo-Indian Exchange, 1584–1590

Itinerario ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Leroy Oberg
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Chesapeake Bay ◽  
One Year ◽  
Anglo Indian

In August of 1587 Manteo, an Indian from Croatoan Island, joined a group of English settlers in an attack on the native village of Dasemunkepeuc, located on the coast of present-day North Carolina. These colonists, amongst whom Manteo lived, had landed on Roanoke Island less than a month before, dumped there by a pilot more interested in hunting Spanish prize ships than in carrying colonists to their intended place of settlement along the Chesapeake Bay. The colonists had hoped to re-establish peaceful relations with area natives, and for that reason they relied upon Manteo to act as an interpreter, broker, and intercultural diplomat. The legacy of Anglo-Indian bitterness remaining from Ralph Lane's military settlement, however, which had hastily abandoned the island one year before, was too great for Manteo to overcome. The settlers found themselves that summer in the midst of hostile Indians.

Developing TMDLs for Local Impairments Consistent with the Regional Chesapeake Bay TMDL

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gene Yagow ◽  
Brian Benham ◽  
Karen Kline ◽  
Becky Zeckoski ◽  
Carlington Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Chesapeake Bay

Spatial ecology and growth in early life stages of bay anchovy Anchoa mitchilli in Chesapeake Bay (USA)

2020 ◽  
Vol 651 ◽  
pp. 125-143
Author(s):  
TD Auth ◽  
T Arula ◽  
ED Houde ◽  
RJ Woodland
Keyword(s):  
Chesapeake Bay ◽  
Spatial Ecology ◽  
Environmental Variability ◽  
Larval Growth ◽  
Larval Abundance ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Variability ◽  
Estuarine Ecosystem ◽  
Anchoa Mitchilli ◽  
Larval Production ◽  
Bay Anchovy

The bay anchovy Anchoa mitchilli is the most abundant fish in Chesapeake Bay (USA) and is a vital link between plankton and piscivores within the trophic structure of this large estuarine ecosystem. Baywide distributions and abundances of bay anchovy eggs and larvae, and larval growth, were analyzed in a 5 yr program to evaluate temporal and spatial variability based on research surveys in the 1995-1999 spawning seasons. Effects of environmental variability and abundance of zooplankton that serve as prey for larval bay anchovy were analyzed. In the years of these surveys, 97.6% of eggs and 98.8% of larvae occurred in the polyhaline lower bay. Median egg and larval abundances differed more than 10-fold for surveys conducted in the 5 yr and were highest in the lower bay. Within years, median larval abundance (ind. m-2) in the lower bay was generally 1-2 orders of magnitude higher than upper-bay abundance. Salinity, temperature, and dissolved oxygen explained 12% of the spatial and temporal variability in egg abundances and accounted for 27% of the variability in larval abundances. The mean, baywide growth rate for larvae over the 5 yr period was 0.75 ± 0.01 mm d-1, and was best explained by zooplankton concentration and feeding incidence. Among years, mean growth rates ranged from 0.68 (in 1999) to 0.81 (in 1998) mm d-1 and were fastest in the upper bay. We identified environmental factors, especially salinity, that contributed to broadscale variability in egg and larval production.

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