Seagrass sediments reveal the long-term deterioration of an estuarine ecosystem

Authors/Creators

Oscar Serrano, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Paul Lavery, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Pere Masque´, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Karina Inostroza
James Bongiovanni
Carlos Duarte, Edith Cowan University

Abstract

The study of a Posidonia australis sediment archive has provided a record of ecosystem dynamics and processes over the last 600 years in Oyster Harbour (SW Australia). Ecosystem shifts are a widespread phenomenon in coastal areas, and this study identifies baseline conditions and the time-course of ecological change (cycles, trends, resilience and thresholds of ecosystem change) under environmental stress in seagrass-dominated ecosystem. The shifts in the concentrations of chemical elements, carbonates, sediments

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of Publication

2016

Publication Title

Global Change Biology

Publisher

Wiley

School

School of Natural Sciences / Centre for Marine Ecosystems Research

RAS ID

21024

Related Datasets

Serrano, O., Lavery, P. S., Masque, P., Inostroza, K., Bongiovanni, J., & Duarte, C. (2016). Seagrass sediments reveal the long-term deterioration of an estuarine ecosystem [dataset]. Edith Cowan University. http://dx.doi.org/10.4225/75/56c566831d41a

Comments

Serrano, O., Lavery, P., Masque, P., Inostroza, K., Bongiovanni, J., & Duarte, C. (2016). Seagrass sediments reveal the long-term deterioration of an estuarine ecosystem. Global Change Biology, 22(4), 1523-1531. Available here

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