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

Keywords

[RSTDPub], Blue carbon; Coastal ecosystems; Ecosystem change; Eutrophication; Palaeoecology; Seagrass archives

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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