Airborne detection of ecosystem responses to an extreme event: Phytoplankton displacement and abundance after hurricane induced flooding in the Pamlico-Albemarle Sound system, North Carolina
| Autor: | R. Wayne Litaker, James K. Yungel, Megan N. D. Black, Mary E. Culver, R. N. Swift, Richard P. Stumpf, Patricia A. Tester, David L. Eslinger, Sabrina M. Varnam |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Ecological stability
Hydrology geography geography.geographical_feature_category Estuary Aquatic Science Plankton Colored dissolved organic matter chemistry.chemical_compound chemistry Chlorophyll Phytoplankton Environmental Chemistry Environmental science Ecosystem General Environmental Science Trophic level |
| Zdroj: | Estuaries. 26:1353-1364 |
| ISSN: | 0160-8347 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/bf02803637 |
| Popis: | Airborne laser-induced fluorescence measurements were used to detect and monitor ecosystem wide changes in the distribution and concentration of chlorophyll biomass and colored dissolved organic matter in the Pamlico-Albemarle Sound system, North Carolina, U.S., following massive flooding caused by a series of three hurricanes in the late summer of 1999. These high-resolution data provided a significantly more detailed representation of the overall changes occurring in the system than could have been achieved by synoptic sampling from any other platform. The response time for the distribution of chlorophyll biomass to resume pre-flood conditions was used as a measure of ecosystem stability. Chlorophyll biomass patterns were reestablished within four mo of the flooding, whereas higher chlorophylla biomass concentrations persisted for approximately 6 mo. The primary trophic level in the Pamlico-Albemarle Sound system returned to equilibrium in less than a year of a major perturbation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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