From coast to coast to coast: ecology and management of seagrass ecosystems across Canada

GEP Murphy, JC Dunic, EM Adamczyk, SJ Bittick… - Facets, 2021 - facetsjournal.com
Seagrass meadows are among the most productive and diverse marine ecosystems,
providing essential structure, functions, and services. They are also among the most …

How habitat heterogeneity shapes bacterial and protistan communities in temperate coastal areas near estuaries

Z Zhao, H Li, Y Sun, K Shao, X Wang… - Environmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we investigated microbial communities (bacteria and protist) in two coastal
areas near the estuaries of the Liaohe (LH) River and Yalujiang (YLJ) River in the …

[图书][B] Aquatic monocotyledons of north America

DH Les - 2020 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Aquatic Dicotyledons of North America (Les, 2017) and follows a similar format by providing
a comprehensive overview of the life history, ecology, and systematics of those …

Epifaunal diversity patterns within and among seagrass meadows suggest landscape‐scale biodiversity processes

R Whippo, NS Knight, C Prentice, J Cristiani… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Coastal seascapes can support high animal diversity and secondary productivity that attracts
conservation interest and provides ecosystem services. Though the importance of spatial …

A human impact metric for coastal ecosystems with application to seagrass beds in Atlantic Canada

GEP Murphy, MC Wong, HK Lotze - Facets, 2019 - facetsjournal.com
Coastal biogenic habitats are vulnerable to human impacts from both terrestrial and marine
realms. Yet the broad spatial scale used in current approaches of quantifying anthropogenic …

Incorporating anthropogenic thresholds to improve understanding of cumulative effects on seagrass beds

GEP Murphy, NE Kelly, HK Lotze, MC Wong - Facets, 2022 - facetsjournal.com
Cumulative human impact analysis is a promising management tool to estimate the impacts
of stressors on ecosystems caused by multiple human activities. However, connecting …

Osmoregulatory physiology of the angel wing bivalve Cyrtopleura costata (Pholadidae), an estuarine intertidal burrowing mollusc

N Stakowian, CA Freire - Journal of Molluscan Studies, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Cyrtopleura costata is a pholadid bivalve that inhabits tidal flats inside burrows c. 40 cm
deep, and its visceral mass outgrows its shell significantly. Thus, unlike other bivalves, it …

Potential impacts of finfish aquaculture on eelgrass (Zostera marina) beds and possible monitoring metrics for management: a case study in Atlantic Canada

N Cullain, R McIver, AL Schmidt, I Milewski, HK Lotze - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
Eelgrass (Zostera marina) has been designated an Ecologically Significant Species in
Atlantic Canada. The development and rapid expansion of netpen finfish aquaculture into …

Sponge communities in the eastern Canadian Arctic: species richness, diversity and density determined using targeted benthic sampling and underwater video …

C Dinn, X Zhang, E Edinger, SP Leys - Polar Biology, 2020 - Springer
The sponge diversity of the eastern Canadian Arctic remains largely unknown. Sponges of
the three marine ecoregions which make up the eastern Canadian Arctic and sub-Arctic are …

[图书][B] Nitrogen loading rates for twenty-one seagrass inhabited bays in Nova Scotia, Canada

EJ Nagel, G Murphy, MC Wong, HK Lotze - 2018 - researchgate.net
Nutrient loading from anthropogenic sources has implications for the health and functioning
of aquatic species and ecosystems. Using a nutrient loading model (NLM), nitrogen loading …