Human‐induced marine ecological degradation: micropaleontological perspectives

M Yasuhara, G Hunt, D Breitburg… - Ecology and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We analyzed published downcore microfossil records from 150 studies and reinterpreted
them from an ecological degradation perspective to address the following critical but still …

Testing peatland testate amoeba transfer functions: appropriate methods for clustered training-sets

RJ Payne, RJ Telford, JJ Blackford, A Blundell… - The …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Transfer functions are widely used in palaeoecology to infer past environmental conditions
from fossil remains of many groups of organisms. In contrast to traditional training-set design …

Using palaeoecological and palaeoenvironmental records to guide restoration, conservation and adaptive management of Ramsar freshwater wetlands: lessons from …

MA Riedinger-Whitmore - Marine and Freshwater Research, 2015 - CSIRO Publishing
The Everglades, the largest Ramsar wetland in the USA, is a spatially complex mosaic of
freshwater habitats heavily impacted by agriculture, urban land use, and efforts to manage …

Watching the tide roll away–contested interpretations of the nature of the Lower Lakes of the Murray Darling Basin

PA Gell - Pacific Conservation Biology, 2019 - CSIRO Publishing
The Murray Darling Basin Plan (Murray Darling Basin Authority 2012) represents the largest
investment by government in an Australian environmental management challenge and …

A diatom dataset and diatom-salinity inference model for southeast Australian estuaries and coastal lakes

KM Saunders - Journal of Paleolimnology, 2011 - Springer
To quantify the relationship between diatom species assemblages and the water chemistry
of southeast Australian estuaries and coastal lakes, a new dataset of 81 modern diatom …

Relationship between diatoms and water quality (TN, TP) in sub-tropical east Australian estuaries

B Logan, KH Taffs - Journal of Paleolimnology, 2013 - Springer
Nutrient over-enrichment of estuarine environments is increasing globally. However, it is
difficult to determine the eutrophication trend in estuaries over long periods of time because …

Diatoms as a proxy in reconstructing the Holocene environmental changes in the south-western Baltic Sea: the lower Rega River Valley sedimentary record

A Witkowski, B Cedro, A Kierzek… - … Proxies as Tools of …, 2009 - Springer
This study focuses on diatom assemblages occurring in cores of Late-glacial and Holocene
deposits retrieved from the mouth of the lower Rega River valley, of the southern coast of the …

Palaeoecology: a tool to improve the management of Australian estuaries

KM Saunders, KH Taffs - Journal of Environmental Management, 2009 - Elsevier
Addressing environmental problems in estuaries is a worldwide problem. Establishing
benchmarks and targets for management is critical, whether the aim is conservation …

Assessing changes in nutrient status in the Richmond River estuary, Australia, using paleolimnological methods

B Logan, KH Taffs, BD Eyre, A Zawadski - Journal of Paleolimnology, 2011 - Springer
Eutrophication from nutrient over-enrichment is a serious problem for the coastal zone and
the estuarine environment globally. Australian estuaries are generally oligotrophic, but …

Benthic diatoms in a Mediterranean delta: ecological indicators and a conductivity transfer function for paleoenvironmental studies

X Benito, R Trobajo, C Ibáñez - Journal of paleolimnology, 2015 - Springer
The contemporary distribution of benthic diatoms and their use as ecological indicators were
examined in a coastal wetland, the Ebro Delta, as a representative of environmental …