The science of hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: a review

TS Bianchi, SF DiMarco, JH Cowan Jr… - Science of the Total …, 2010 - Elsevier
The Mississippi River is one of the world's 10 largest rivers, with average freshwater
discharge into the northern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) of 380km3year− 1. In the northern GOM …

The metabolism of aquatic ecosystems: history, applications, and future challenges

PA Staehr, JM Testa, WM Kemp, JJ Cole… - Aquatic Sciences, 2012 - Springer
Measurements of the production and consumption of organic material have been a focus of
aquatic science for more than 80 years. Over the last century, a variety of approaches have …

Ecological network analysis: network construction

BD Fath, UM Scharler, RE Ulanowicz, B Hannon - Ecological modelling, 2007 - Elsevier
Ecological network analysis (ENA) is a systems-oriented methodology to analyze within
system interactions used to identify holistic properties that are otherwise not evident from the …

Comparison of hypoxia among four river-dominated ocean margins: The Changjiang (Yangtze), Mississippi, Pearl, and Rhône rivers

C Rabouille, DJ Conley, MH Dai, WJ Cai… - Continental Shelf …, 2008 - Elsevier
We examined the occurrence of seasonal hypoxia (O2< 2mgl− 1) in the bottom waters of
four river-dominated ocean margins (off the Changjiang, Mississippi, Pearl and Rhône …

Diatom bloom‐derived bottom water hypoxia off the Changjiang estuary, with and without typhoon influence

B Wang, J Chen, H Jin, H Li, D Huang… - Limnology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
During the summers of 2009 and 2013, seawater pH and concentrations of dissolved
oxygen, inorganic carbon, and nutrients were measured off the Changjiang estuary in the …

Quantifying food web flows using linear inverse models

D Van Oevelen, K Van den Meersche, FJR Meysman… - Ecosystems, 2010 - Springer
The quantitative mapping of food web flows based on empirical data is a crucial yet difficult
task in ecology. The difficulty arises from the under-sampling of food webs, because most …

Carbon flows through a benthic food web: Integrating biomass, isotope and tracer data

D Van Oevelen, K Soetaert, JJ Middelburg… - 2006 - elischolar.library.yale.edu
The herbivorous, detrital and microbial pathways are major components of marine food
webs. Although it is commonly recognized that these pathways can be linked in several …

A retrospective analysis of nutrients and phytoplankton productivity in the Mississippi River plume

SE Lohrenz, DG Redalje, WJ Cai, J Acker… - Continental Shelf …, 2008 - Elsevier
Long-term patterns in riverine nutrient flux in the lower Mississippi River were examined in
relationship to spatial and temporal patterns in surface nutrient concentrations, chlorophyll …

A review of water column processes influencing hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico

MJ Dagg, JW Ammerman, RMW Amon, WS Gardner… - Estuaries and …, 2007 - Springer
In this review, we use data from field measurements of biogeochemical processes and
cycles in the Mississippi River plume and in other shelf regions of the northern Gulf of …

Sediment and lower water column oxygen consumption in the seasonally hypoxic region of the Louisiana continental shelf

MC Murrell, JC Lehrter - Estuaries and coasts, 2011 - Springer
We report integrated measurements of sediment oxygen consumption (SOC) and bottom
water plankton community respiration rates (WR) during eight cruises from 2003 to 2007 on …