Spatial heterogeneity and oil pollution structured the soil microbial community in salt marshes in Barataria Bay, Louisiana, USA, eight years after the Deepwater …

GA Cagle, H Chen, JW Fleeger, D Deis, Q Lin… - Ecological Indicators, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill significantly impacted salt marsh
ecosystems, with numerous repercussions observed in the subsequent years. However, the …

Mercury concentrations in Seaside Sparrows and Marsh Rice Rats differ across the Mississippi River Estuary

A Bonisoli-Alquati, AK Jackson, CA Eagles-Smith… - Ecotoxicology, 2024 - Springer
Mercury (Hg) concentrations and their associated toxicological effects in terrestrial
ecosystems of the Gulf of Mexico are largely unknown. Compounding this uncertainty, a …

Stable isotope mixing models demonstrate the role of an invasive plant in wetland songbird food webs

RD Wigginton, C Van Grootheest… - Applications in Plant …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Premise Invasive plants in wetlands are often ecosystem engineers, mediating changes in
ecosystem functions like trophic support. We documented the impacts of Lepidium latifolium …

Diet and disturbance: Seaside Sparrow resource use driven by oiling and Hurricane Isaac

AM Snider, A Bonisoli-Alquati… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) disaster led to extensive oil deposition in Louisiana's
coastal wetlands, followed two years later by Hurricane Isaac. These disturbances led to …

Sex and habitat drive hantavirus prevalence in marsh rice rat populations impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

AA Pérez‐Umphrey, CB Jonsson… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bayou orthohantavirus (BAYV) is one of several hantaviruses in the United States that cause
hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in humans. Its host reservoir, the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys …

Recovery of saltmarsh macroinfauna after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

M Pant, J Fleeger, D Johnson, R Riggio, A Hou, D Deis - 2024 - researchsquare.com
To examine invertebrate resiliency after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, we monitored
the recovery of macroinfauna in replicated reference, moderately and heavily oiled salt …

A Mathematical Explanation for Why Ratio-Based Isotopic Analyses are Commonly Misleading: Theory

K Moots, CP Nguyen, C Nguyen, F Camacho… - 2024 - researchsquare.com
Stable mass isotopic ratios (such as 13 C: 12 C, 15 N: 14 N, 18 O: 16 O 87 Sr: 86 Sr and 34
S: 32 S) are used to interpret archaeological, climate change, ecological, geological, and …