The influence of freshwater inflow and seascape context on occurrence of juvenile spotted seatrout Cynoscion nebulosus across a temperate estuary. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 Spotted seatrout, a popular recreational sport fish in the southeastern United States, are affected by freshwater flow conditions and the availability of estuarine habitat.
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EDIS, 2020 Florida’s Apalachicola Bay has long been known for its oyster harvesting and processing industry, but a steady decline in oyster landings in the Bay has threatened the industry.
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Comparative Genomic Analysis of Three Pseudomonas Species Isolated from the Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Tissues, Mantle Fluid, and the Overlying Estuarine Water Column [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2021 The eastern oysters serve as important keystone species in the United States, especially in the Gulf of Mexico estuarine waters, and at the same time, provide unparalleled economic, ecological, environmental, and cultural services.
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Resilience of coastal wetlands to extreme hydrologic events in Apalachicola Bay
Geophysical Research Letters, 2016 Extreme hydrologic events such as hurricanes and droughts continuously threaten wetlands which provide key ecosystem services in coastal areas. The recovery time for vegetation after impact from these extreme events can be highly variable depending on ...
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Modeled Sea Level Rise Impacts on Coastal Ecosystems at Six Major Estuaries on Florida's Gulf Coast: Implications for Adaptation Planning. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model (SLAMM) was applied at six major estuaries along Florida's Gulf Coast (Pensacola Bay, St. Andrews/Choctawhatchee Bays, Apalachicola Bay, Southern Big Bend, Tampa Bay and Charlotte Harbor) to provide quantitative and ...
Laura L Geselbracht +4 more
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Holocene evolution of Apalachicola Bay, Florida [PDF]
Geo-Marine Letters, 2009 A program of geophysical mapping and vibracoring was conducted to better understand the geologic evolution of Apalachicola Bay. Analyses of the geophysical data and sediment cores along with age control provided by 34 AMS 14C dates on marine shells and wood reveal the following history.
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 Apalachicola Bay, an estuary located in northwest Florida, is likely to experience a continuing increase in the severity of the effects of changing climate and human-induced stressors, such as sea level rise and changes in freshwater inflow.
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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022 Globally, mangrove range limits are expanding, often at the cost of adjacent coastal ecosystems including saltmarshes, potentially leading to a change in ecosystem services such as organic carbon (OC) sequestration.
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Validation of Oil Trajectory and Fate Modeling of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Trajectory and fate modeling of the oil released during the Deepwater Horizon blowout was performed for April to September of 2010 using a variety of input data sets, including combinations of seven hydrodynamic and four wind models, to determine the ...
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The curious case of eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica stock status in Apalachicola Bay, Florida
Ecology and Society, 2015 The Apalachicola Bay, Florida, eastern oyster ( Crassostrea virginica ) industry has annually produced about 10% of the U.S. oyster harvest. Today’s simple individual-operator, hand-tonging, small-vessel fishery is remarkably similar to the one that ...
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