Freshwater Inflows to Texas Bays and Estuaries
Estuaries are defined by mixing of river and sea water, thus freshwater inflow is a key driver of estuary ecosystem structure and function. While there is much concern about water quality, there is much less about water quantity. As water is diverted for human use, less is flowing to the coast, whic...
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| description | Estuaries are defined by mixing of river and sea water, thus freshwater inflow is a key driver of estuary ecosystem structure and function. While there is much concern about water quality, there is much less about water quantity. As water is diverted for human use, less is flowing to the coast, which threatens estuary ecosystems. Some jurisdictions are now setting inflow standards, but there is no consensus on how to identify how much freshwater an estuary needs. There is a climatic gradient along the northwestern Gulf of Mexico coast and estuaries vary from hydrologically positive to neutral to negative, and this makes the Texas coast the ideal place to study how ecological processes vary with freshwater inflow. An estuary comparison approach is used in this open access work to examine hydrology, circulation, salinity, nutrients, carbonate, dissolved oxygen, plankton, nekton, benthos, and habitat dynamics and responses across varying hydrological regimes. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1507332025-07-21T15:44:18Z Freshwater Inflows to Texas Bays and Estuaries Montagna, Paul A. Douglas, Audrey R. Estuary Environmental flow Freshwater inflow Biogeochemistry Productivity thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAF Ecological science, the Biosphere thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAF Ecological science, the Biosphere Estuaries are defined by mixing of river and sea water, thus freshwater inflow is a key driver of estuary ecosystem structure and function. While there is much concern about water quality, there is much less about water quantity. As water is diverted for human use, less is flowing to the coast, which threatens estuary ecosystems. Some jurisdictions are now setting inflow standards, but there is no consensus on how to identify how much freshwater an estuary needs. There is a climatic gradient along the northwestern Gulf of Mexico coast and estuaries vary from hydrologically positive to neutral to negative, and this makes the Texas coast the ideal place to study how ecological processes vary with freshwater inflow. An estuary comparison approach is used in this open access work to examine hydrology, circulation, salinity, nutrients, carbonate, dissolved oxygen, plankton, nekton, benthos, and habitat dynamics and responses across varying hydrological regimes. 2025-01-30T07:45:22Z 2025-01-30T07:45:22Z 2025-01-13T13:43:55Z 2025 book ONIX_20250113_9783031708824_12 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/96985 9783031708824 9783031708817 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/150733 eng Estuaries of the World open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/96985/1/9783031708824.pdf Springer Nature Springer Nature Switzerland 10.1007/978-3-031-70882-4 10.1007/978-3-031-70882-4 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a b2748009-4c39-45df-8a57-10cc0ca1ac71 9783031708824 9783031708817 Springer Nature Switzerland 411 Cham [...] open access |
| spellingShingle | Estuary Environmental flow Freshwater inflow Biogeochemistry Productivity thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAF Ecological science, the Biosphere thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAF Ecological science, the Biosphere Freshwater Inflows to Texas Bays and Estuaries |
| title | Freshwater Inflows to Texas Bays and Estuaries |
| title_full | Freshwater Inflows to Texas Bays and Estuaries |
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| title_short | Freshwater Inflows to Texas Bays and Estuaries |
| title_sort | freshwater inflows to texas bays and estuaries |
| topic | Estuary Environmental flow Freshwater inflow Biogeochemistry Productivity thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAF Ecological science, the Biosphere thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAF Ecological science, the Biosphere |
| topic_facet | Estuary Environmental flow Freshwater inflow Biogeochemistry Productivity thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAF Ecological science, the Biosphere thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAF Ecological science, the Biosphere |
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