期刊
ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE
卷 188, 期 -, 页码 27-37出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2017.02.001
关键词
Nitrogen; Eutrophication; Estuary; Brown tide; Salinity; Temperature
资金
- National Sea Grant Office [NA14OAR4170102]
- Texas Coastal Management Program Grant
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration award [NA14NOS4190139]
- NOAA's National Center for Coastal Ocean Science [NA15NOS4780185]
- Texas Water Development Board [1600011924]
- Celanese Corporation
- Kleberg County
- Coastal Conservation Association
- Saltwater Fisheries Enhancement Association
- Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program
Studies of estuarine eutrophication have tended to focus on systems with continually flowing rivers, while little is known about estuaries from semi-arid/aridregions. Here we report results from an assessment of water quality conditions in Baffin Bay, Texas, a shallow (<2-3 m) subtropical estuary located in a semi-arid region that has agriculture as the dominant (44%) watershed land use. Chlorophyll a averaged 28-30 mu g/1 in Baffin Bay from 2003 to 2013 and total Kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN) concentrations were also very high (116-120 mu M), with concentrations of both variables exceeding those of most other Texas estuaries by 2-5 fold. More recent field sampling (2013-2015) showed that dissolved organic nitrogen concentrations in Baffin Bay (62 14 mu M) were >2 fold higher than in three other Texas estuaries. In contrast, inorganic nitrogen (ammonium, nitrate) and phosphate concentrations were relatively low. Statistically significant long-term annual increases in chlorophyll a and salinity were observed in Baffin Bay, while long-term seasonal increases were observed for water temperature and TKN. Overall, Baffin Bay is displaying multiple symptoms of eutrophication, namely very high organic carbon, organic nitrogen and chlorophyll concentrations, as well as symptoms not quantified here such as fish kills and episodic hypoxia. Much of the increase in chlorophyll in Baffin Bay, at least since similar to 1990, have coincided with blooms of the mixotrophic phytoplankton species, Aureoumbra lagunensis, which is thought to be favored under high proportions of organic to inorganic nitrogen. Thus the high and possibly increasing organic nitrogen concentrations, coupled with a long-term annual increase in salinity and a long-term seasonal increase in water temperature are likely to promote additional brown tide blooms in this system in the future. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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