Credit: Ayushi Kachhara NIWA 2018

Academic publication

Shady business: the darkening of estuaries constrains benthic ecosystem function

Mangan S, Bryan KR, Thrush SF, Gladstone-Gallagher RV, Lohrer AM, & Pilditch CA. (2020) Marine Ecology Progress Series

Highlights

This study considers the implications of altered light climate on microphytobenthic (MPB) production in shallow estuaries.
The research highlights how the interplay between local and global scale stressors may ultimately trigger ecological collapse under future global change.

Keywords

Light limitation, Photosynthesis-irradiance curves, Intertidal, Benthic, Sea-level rise, Hypsometry, Microphytobenthos, Estuary

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