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Macroinvertebrates And Microbes (Archaea, Bacteria) Offer Complementary Insights Into Mine-Pit Lake Ecology, Melanie L. Blanchette, Richard Allcock, Jahir Gonzalez, Nina Kresoje, Mark Lund
Macroinvertebrates And Microbes (Archaea, Bacteria) Offer Complementary Insights Into Mine-Pit Lake Ecology, Melanie L. Blanchette, Richard Allcock, Jahir Gonzalez, Nina Kresoje, Mark Lund
Research outputs 2014 to 2021
The broad objective of this research was to determine the environmental drivers of macroinvertebrate and microbial assemblages in acidic pit lakes. This is important because pit lake ecosystem development is influenced by prevailing environmental characteristics. Three lakes (Stockton, Kepwari, WO5H) within a larger pit-lake district in Collie, Western Australia were surveyed for spatial variability of benthic macroinvertebrate and microbe (Archaea, Bacteria) assemblage composition as well as potential environmental drivers (riparian condition, aquatic habitat, sediments, and aquatic chemistry) of assemblages. With the exception of sediment chemistry, biophysical variables were significantly different across lakes and reflected riparian condition and groundwater chemistry. Microbial …
Seagrasses Of The North West Of Western Australia: Biogeography And Considerations For Dredging-Related Research: Report Of Theme 5 - Project 5.1.2 Prepared For The Dredging Science Node, Kathryn Mcmahon, John Statton, Paul Lavery
Seagrasses Of The North West Of Western Australia: Biogeography And Considerations For Dredging-Related Research: Report Of Theme 5 - Project 5.1.2 Prepared For The Dredging Science Node, Kathryn Mcmahon, John Statton, Paul Lavery
Research outputs 2014 to 2021
This review was undertaken to identify which seagrass primary producers (species or different functional groups) that collectively cover the bio-geographic range of key primary producers in the northwest of Western Australia are most appropriate for the focus of subsequent research into thresholds and indicators of response to dredging-related pressures (i.e. Theme 5). An assessment framework was developed based on six criteria: biogeographic range; ecological relevance (life-history strategy, habitats, natural dynamics and ecological services); current knowledge on thresholds and bioindicators; likelihood that species are sensitive and resilient to dredging related stressors; extent of improvement in applied knowledge; and likelihood of being …
Seagrass Meadows As A Globally Significant Carbonate Reservoir, I Mazarrasa, N Marbà, O Serrano, C E. Lovelock, Paul S. Lavery, J W. Fourqurean, H Kennedy, M A. Mateo, D Krause-Jensen, A D. Steven, C M. Duarte
Seagrass Meadows As A Globally Significant Carbonate Reservoir, I Mazarrasa, N Marbà, O Serrano, C E. Lovelock, Paul S. Lavery, J W. Fourqurean, H Kennedy, M A. Mateo, D Krause-Jensen, A D. Steven, C M. Duarte
Research outputs 2014 to 2021
There has been growing interest in quantifying the capacity of seagrass ecosystems to act as carbon sinks as a natural way of offsetting anthropogenic carbon emissions to the atmosphere. However, most of the efforts have focused on the particulate organic carbon (POC) stocks and accumulation rates and ignored the particulate inorganic carbon (PIC) fraction, despite important carbonate pools associated with calcifying organisms inhabiting the meadows, such as epiphytes and benthic invertebrates, and despite the relevance that carbonate precipitation and dissolution processes have in the global carbon cycle. This study offers the first assessment of the global PIC stocks in seagrass …