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Effects of Hurricane Katrina on benthic macroinvertebrate communities along the northern Gulf of Mexico coast

Effects of Hurricane Katrina on benthic macroinvertebrate communities along the northern Gulf of Mexico coast,10.1007/s10661-008-0677-8,Environmental

Effects of Hurricane Katrina on benthic macroinvertebrate communities along the northern Gulf of Mexico coast (Citations: 3)


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The effects of Hurricane Katrina on benthic fauna and habitat quality in coastal waters of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, USA, were assessed in October, 2005, 2 months after the hurricane made landfall between New Orleans, LA and Biloxi, MS. Benthic macrofaunal samples, sediment chemical concentrations, and water quality measurements from 60 sites in Lake Pontchartrain and Mississippi Sound were compared with pre-hurricane conditions from 2000–2004. Post-hurricane benthic communities had significant reductions in numbers of taxa, H′ diversity, and abundance as well as shifts in composition and ranking of dominant taxa. These effects were not associated with changes in chemical contamination, organic enrichment of sediments, or hypoxia and were likely due to hurricane-related scouring and changes in salinity.

Journal: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment - ENVIRON MONIT ASSESS , vol. 150, no. 1, pp. 193-209, 2009

DOI: 10.1007/s10661-008-0677-8

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- ...During storm events in the Gulf of Mexico, scouring of the sediment and salinity changes have been identified as the primary factors contributing to changes in the diversity and abundance of benthic macrofauna communities difficult (Mallin et al., 1999; Engle et al., 2009)...
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Factors Influencing the Salinity Regime of Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, a Shallow Coastal Lagoon: Analysis of a Long-Term Data Set (Citations: 16)

Journal: Estuaries , vol. 8, no. 2, 1985

A benthic index of environmental condition of Gulf of Mexico estuaries (Citations: 83)

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Journal: Estuaries , vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 372-384, 1994

Refinement, validation, and application of a benthic condition index for Northern Gulf of Mexico estuaries (Citations: 47)

Journal: Estuaries , vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 624-635, 1999

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Journal: Continental Shelf Research - CONT SHELF RES , vol. 10, pp. S43-S43, 2011

Sediment quality in near coastal waters of the Gulf of Mexico: Influence of Hurricane Katrina (Citations: 1)

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Journal: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry - ENVIRON TOXICOL CHEM , vol. 29, no. 7, pp. 1403-1408, 2010

Comparison of an inactive submarine spring with an active nearshore anchialine spring in Florida

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Journal: Hydrobiologia , pp. 1-23

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