nach oben

Erschienen in:

2017 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

17. Inferring Environmental Change in Estuaries from Plant Macrofossils

verfasst von : John Tibby, Carl D. Sayer

Erschienen in: Applications of Paleoenvironmental Techniques in Estuarine Studies

Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Einloggen

Aktivieren Sie unsere intelligente Suche, um passende Fachinhalte oder Patente zu finden.

search-config

KI-gestützte Suche

Aus

Abstract

Aquatic plants are critical components of estuarine ecosystems supporting biodiversity and a range of ecosystem services such as sediment stabilisation and denitrification. However, estuarine plants, similar to their freshwater counterparts, are in decline and under threat. The examination of remains of aquatic plants in sediment records can document the fate of the plants themselves, along with numerous natural and anthropogenic changes in estuaries, including those associated with relative sea level change, pollution and habitat degradation. In comparison with other proxies, the use of macrofossils in estuaries is in its relative infancy. However, many approaches to the examination of plant macrofossils in estuaries can be utilised from the freshwater domain where a number of advances have been made, particularly in the past decade.

Sie haben noch keine Lizenz? Dann Informieren Sie sich jetzt über unsere Produkte:

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

über 102.000 Bücher
über 537 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

Automobil + Motoren
Bauwesen + Immobilien
Business IT + Informatik
Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
Finance + Banking
Management + Führung
Marketing + Vertrieb
Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe
Versicherung + Risiko

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

Jetzt informieren

Springer Professional "Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

über 67.000 Bücher
über 390 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

Automobil + Motoren
Bauwesen + Immobilien
Business IT + Informatik
Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

Jetzt informieren

Vorheriges Kapitel Corals in Estuarine Environments: Their Response to Environmental Changes and Application in Reconstructing Past Environmental Variability

Nächstes Kapitel Applications of Pollen Analysis in Estuarine Systems

Adam P (2012) Introduction. In: Sainty GR, Hosking J, Carr G et al (eds) Estuary plants and what’s happening to them in south-east Australia. Sainty and Associates, Potts Point, NSW, Australia, pp 4–35

Agardy T, Alder J, Dayton P et al (2005) Coastal systems. In: Hassan R, Scholes R, Ash N (eds) Ecosystems and human well-being: current state and trends: findings of the condition and trends working group. Island Press, Washington, pp 513–549

Alongi DM (2008) Mangrove forests: resilience, protection from tsunamis and responses to global climate change. Estuar Coast Shelf Sci 76:1–13CrossRef

Andersen TJ (2017) Some practical considerations regarding the application of ₂₁₀Pb and ₁₃₇Cs dating to estuarine sediments. In: Weckström K, Saunders KM, Gell PA, Skilbeck CG (eds) Applications of paleoenvironmental techniques in estuarine studies, Developments in paleoenvironmental research 20. Springer, Dordrecht

Appleby PG, Birks HH, Flower RJ et al (2001) Radiometrically determined dates and sedimentation rates for recent sediments in nine North African wetland lakes (the CASSARINA project). Aquat Ecol 35:347–367CrossRef

Baker RGV, Haworth RJ (2000) Smooth or oscillating late Holocene sea-level curve? Evidence from cross-regional statistical regressions of fixed biological indicators. Mar Geol 163:353–365CrossRef

Behre KE (1986) Analysis of botanical macro-remains. In: Plassche O (ed) Sea-level research. Springer, Dordrecht. pp 413–433

Belperio AP, Harvey N, Bourman RP (2002) Spatial and temporal variability in the Holocene sea-level record of the South Australian coastline. Sediment Geol 150(1–2):153–169CrossRef

Beltman B, Allegrini C (1997) Restoration of lost aquatic plant communities: new habitats for Chara. Neth J Aquat Ecol 30:331–337CrossRef

Bennike O (1995) Palaeoecology of two lake basins from Disko, West Greenland. J Quat Sci 10:149–155CrossRef

Bennike O, Jensen JB, Lemke W (2001) Late Quaternary records of Najas spp. (Najadaceae) from the southwestern Baltic region. Rev Palaeobot Palynol 114:259–267CrossRef

Bennike O, Jensen JB, Lemke W et al (2004) Late- and postglacial history of the Great Belt, Denmark. Boreas 33:18–33CrossRef

Bennike O, Wagner B, Richter A (2011) Relative sea level changes during the Holocene in the Sisimiut area, south-western Greenland. J Quat Sci 26:353–361CrossRef

Birks HH (1973) Modern macrofossil assemblages in lake sediments in Minnesota. In: Birks HJB, West RG (eds) Quaternary plant ecology. Blackwell, Oxford, pp 173–190

Birks HH (2001) Plant macrofossils. In: Smol JP, Birks HJB, Last WM (eds) Tracking environmental change using lake sediments, vol 3: terrestrial, algal and siliceous indicators. Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp 49–74

Birks HH (2002) The recent extinction of Azolla nilotica in the Nile Delta, Egypt. Acta Palaeobot 42:203–213

Birks HJ (2014) Challenges in the presentation and analysis of plant-macrofossil stratigraphical data. Veg Hist Archaeobotany 23:309–330CrossRef

Birks HH, Whiteside MC, Stark DM et al (1976) Recent paleolimnology of three lakes in Northwestern Minnesota. Quat Res 6:249–272CrossRef

Birks HH, Birks HJB, Flower RJ et al (2001a) Recent ecosystem dynamics in nine North African lakes in the CASSARINA project. Aquat Ecol 35:467–478

Birks HH, Peglar S, Boomer I et al (2001b) Palaeolimnological responses of nine North African lakes in the CASSARINA Project to recent environmental changes and human impact detected by plant macrofossil, pollen, and faunal analyses. Aquat Ecol 35:405–430CrossRef

Blindow I (2000) Distribution of charophytes along the Swedish coast in relation to salinity and eutrophication. Int Rev Hydrobiol 85:707–717CrossRef

Borowitzka MA, Lavery PS, van Keulen, M (2006) Epiphytes on seagrasses. In: Larkum AWD, Orth RJ, Duarte CM (eds) Seagrasses: biology, ecology and conservation. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 441–461

Bradshaw EG, Rasmussen P, Nielsen H et al (2005) Mid- to late-Holocene land-use change and lake development at Dallund Sø, Denmark: trends in lake primary production as reflected by algal and macrophyte remains. Holocene 15:1130–1142CrossRef

Bromberg Gedan KB, Silliman BR, Bertness MD (2009) Centuries of human-driven change in salt marsh ecosystems. Ann Rev Mar Sci 1:117–141CrossRef

Brush GS, Davis FW (1984) Stratigraphic evidence of human disturbance in an estuary. Quat Res 22:91–108CrossRef

Cappers RTJ (1993) Seed dispersal by water: a contribution to the interpretation of seed assemblages. Veg Hist Archaeobotany 2:176–186CrossRef

Carvalho L, Bingham N, Martin A (2000) Lagoonal charophyte conservation: a palaeoecological approach. Proc Int Assoc Theor Appl Limnol 27:884–886

Clark JS, Patterson WA III (1985) The development of a tidal marsh: upland and oceanic influences. Ecol Monogr 55:189–217CrossRef

Clarke GH, Sayer CD, Turner S et al (2014) Spatial representation of aquatic vegetation change by plant macrofossils in a small and shallow freshwater lake. Veg Hist Archaeobotany 23:265–276CrossRef

Davidson TA, Sayer CD, Bennion H et al (2005) A 250 year comparison of historical, macrofossil and pollen records of aquatic plants in a shallow lake. Freshw Biol 50:1671–1686CrossRef

Desroches MB, Lavoie M, Lavoie C (2013) Establishing the value of a salt marsh as a potential benchmark: vegetation surveys and paleoecological analyses as assessment tools. Botany 91:774–785CrossRef

Dibble KL, Meyerson LA (2014) The effects of plant invasion and ecosystem restoration on energy flow through salt marsh food webs. Estuar Coasts 37:339–353CrossRef

Dick J, Haynes D, Tibby J et al (2011) A history of aquatic plants in the Coorong, a Ramsar-listed coastal wetland, South Australia. J Paleolimnol 46:623–635CrossRef

Dieffenbacher-Krall AC, Nurse AM (2005) Late-glacial and Holocene record of lake lvels of Mathews Pond and Whitehead Lake, Northern Maine, USA. J Paleolimnol 34:283–309CrossRef

Digerfeldt G (1988) Reconstruction and regional correlation of Holocene lake-level fluctuations in Lake Bysjon, south Sweden. Boreas 17:165–182

Donnelly JP, Bertness MD (2001) Rapid shoreward encroachment of salt marsh cordgrass in response to accelerated sea-level rise. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98:14218–14223CrossRef

Ellegaard M, Dale B, Mertens KN et al (2017) Dinoflagellate cysts as proxies for holocene environmental change in estuaries: diversity, abundance and morphology. In: Weckström K, Saunders KM, Gell PA, Skilbeck CG (eds) Applications of paleoenvironmental techniques in estuarine studies, Developments in paleoenvironmental research 20. Springer, Dordrecht

Eyre BD, Maher DT, Squire P (2013) Quantity and quality of organic matter (detritus) drives N₂ effluxes (net denitrification) across seasons, benthic habitats, and estuaries. Glob Biogeochem Cycles 27:1083–1095CrossRef

Flower RJ (2001) Change, stress, sustainability and aquatic ecosystem resilience in North African wetland lakes during the 20th century: an introduction to integrated biodiversity studies within the CASSARINA project. Aquat Ecol 35:261–302CrossRef

Freund H, Gerdes G, Streif H et al (2004) The indicative meaning of diatoms, pollen and botanical macro fossils for the reconstruction of palaeoenvironments and sea-level fluctuations along the coast of Lower Saxony; Germany. Quat Int 112:71–87CrossRef

Garcia A (1994) Charophyta: their use in paleolimnology. J Paleolimnol 10:43–52CrossRef

García A (1999) Charophyte flora of south-eastern south Australia and south-western Victoria, Australia: systematics, distribution and ecology. Aust J Bot 47:407–426CrossRef

Gedan KB, Silliman BR, Bertness MD (2009) Centuries of human-driven change in salt marsh ecosystems. Ann Rev Mar Sci 1:117–141

Glew J, Smol JP, Last WM (2001) Sediment core collection and extrusion. In: Last WM, Smol JP (eds) Tracking environmental change using lake sediments, vol 1: basin analysis, coring, and chronological techniques. Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, pp 73–105

Goman M (2001) Statistical analysis of modern seed assemblages from the San Francisco Bay: applications for the reconstruction of paleo-salinity and paleo-tidal inundation. J Paleolimnol 24:393–409CrossRef

Hopkins DR, Parker VT (1984) A study of the seedbank of a salt marsh in Northern San Francisco Bay. Am J Bot 71:348–355CrossRef

Inglis GJ (1999) Variation in the recruitment behaviour of seagrass seeds: implications for population dynamics and resource management. Pac Conserv Biol 5:251–259CrossRef

International Union for the Conservation of Nature [IUCN] (2010) IUCN Red List of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Accessed 5 July 2014

Leyden E, Tibby J, García A et al (2011) Unexpected post-settlement freshening and increase in charophytes in Bombah Broadwater (Myall Lakes, New South Wales, Australia). J Paleolimnol 46:637–647CrossRef

Madgwick G, Emson D, Sayer CD et al (2011) Centennial-scale changes to the aquatic vegetation structure of a shallow eutrophic lake and implications for restoration. Freshw Biol 56:2620–2636CrossRef

Martin A, Carvalho L, Downie AJ (2002) Rare harophytes in Scotland’s coastal saline lagoons. Bot J Scotl 54:23–35CrossRef

Milton WEJ (1939) The occurrence of buried viable seeds in soils at different elevations in a salt marsh. J Ecol 27:149–159CrossRef

Mitsch WJ, Gosselink JG (2007) Wetlands, 4th edn. Wiley, New York

Montefalcone M (2009) Ecosystem health assessment using the Mediterranean seagrass Posidonia oceanica: a review. Ecol Indic 9:595–604CrossRef

Odgaard BV, Rasmussen P (2001) The occurrence of egg-cocoons of the leech Piscicola geometra (L.) in recent lake sediments and their relationship with remains of submerged macrophytes. Arch Hydrobiol 152:671–686CrossRef

Orth RJ, Carruthers TJB, Dennison WC et al (2006) A global crisis for seagrass ecosystems. BioScience 56:987–996CrossRef

Patmore IR, Sayer CD, Goldsmith B et al (2014) Big Ben: a new wide bore piston corer for multi-proxy paleolimnology. J Paleolimnol 51:79–86CrossRef

Paton DC, Rogers DJ, Hill BM et al (2009) Temporal changes to spatially-stratified waterbird communities of the Coorong, South Australia: implications for the management of heterogeneous wetlands. Anim Conserv 12:408–417CrossRef

Rodrigo MA, Alonso-Guillén JL, Soulié-Märsche I (2010) Reconstruction of the former charophyte community out of the fruitifications identified in Albufera de Valéncia lagoon sediments. Aquat Bot 92:14–22CrossRef

Rumsfeld D (2002) Department of Defense (USA) news briefing. www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=2636. Accessed 20 Dec 2013

Sayer CD, Burgess A, Kari K et al (2010) Long-term dynamics of submerged macrophytes and algae in a small and shallow, eutrophic lake: implications for the stability of macrophyte-dominance. Freshw Biol 55:565–583CrossRef

Short FT, Polidoro B, Livingstone SR et al (2011) Extinction risk assessment of the world’s seagrass species. Biol Conserv 144:1961–1971CrossRef

Skilbeck CG, Trevathan-Tackett S, Apichanangkool P et al (2017) Sediment sampling in estuaries—site selection and sampling techniques. In: Weckström K, Saunders KM, Gell PA, Skilbeck CG (eds) Applications of paleoenvironmental techniques in estuarine studies, Developments in paleoenvironmental research 20. Springer, Dordrecht

Sparrenbom CJ, Bennike O, Fredh D et al (2013) Holocene relative sea-level changes in the inner Bredefjord area, southern Greenland. Quat Sci Rev 69:107–124CrossRef

Sritrairat S, Peteet DM, Kenna TC et al (2012) A history of vegetation, sediment and nutrient dynamics at Tivoli North Bay, Hudson Estuary, New York. Estuar Coast Shelf Sci 102–103:24–35CrossRef

Taffs KH, Saunders KM, Weckström K et al (2017) Introduction to the application of palaeoecological techniques in estuaries. In: Weckström K, Saunders KM, Gell PA, Skilbeck CG (eds) Applications of paleoenvironmental techniques in estuarine studies, Developments in paleoenvironmental research 20. Springer, Dordrecht

Torn K, Martin G, Kotta J et al (2010) Effects of different types of mechanical disturbances on a charophyte dominated macrophyte community. Estuar Coast Shelf Sci 87:27–32CrossRef

Watson EB, Wasson K, Pasternack GB et al (2011) Applications from paleoecology to environmental management and restoration in a dynamic coastal environment. Restor Ecol 19:765–775CrossRef

Waycott M, Procaccini G, Les DH et al (2006) Seagrass evolution, ecology and conservation: a genetic perspective. In: Larkum AWD, Orth RJ, Duarte CM (eds) Seagrasses: biology, ecology and conservation. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp 25–50

Waycott M, Duarte CM, Carruthers TJB et al (2009) Accelerating loss of seagrasses across the globe threatens coastal ecosystems. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:12377–12381CrossRef

Weckström K, Lewis JP, Andrén E et al (2017) Palaeoenvironmental history of the Baltic Sea—one of the largest Brackish-water ecosystems in the world. In: Weckström K, Saunders KM, Gell PA, Skilbeck CG (eds) Applications of paleoenvironmental techniques in estuarine studies, Developments in paleoenvironmental research 20. Springer, Dordrecht

Wells CE, Wheeler BD (1999) Evidence for possible climatic forcing of late-Holocene vegetation changes in Norfolk Broadland floodplain mires, UK. Holocene 9:595–608CrossRef

Zhao Y, Sayer CD, Birks HH et al (2006) Spatial representation of aquatic vegetation by macrofossil and pollen remains in a small and shallow lake. J Paleolimnol 35:335–350CrossRef

Titel: Inferring Environmental Change in Estuaries from Plant Macrofossils
verfasst von: John Tibby
Carl D. Sayer
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Buch: Applications of Paleoenvironmental Techniques in Estuarine Studies
Print ISBN: 978-94-024-0988-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-94-024-0990-1

Copyright-Jahr: 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0990-1_17