Effects of surrounding land use and water depth on seagrass dynamics relative to a catastrophic algal bloom.
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Seagrasses are the foundation of many coastal ecosystems and are in global decline because of anthropogenic impacts. For the Indian River Lagoon (Florida, U.S.A.), we developed competing multistate statistical models to quantify how environmental factors (surrounding land use, water depth, and time [year]) influenced the variability of seagrass state dynamics from 2003 to 2014 while accounting for time-specific detection probabilities that quantified our ability to determine seagrass state at particular locations and times. We classified seagrass states (presence or absence) at 764 points with geographic information system maps for years when seagrass maps were available and with aerial photographs when seagrass maps were not available. We used 4 categories (all conservation, mostly conservation, mostly urban, urban) to describe surrounding land use within sections of lagoonal waters, usually demarcated by land features that constricted these waters. The best models predicted that surrounding land use, depth, and year would affect transition and detection probabilities. Sections of the lagoon bordered by urban areas had the least stable seagrass beds and lowest detection probabilities, especially after a catastrophic seagrass die-off linked to an algal bloom. Sections of the lagoon bordered by conservation lands had the most stable seagrass beds, which supports watershed conservation efforts. Our results show that a multistate approach can empirically estimate state-transitio…
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The following year, brown tide (Aureoumbra lagunensis) in the northern Indian River Lagoon again impaired seagrass growth, resulting in still more losses.
“The following year, brown tide (Aureoumbra lagunensis) in the northern IRL again impaired seagrass growth, resulting in still more losses (Gobler et al., 2013;Phlips et al., 2015;Breininger et al., 2017;Morris et al., 2018).”
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- Authors
- Breininger, D. R., Breininger, R. D., & Hall, C. R.
- Affiliations
- Kennedy Space Center (US)
- Florida Institute of Technology (US)
- Corresponding author
- Breininger, David R.
- ORCID
- Breininger, David R.
- Venue
- Conservation Biology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2016-10-07
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 67-75
- ISSN
- 0888-8892 (ISSN-L)
- 1523-1739
- OpenAlex
- W2466619368
- Cited by
- 16
- References
- 60
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 2 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 1.89
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Conservation Biology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Marine and coastal plant biology
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Keywords
- seagrass dynamics, land use, water depth, algal blooms, seagrass die-off, Indian River Lagoon, multi-state models, state transition probabilities, detection probability, urbanization, watershed protection, seagrass mapping, lagoons
- MeSH terms
- Conservation of Natural Resources, Eutrophication, Florida, Water, Ecosystem
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