Orlando Lam-Gordillo, Judi E Hewitt, Emily J Douglas, Bruce D Dudley, Steven J Holmes, Sarah Hailes, Kelly Carter, Barry Greenfield, Tarn Drylie, Andrew M Lohrer
Understanding the responses of organisms to different environmental drivers is critical for improving ecosystem management and conservation. Estuarine ecosystems are under pressure from multiple anthropogenic stressors (e.g. increasing sediment and nutrient loads, pollution, climate change) that are affecting the functions and services these ecosystems provide. Here, we used long-term estuarine benthic invertebrate monitoring data (∼30 year time-series) to evaluate the responses of macrobenthic invertebrate communities and indicator species to climatic, oceanic, freshwater, and local environmental drivers in New Zealand estuaries...
March 21, 2024: Marine Environmental Research