Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a potent greenhouse gas. In North China, vegetable fields are amended with high levels of N fertilizer and irrigation water, which causes massive N2O flux. The aim of this study was to determine the contribution of microbial processes to N2O production and characterize isotopic signature effects on N2O source partitioning. We conducted a microcosm study that combined natu...

Here, we report the draft genome sequence of the estuarine Synechococcus sp. strain CB0101. The genomics information of this strain will facilitate the study of the poorly understood Synechococcus subcluster 5.2 and how this strain is capable of thriving in a dynamic estuarine system, such as the Chesapeake Bay.

Selective tidal-streaming is a model frequently used to explain how planktonic larvae invade estuaries. The ability of larvae to move vertically in the water column to selectively ride favourable currents and maintain ground gained is critical to this process. The mud crab (Scylla serrata) is a widely distributed, commercially and recreationally important portunid crab but little is known about...

Multivariate patterns in commercial fisheries landings, effort and revenue from three adjacent estuarine and coastal systems were examined in eastern Australia between 9-month periods of flood (September 2000–May 2001) and drought (September 2002–May 2003). Patterns in species landings, methods of fishing effort and revenue per species were significantly different between flood and drought. Spe...

STOCK DEFINITION AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE The coastal morphotype of bottlenose dolphin is continuously distributed along the Atlantic coast south of Long Island, New York, to the Florida peninsula, including inshore waters of the bays, sounds and estuaries. Except for animals residing within the Southern North Carolina and Northern North Carolina Estuarine Systems (e.g., Waring et al. 2007), estuar...

Abiotic processes of nitrogen (N) are suggested to contribute nitrous oxide (N2O) production; however, the important role these in N2O emissions is invariably ignored. This review synthesized main abiotic hydroxylamine and nitrite associated biogeochemical controls estuarine coastal ecosystems. availably detected environments. The more production than environments, suggesting that plays an prod...

Nitrate (NO3−) dissimilatory reduction processes (denitrification, anammox and NO3− to ammonium (DNRA)) in estuarine coastal ecosystems play a crucial role regulating reactive nitrogen loadings. However, nitrate process rates relative proportions along the salinity gradient remain poorly understood. Here, denitrification, DNRA were explored simultaneously Yangtze Estuary based on isotope-tracin...

Despite suggestions that extensive mixing and large-scale transport of organic matter occurs within estuarine systems and across fluvial-estuarine-coastal ecotones (Teal 1962, Odum 1980), more recent evidence in estuarine detritus-based food web systems has shown strong gradients in the sources of organic matter assimilated by consumers across diverse fluvial-estuarine-coastal ocean scales (Pet...

STOCK DEFINITION AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE The coastal morphotype of bottlenose dolphin is continuously distributed along the Atlantic coast south of Long Island, New York, to the Florida peninsula, including inshore waters of the bays, sounds and estuaries. Except for animals residing within the Southern North Carolina and Northern North Carolina Estuarine Systems (e.g., Waring et al. 2007), estuar...