Thompson, Janet K.

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A cold phase of the East Pacific triggers new phytoplankton blooms in San Francisco Bay Ecological observations sustained over decades often reveal abrupt changes in biological communities that signal altered ecosystem states. We report a large shift in the biological communities of San Francisco Bay, first detected as increasing phytoplankton biomass and occurrences of new seasonal blooms that began in 1999. This phytoplankton increase is paradoxical because it occurred in an era of decreasing wastewater nutrient inputs and reduced nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations, contrary to the guiding paradigm that algal biomass in estuaries increases in proportion to nutrient inputs from their watersheds. Coincidental changes included sharp declines in the abundance of bivalve mollusks, the key phytoplankton... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation
Why are diverse relationships observed between phytoplankton biomass and transport time? Categories: Publication; Types: Citation
POPULATION DENSITY, BIOMASS, AND AGE-CLASS STRUCTURE OF THE INVASIVE CLAM CORBICULA FLUMINEA IN RIVERS OF THE LOWER SAN JOAQUIN RIVER WATERSHED, CALIFORNIA Categories: Publication; Types: Citation
A cold phase of the East Pacific triggers new phytoplankton blooms in San Francisco Bay Ecological observations sustained over decades often reveal abrupt changes in biological communities that signal altered ecosystem states. We report a large shift in the biological communities of San Francisco Bay, first detected as increasing phytoplankton biomass and occurrences of new seasonal blooms that began in 1999. This phytoplankton increase is paradoxical because it occurred in an era of decreasing wastewater nutrient inputs and reduced nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations, contrary to the guiding paradigm that algal biomass in estuaries increases in proportion to nutrient inputs from their watersheds. Coincidental changes included sharp declines in the abundance of bivalve mollusks, the key phytoplankton... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation
POPULATION DENSITY, BIOMASS, AND AGE-CLASS STRUCTURE OF THE INVASIVE CLAM CORBICULA FLUMINEA IN RIVERS OF THE LOWER SAN JOAQUIN RIVER WATERSHED, CALIFORNIA Categories: Publication; Types: Citation

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