Did multiple sediment-associated stressors contribute to the 1999 lobster mass mortality event in western Long Island Sound, USA?

Estuaries

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 529-540

  Valente, Raymond M ^a,c   Cuomo, Carmela ^b,d  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SeaRay Environmental   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPOXIA; LOBSTER; MORTALITY;

LONG ISLAND SOUND; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

HOMARUS AMERICANUS; LOBSTER;

EID: 25844473434     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02696064     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. ANDERSON, T. H. AND G. T. TAYLOR. 2001. Nutrient pulses, plankton blooms, and seasonal hypoxia in western Long Island Sound. Estuaries 24:228-243.
2. BOESCH, D. F. AND N. N. RABALAIS. 1991. Effects of hypoxia on continental shelf benthos: Comparisons between the New York Bight and Northern Gulf of Mexico, p. 27-34. In R. V. Tyson and T. H. Pearson (eds.), Modern and Ancient Continental Shelf Anoxia. Geological Society Special Publication 58, London, U.K.
3. BREITBURG, D. L., J. W. BAXTER, C. A. HATFIELD, R. W. HOWARTH, C. G. JONES, G. M. LOVETT, AND G. WIGAND. 1998. Understanding the effects of multiple stressors: Ideas and challenges, p. 416-431. In M. L. Pace and P. M. Groffman (eds.), Successes, Limitations, and Frontiers in Ecosystem Science. Springer-Verlag, New York.
4. CLINE, J. D. 1969. Spectrophotometric determination of hydrogen sulfide in natural waters. Limnology and Oceanography 14:454-458.
5. CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (CT DEP). 2000a. Information regarding the impact of 1999 lobster mortalities in Long Island Sound. Bureau of Natural Resources, Marine Fisheries Office, Old Lyme, Connecticut.
6. CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (CT DEP). 2000b. Long Island Sound ambient water quality monitoring program: summer hypoxia monitoring survey 1991-1998 data review. Bureau of Water Management, Hartford, Connecticut.
7. COOPER, R. A. AND J. R. UZMANN. 1980. Ecology of juvenile and adult Homarus americanus, p. 97-142. In J. S. Cobb and B. F. Phillips (eds.), The Biology and Management of Lobsters, Volume 2 Academic Press, New York.
8. CUOMO, M. C. 1984. The ecological and paleoecological significance of sulfides in marine sediments. Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
9. CUOMO, M. C. 1985. Sulfide as a larval settlement cue for Capitella sp I. Biogeochemistry 1:169-181.
10. DAUER, D. M., A. J. RODI, AND J. A. RANASINGHE. 1992. Effects of low dissolved oxygen events on the macrobenthos of the lower Chesapeake Bay. Estuaries 15:384-391.
11. DAY, M. E., L. C. SCHAFFNER, AND R. J. DIAZ. 1987. Long Island Sound sediment quality survey and analyses. Final Report to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. National Ocean Service, Rockville, Maryland.
12. DIAZ, R. J. AND R. ROSENBERG. 1995. Marine benthic hypoxia: A review of its ecological effects and the behavioural responses of benthic macrofauna. Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review 33:245-303.
13. DIAZ, R. J. AND L. C. SCHAFFNER. 1988. Comparison of sediment landscapes in the Chesapeake Bay as seen by surface and profile imaging, p. 222-240. In M. P. Lynch and E. C. Krome (eds.), Understanding the Estuary: Advances in Chesapeake Bay Research, Chesapeake Bay Research Consortium Publication 129, Chesapeake Bay Program 24/88. Chesapeake Research Consortium, Solomons, Maryland.
14. FENCHEL, T. 1969. The ecology of marine microbenthos. IV. Structure and function of the benthic ecosystem, its chemical and physical factors and microfauna communities with special reference to the ciliated Protozoa. Ophelia 6:1-182.
15. FONSELIUS, S., D. DYRSSEN, AND B. YHLEN. 1969. Determination of hydrogen sulfide, p. 91-100. In K. Grasshoff, K. Kremling, and M. Ehrhardt (eds.), Methods of Seawater Analysis, 3rd edition Wiley-VCH, Germany.
16. FREDETTE, T. J. AND G. T. FRENCH. 2004. Understanding the physical and environmental consequences of dredged material disposal: History in New England and current perspectives. Marine Pollution Bulletin 49:93-102.
17. HARPER, D. E., L. D. MCKINNEY, J. M. NANCE, AND R. R. SALZER. 1991. Recovery response of two benthic assemblages following an acute hypoxic event on the Texas continental shelf, northwestern Gulf of Mexico, p. 49-64. In R. V. Tyson and T. H. Pearson (eds.), Modern and Ancient Continental Shelf Anoxia. Geological Society Special Publication, London, U.K.
18. KARAKASSIS, I., M. TSAPAKIS, C. J. SMITH, AND H. RUMOHR. 2002. Fish farming impact in the Mediterranean studied through sediment profiling imagery. Marine Ecology Progress Series 227:125-133.
19. KNEZOVICH, J. P., D. J. STEICHEN, J. A. JELINSKI, AND S. L. ANDERSON. 1996. Sulfide tolerance of four marine species used to evaluate sediment and porewater toxicity. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 57:450-457.
20. LLANSO, R. J. 1991. Tolerance of low dissolved oxygen and hydrogen sulfide by the polychaete Steblospio benedicti (Webster). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 153:165-178.
21. LYLE, M. 1983. The brown-green color transition in marine sediments: A marker of the Fe(III)-Fe(II) redox boundary. Limnology and Oceanography 28:1026-1033.
22. MCCALL, P. 1977. Community patterns and adaptive strategies of the infaunal benthos of Long Island Sound. Journal of Marine Research 35:221-266.
23. MCCLEESE, D. W. 1956. Effects of temperature, salinity, and oxygen on the survival of the American lobster. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 13:247-272.
24. MCCLEESE, D. W. 1970. Behavior of lobsters exposed to bleached kraft mill effluent. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 27:731-736.
25. 2S in seawater as a function of temperature, pH, and ionic strength. Environmental Science and Technology 27:439-448.
26. NILSSON, H. C. AND R. ROSENBERG. 1994. Hypoxic response of two marine benthic communities. Marine Ecology Progress Series 115:209-217.
27. NILSSON, H. C. AND R. ROSENBERG. 1997. Benthic habitat quality assessment of an oxygen stressed fjord by surface and sediment profile images. Journal of Marine Systems 11:249-264.
28. PARKER, C. A. AND J. E. O'REILLY. 1991. Oxygen depletion in Long Island Sound: A historical perspective. Estuaries 14:248-264.
29. PARSONS, T. R., Y. MAITA, AND C. M. LALLI. 1984. A manual of chemical and biological methods for seawater analysis. Pergamon Press, New York.
30. PEARSON, T. H. AND R. ROSENBERG. 1978. Macrobenthic succession in relation to organic enrichment and pollution of the marine environment. Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review 16:229-311.
31. PENKOFF, S. J. AND F. P. THURBERG. 1982. Changes in oxygen consumption of the American lobster, Homarus americanus, during the molt cycle. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 72A:621-622.
32. POPPE, L. J., H. J. KNEBEL, Z. J. MLODZINSKA, M. E. HASTINGS, AND B. A. SEEKINS. 2000. Distribution of surficial sediment in Long Island Sound and adjacent waters: Texture and total organic carbon. Journal of Coastal Research 16:567-574.
33. RHOADS, D. C. AND L. F. BOYER. 1982. The effects of marine benthos on physical properties of sediments, p. 3-52. In P. L. McCall and M. J. S. Tevesz (eds.), Animal-Sediment Relations: The biogenic alteration of sediments. Plenum Press, New York.
34. RHOADS, D. C. AND S. CANDE. 1971. Sediment profile camera for in situ study of organism-sediment relations. Limnology and Oceanography 16:110-114.
35. RHOADS, D. C. AND J. D. GERMANO. 1982. Characterization of organism-sediment relations using sediment profile imaging: An efficient method of Remote Ecological Monitoring of the Seafloor (REMOTS System). Marine Ecology Progress Series 8:115-128.
36. RHOADS, D. C. AND J. D. GERMANO. 1986. Interpreting long-term changes in benthic community structure: A new protocol. Hydrobiologia 142:291-308.
37. ROSENBERG, R., H. C. NILSSON, AND R. J. DIAZ. 2001. Response of benthic fauna and changing sediment redox profiles over a hypoxic gradient. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 53:343-350.
38. SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (SAIC). 1987. REMOTS reconnaissance mapping of near-bottom dissolved oxygen: Central to western Long Island Sound August 1986. Prepared for U.S. EPA Region I, Water Management Division, SAIC Report No. 87/7502&132. Boston, Massachusetts.
39. SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (SAIC). 1988. REMOTS reconnaissance mapping of near-bottom dissolved oxygen and benthic facies: Long Island Sound August 1987. Prepared for U.S. EPA Region I, Water Management Division, SAIC Report No. 88/7502&175. Boston, Massachusetts.
40. SCHAFFNER, L. C., P. JONSSON, R. J. DIAZ, R. ROSENBERG, AND P. GAPCYNSKI. 1992. Benthic communities and bioturbation history of estuarine and coastal systems: Effects on hypoxia and anoxia. Science of the Total Environment, (Supplemental. 1992):1001-1016.
41. STROBEL, C. J., H. W. BUFFUM, S. J. BENYI, E. A. PETROCELLI, D. R. REIFSTECK, AND D. J. KEITH. 1995. Statistical Summary: EMAP Estuaries Virginian Province, 1990-1993. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Report No. EPA/620/R-94/026, Narragansett, Rhode Island.
42. TYSON, , R. V. AND T. H. PEARSON (EDS.). 1991.Modern and ancient continental shelf anoxia. Geological Society Special Publication 58, London.
43. VALENTE, R. M. 2004. The role of seafloor characterization and benthic habitat mapping in dredged material management: A review. Journal of Marine Environmental Engineering 7:185-215.
44. VALENTE, R. M., S. M. MCCHESNEY, AND G. HODGSON. 1999. Benthic recolonization following cessation of dredged material disposal in Mirs Bay, Hong Kong. Journal of Marine Environmental Engineering 5:257-288.
45. VALENTE, R. M., D. C. RHOADS, J. D. GERMANO, AND V. J. CABELLI. 1992. Mapping of benthic enrichment patterns in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. Estuaries 15:1-17.
46. VISMANN, B. 1991. Sulfide tolerance: Physiological mechanisms and ecological implications. Ophelia 34:1-27.
47. WANG, F. AND P. M. CHAPMAN. 1999. Biological implications of sulfide in sediment - A review focusing on sediment toxicity. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 18:2526-2532.
48. WELSH, B. L. AND F. C. ELLER. 1991. Mechanisms controlling summertime oxygen depletion in western Long Island Sound. Estuaries 14:265-278.
49. WELSH, B. L., R. I. WELSH, AND M. L. DIGIACOMO-COHEN. 1994. Quantifying hypoxia and anoxia in Long Island Sound, p. 131-137. In K. R. Dyer and R. J. Orth (eds.), Changes in Fluxes in Estuaries: Implications for Science and Management. Olsen and Olsen, Friedensborg, Denmark.
50. YOUNG-LAI, W. W., M. CHARMANTIER-DAURES, AND G. CHARMANTIER. 1991. Effects of ammonia on survival and osmoregulation in different life stages of the lobster, Homarus americanus. Marine Biology 110:293-300.