Annual cycle of hypoxia off the Changjiang (Yangtze River) Estuary

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 77, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-5

  Wang, Baodong ^a   Wei, Qinsheng ^a   Chen, Jianfang ^b   Xie, Linping ^a  

^a FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (China)

^b Chongqing Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources   (China)

Author keywords

Changjiang (Yangtze River) Estuary; Dissolved oxygen; East China Sea; Hypoxia; Oxygen depletion; Taiwan Warm Current

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; CHANGJIANG ESTUARY; EAST CHINA SEA; HYPOXIA; OXYGEN DEPLETION; SEASONAL CHANGES; WATER COLUMNS; YANGTZE RIVER;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN;

ESTUARIES;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; WATER;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; OCEANIC CURRENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING (SEASON); STRATIFICATION; SUMMER; WATER COLUMN;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ESTUARY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HYPOXIA OFF; RIVER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; SUMMER; WATER AND WATER RELATED PHENOMENA; WINTER;

CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXYGEN; SEASONS; SEAWATER; WATER MOVEMENTS;

CHINA; EAST CHINA SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; YANGTZE ESTUARY; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 84862827321     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: 18790291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2011.12.007     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Beardsley R.C., Limeburner R., Yu H., Cannon G.A. Discharge of the Changjiang (Yangtze River) into the East China Sea. Cont. Shelf Res. 1985, 4:57-76.
2. Chen C.C., Gong G.C., Shiah F.K. Hypoxia in the East China Sea: one of the largest coastal low-oxygen areas in the world. Mar. Environ. Res. 2007, 64(4):399-408.
3. Chen D., Zhang L., Liu H., Li Z. Distribution characteristics and correlating factors analysis of dissolved oxygen in spring and summer in the Yangtze Estuary. Mar. Environ. Sci. 2008, 27(Supp. 1):49-53. (in Chinese with English abstract).
4. Chu Z.X., Zhai S.K., Lu X.X., Liu J.P., Xu J.X., Xu K.H. A quantitative assessment of human impacts on decrease in sediment flux from major Chinese rivers entering the western Pacific Ocean. Geophys. Res. Lett. 2009, 36:L19603.
5. Cloern J.E. Our evolving conceptual model of the coastal eutrophication problem. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 2001, 210:223-253.
6. Dai M.H., Guo X.H., Zhai W.D., Yuan L.Y., Wang B.W., Wang L.F., Cai P.H., Tang T.T., Cai W.J. Oxygen depletion in the upper reach of the Pearl River estuary during a winter drought. Mar. Chem. 2006, 102:159-169.
7. Diaz R.J., Rosenberg R. Marine benthic hypoxia: a review of its ecological effects and the behavioral responses of benthic macrofauna. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 1995, 33:245-303.
8. Diaz R.J., Rosenberg R. Spreading Dead Zones and consequences for marine ecosystems. Science 2008, 321:926-929.
9. Gilbert D., Sundby B., Gobeil C., Mucci A., Tremblay G. A seventy-two-year record of diminishing deep-water oxygen in the St. Lawrence estuary: the northwest Atlantic connection. Limnol. Oceanogr. 2005, 50(5):1654-1666.
10. Grasshoff K., Ehrhardt M., Kremling K. Methods of Seawater Analysis 1999, Verlag Chemie, Weinheim. third ed.
11. Guan B. Patterns and structures of the currents in Bohai, Huanghai and East China Seas. Oceanology of China Seas 1994, vol. 1:17-26. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands. D. Zhou, Y.B. Liang, C.K. Zeng (Eds.).
12. Li D., Zhang J., Huang D., Wu Y., Liang J. Oxygen depletion off the Changjiang (Yangtze River) Estuary. Sci. China (Ser. D Earth Sci.) 2002, 45(12):1137-1146.
13. Li X., Bianchi T.S., Yang Z., Osterman L.E., Allison M.A., DiMarco S.F., Yang G. Historical trends of hypoxia in Changjiang River estuary: applications of chemical biomarkers and microfossils. J. Mar. Syst. 2011, 86:57-68.
14. Rabalais N.N., Gilbert D. Distribution and consequences of hypoxia. Watersheds, Bays and Bounded Seas 2009, 209-226. Island Press, Washington, DC. E. Urban, B. Sundby, P. Malanotte-Rizzoli, J.M. Melillo (Eds.).
15. Rabalais N.N., Turner R.E., Wiseman W.J. Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico. J. Environ. Qual. 2001, 30:320-329.
16. Turner R.E., Rabalais N.N., Swenson E.M., Kasprzak M., Romaire T. Summer hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico and its prediction from 1978 to 1995. Mar. Environ. Res. 2005, 59:65-77.
17. Wang B. Hydromorphological mechanisms leading to hypoxia off the Changjiang estuary. Mar. Environ. Res. 2009, 67:53-58.
18. Wei H., He Y., Li Q., Liu Z., Wang H. Summer hypoxia adjacent to the Changjiang Estuary. J. Mar. Syst. 2007, 69:292-303.
19. Yin K., Lin Z., Ke Z. Temporal and spatial distribution of dissolved oxygen in the Pearl River Estuary and adjacent coastal waters. Cont. Shelf Res. 2004, 24:1935-1948.
20. Zhou F., Huang D., Ni X., Xuan J., Zhang J., Zhu K. Hydrographic analysis on the multi-time scale variability on hypoxia adjacent to the Changjiang River estuary. Acta Ecol. Sin. 2010, 30(17):4728-4740. (in Chinese with English abstract).
21. Zhu Z.-Y., Zhang J., Wu Y., Zhang Y.-Y., Lin J., Liu S.-M. Hypoxia off the Changjiang (Yangtze River) Estuary: oxygen depletion and organic matter decomposition. Mar. Chem. 2011, 125:108-116.
22. Zou J., Yang G., Liu J., Shi X. Features in distribution of dissolved oxygen in the Changjiang estuary and adjacent coastal waters in September. Advan. Mar. Sci. 2008, 26(1):65-73. (in Chinese with English abstract).