Climate-linked Mechanisms Driving Spatial and Temporal Variation in Eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) Growth and Assemblage Structure in Pacific Northwest Estuaries, U.S.A.

摘要: ABSTRACT Thom, R.; Southard, S., and Borde, A., 2014. Climate-linked mechanisms driving spatial temporal variations in eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) growth assemblage structure Pacific Northwest estuaries, USA. Using laboratory experiments on temperature leaf metabolism, field data sets from Washington, between 1991 2013, we developed lines of evidence showing that water temperature, mean sea level, desiccation stress appear to drive marina). Variations the Oceanic Nino Index (ONI) level (MSL), especially during strong 1997–2001 El Nino-La Nina event, corresponded with rate an intertidal population. Field studies suggested this variation was associated both period temperature. Subtidal shoot density recorded annually over a 10-year lowest warm cool extremes surface These periods corresp...