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Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series—Ocean Variability: Aquatic Time Series
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Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series—Ocean Variability: Aquatic Time Series

A special issue of Oceans (ISSN 2673-1924).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2024) | Viewed by 4156

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Michael W. Lomas

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Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME 04544, USA
Interests: phytoplankton; marine biogeochemistry; elemental stoichiometry; primary production; nitrogen cycling; sub/arctic systems; sub/tropical systems
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Prof. Dr. Claudia Benitez-Nelson

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School of the Earth, Ocean & Environment, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
Interests: biogeochemistry; marine radioactivity; phosphorus cycling; particle formation and export

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Coastal, shelf and ocean systems display variability in physical, biological and chemical parameters over a range of time scales.  This variability presents challenges when trying to assess if observed changes are driven by environmental change or other factors.

We are pleased to announce this Collection titled “Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series—Ocean Variability: Aquatic Time Series”. This issue will be a collection of research papers contributions in all disciplines relating to aquatic time series measurements and observations. The aim of this Collection is to address topics that improve our understanding of change in aquatic systems. Topics relevant to this Collection include, but are not limited to, direct and remote observational measurements, modeling studies, and other novel observational platforms that assess temporal changes in aquatic systems. Articles on topics of interest to scientists, policymakers, and the general public will be considered for publication.

Dr. Michael W. Lomas
Prof. Dr. Claudia Benitez-Nelson
Guest Editors

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Keywords

Time series
Ocean change
Observation platforms
Biogeochemistry
Plankton
Ecosystem response

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Seagrass-Associated Biodiversity Influences Organic Carbon in a Temperate Meadow
by Lowri O’Neill, Bettina Walter and Richard K. F. Unsworth
Oceans 2024, 5(4), 874-888; https://doi.org/10.3390/oceans5040050 - 5 Nov 2024
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There is increasing interest in the role that seagrasses play in storing carbon in the context of climate mitigation, but many knowledge gaps in the factors controlling this storage exist. Here, we provide a small case study that examines the role of infaunal [...] Read more.
There is increasing interest in the role that seagrasses play in storing carbon in the context of climate mitigation, but many knowledge gaps in the factors controlling this storage exist. Here, we provide a small case study that examines the role of infaunal biodiversity in influencing seagrass and the carbon stored in its sediments. A total of 25 species of invertebrate were recorded in an intertidal Zostera marina meadow, where these species were dominated by polychaete worms with no bivalves present. We find organic carbon storage (within the top 20 cm) measured by AFDW to be highly variable within a small area of seagrass meadow ranging from 2961 gC.m−2 to 11,620 gC.m−2 with an average (±sd) of 64602 ± 3274 gC.m−2. Our analysis indicates that infaunal communities are significantly and negatively correlated with this sediment organic carbon. However, this effect is not as influential as hypothesised, and the relatively small sample size of the present study limits its ability to provide strong causality. Other factors, such as algal abundance, curiously had a potentially stronger influence on the carbon in the upper sediments. The increasing richness of infauna is likely reducing the build-up of organic carbon, reducing its ecosystem service role. We believe this to likely be the result of bioturbation by specific species such as Arenicola marina and Ampharete acutifrons. A change in sediment organic carbon suggests that these species could be key drivers of bioturbator-initiated redox-driven organic matter turnovers, influencing the microbial processes and remobilizing sediment compounds. Bioturbators should be considered as a limitation to Corg storage when managing seagrass Corg stocks; however, bioturbation is a natural process that can be moderated when an ecosystem is less influenced by anthropogenic change. The present study only provides small-scale correlative evidence with a range of surprising results; confirming these results within temperate seagrasses requires examining this process at large spatial scales or with targeted experiments. Full article
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Mapping Topic Evolution across the 40-Year-Old Long-Term Ecological Research MareChiara Site in the Gulf of Naples, Italy
by Luca Russo, Carola Murano and Domenico D’Alelio
Oceans 2024, 5(3), 591-610; https://doi.org/10.3390/oceans5030034 - 20 Aug 2024
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The forty-year-old Long-Term Ecological Research MareChiara (LTER-MC) program started on 26 January 1984, with fortnightly oceanographic sampling until 1991 and then, from 1995, with weekly sampling up to the present time. LTER-MC produced >150 publications that have been cited by thousands of other [...] Read more.
The forty-year-old Long-Term Ecological Research MareChiara (LTER-MC) program started on 26 January 1984, with fortnightly oceanographic sampling until 1991 and then, from 1995, with weekly sampling up to the present time. LTER-MC produced >150 publications that have been cited by thousands of other studies. In this scoping review, we analyzed this corpus using a semantic approach based on topic modeling, a machine-driven procedure to identify and map topics and their interactions. Understanding the causes behind the evolution of scientific topics, their emergence, splitting, hybridization, or merging within a scientific community is an important step in science policy in managing collaborative research and bringing it into the future. Across different topics, mainly represented by studies on Natural History, Biodiversity, Phenology, Life Cycles, and Community Ecology, the LTER-MC work expanded the knowledge on planktonic organisms, describing in detail their lifestyles and delineating their relationships with environmental conditions. In presenting these results, the potential strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats connected to the overall scientific dimension of LTER-MC are discussed. Finally, the upcoming effort is envisioned in reinforcing internal collaboration to integrate basic and applied research around scientific investigations suitable for establishing a stronger interaction between science and policy, as indicated by the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. Full article
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