DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14923
论文题名: Megacity development and the demise of coastal coral communities: Evidence from coral skeleton δ15N records in the Pearl River estuary
作者: Duprey N.N. ; Wang T.X. ; Kim T. ; Cybulski J.D. ; Vonhof H.B. ; Crutzen P.J. ; Haug G.H. ; Sigman D.M. ; Martínez-García A. ; Baker D.M.
刊名: Global Change Biology
ISSN: 13541013
出版年: 2020
卷: 26, 期: 3 语种: 英语
英文关键词: corals
; eutrophication
; megacities
; stable nitrogen isotopes
; urbanization
Scopus关键词: Anthozoa
英文摘要: Historical coral skeleton (CS) δ18O and δ15N records were produced from samples recovered from sedimentary deposits, held in natural history museum collections, and cored into modern coral heads. These records were used to assess the influence of global warming and regional eutrophication, respectively, on the decline of coastal coral communities following the development of the Pearl River Delta (PRD) megacity, China. We find that, until 2007, ocean warming was not a major threat to coral communities in the Pearl River estuary; instead, nitrogen (N) inputs dominated impacts. The high but stable CS-δ15N values (9‰–12‰ vs. air) observed from the mid-Holocene until 1980 indicate that soil and stream denitrification reduced and modulated the hydrologic inputs of N, blunting the rise in coastal N sources during the early phase of the Pearl River estuary urbanization. However, an unprecedented CS-δ15N peak was observed from 1987 to 1993 (>13‰ vs. air), concomitant to an increase of NH4 + concentration, consistent with the rapid Pearl River estuary urbanization as the main cause for this eutrophication event. We suggest that widespread discharge of domestic sewage entered directly into the estuary, preventing removal by natural denitrification hotspots. We argue that this event caused the dramatic decline of the Pearl River estuary coral communities reported from 1980 to 2000. Subsequently, the coral record shows that the implementation of improved wastewater management policies succeeded in bringing down both CS-δ15N and NH4 + concentrations in the early 2000s. This study points to the potential importance of eutrophication over ocean warming in coral decline along urbanized coastlines and in particular in the vicinity of megacities. © 2019 The Authors. Global Change Biology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/159021
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作者单位: Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Otto Hahn Institute, Mainz, Germany; The Swire Institute of Marine Science, The University of Hong Kong, Shek O, Hong Kong; School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong; Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States; Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States
Recommended Citation:
Duprey N.N.,Wang T.X.,Kim T.,et al. Megacity development and the demise of coastal coral communities: Evidence from coral skeleton δ15N records in the Pearl River estuary[J]. Global Change Biology,2020-01-01,26(3)