Nitrogen-15 Signals of Anthropogenic Nutrient Loading in Reef Corals

By J. Heikoop, M. Risk, A. V. Lazier, E. Edinger, J. Jompa, G. Limmon, J. J. Dunn, D. Browne, H. Schwarcz. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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• Bacterial communities inhabiting the healthy tissues of two Caribbean reef corals: interspecific and spatial variation (2005, background): “urban center of Willemstad is consistent with Heikoop et al. (2000b) , which demonstrated that on average the d 15 No fPorites lobata tissues in the Indo-Pacific is”
• Mollusc Shell Encrustation and Bioerosion Rates in a Modern Epeiric Sea: Taphonomy Experiments in the Java Sea, Indonesia (2002, background): “Pulau Panjang is a nearshore coral cay, with about 80% carbonate content, subject to anthropogenic eutrophication from sewage, agricultural runoff, and aquacultural effluent (Edinger et al., 1998; Heikoop et al., 2000).”
• Fine‐scale mapping of land‐derived nitrogen in coral reefs by δ15N in macroalgae (2002, background): “Heikoop et al. (2000b) also reported that no clear d15N sewage signals were found about 1 km away from the city, Zanzibar, probably because of rapid dilution by seawater.”
• Anthropogenic nutrient enrichment of seagrass and coral reef communities in the Lower Florida Keys: discrimination of local versus regional nitrogen sources (2004, background): “For reef corals, tissue is typically enriched in N by up to + 5x at sewage polluted, eutrophied sites relative to reference sites (Risk et al., 1993; Mendes et al., 1997; Heikoop et al., 2000).”
• Temporal and spatial variation in the δ15N and δ13C of coral tissue and zooxanthellae in Montastraea faveolata collected from the Florida reef tract (2005, background): “Studies of the d15N of coral tissue have mainly concentrated on their potential as indicators of anthropogenic waste (Heikoop et al. 2000a), although Muscatine and Kaplan (1994) also investigated d15N as an indicator of autotrophic and heterotrophic responses.”