Jennifer Hauxwell

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review features of macroalgal blooms pointed out in recent literature and summarize work done in the Waquoit Bay Land Margin Ecosystems Research project which suggests that nutrient loads, water residence times, presence of fringing salt marshes, and grazing affect macroalgae blooms.

TL;DR: It is concluded that macroalgal cover is a proximate cause for loss of eelgrass in the higher N estuary since, upon removal of macroalgae, there is an increase in shoot density, a 55% increase in summer growth, and a 500% increased in summer aboveground net production.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explicitly link changes in community structure of estuarine primary producers to measured nitrogen loading rates from watersheds to estuaries, and quantify the relationship between nitrogen load, annual dynamics of algal growth and Zostera marina L productivity, and over- all eelgrass decline at the watershed-estuarine scale in the Waquoit Bay, Massachusetts, USA.

TL;DR: In this article, the relative importance of bottom-up and top-down processes under different nutrient loading conditions was investigated in three estuaries in Waquoit Bay, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, that are subject to different nitrogen loading rates.

TL;DR: Case studies from Waquoit Bay and Lake Okeechobee support conceptual models of succession from vascular plants to benthic algae to phytoplankton along gradients of increasing nutrients and decreasing under-water irradiance and identify other complex interactions among the autotrophs that may influence ecosystem response to cultural eutrophication.