Nutrient and ecosystem dynamics in Ireland's only marine nature reserve (NEIDIN)
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Nutrient levels, particularly nitrogen, in Lough Hyne and coastal waters are substantially higher than a decade ago. The atomic ratio of N:P in coastal waters exceeds the 16:1 ratio for optimum phytoplankton growth, suggesting that the coastal environment is P limited. Potentially toxic dinoflagellate abundance also correlates with nitrogen loading, indicating that high N levels are favouring dinoflagellate production. Enrichment of the coastal waters is a wider problem than initially thought, and is adversely affecting a number of areas in the south-west of Ireland. Recommend monitoring of N levels in Irish coastal waters and determining relative contributions of ammonia, nitrate, nitrite, dissolved organic, inorganic, particulate etc forms to total nitrogen pool to identify sources of N, and highlight seasonal changes in their contribution to phytoplankton blooms. Recommended that infrastructure funding be sought for deployment of automated samplers in strategic locations to monitor nutrients and water quality parameters
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| SAFER-Data Display URL | https://eparesearch.epa.ie/safer/iso19115/display?isoID=195 |
| Resource Keywords | Lough Hyne, Nutrients, Eutrophication, chlorophyll, Pseudo-nitzschia |
| EPA/ERTDI/STRIVE Project Code | 2007-FS-B-4-M5 |
| EPA/ERTDI/STRIVE Project Theme | Water Quality |
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| Number of Attached Files (Publicly and Openly Available for Download): | 3 |
| Project Start Date | Tuesday 1st January 2008 (01-01-2008) |
| Earliest Recorded Date within any attached datasets or digital objects | Tuesday 1st January 2008 (01-01-2008) |
| Most Recent Recorded Date within any attached datasets or digital objects | Thursday 31st December 2009 (31-12-2009) |
| Published on SAFER | Thursday 9th December 2010 (09-12-2010) |
| Date of Last Edit | Thursday 9th December 2010 at 10:54:42 (09-12-2010) |
| Datasets or Files Updated On | Thursday 9th December 2010 at 10:54:42 (09-12-2010) |
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Water quality parameters (Total N, Total P, Total Si, Chlorophyll-a) measured from integrated water sample from surface-10m depth. Water temperature and dissolved oxygen measured at 1m intervals from surface to bottom depth. Phytoplankton species and abundance from integrated water sample (0-10m). Phytoplankton preserved in acidified Lugols solution and identified under inverted microscope at 200-400x magnification. Location is Lough Hyne - a semi-enclosed marine lake situated 3 miles west of Skibereen and some 50 miles from Cork City in Southwest Ireland. It measures just 0.8 km by 0.6 km and it is believed that the Lough was a freshwater lake up to 4000 years ago, when a rise in sea levels joined it with the sea. It is now a highly sheltered, seawater basin connected to the North Atlantic Ocean via a narrow inlet called Barloge Creek.
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| The EU Water Framework Directive sets a framework for the comprehensive management of all water resources within the European Community with its fundamental objective being the prevention of any deterioration in the existing status of waters and achieving at least the ?good status? of all waters by 2015. A lack of baseline data is potentially critical in terms of future biodiversity monitoring and potential climate change issues. Lough Hyne is a very popular tourist attraction especially during the summer months and the need for confidence in the water quality is obviously of interest with regards to human health. However, concerns over the nutrient input and water quality of the Lough Hyne Marine Reserve have been expressed by academic and government officers (NPWS). Necrotic patches amongst the Jewel anemone Corynactis viridis within the Lough have been reported and this may be a sign of nutrient enrichment or increased sedimentation levels |
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| Ohter collaborating authors: Dr Rob McAllen r.mcallen@ucc.ie,Dr Tom Kelly, t.kelly@ucc.ie and Prof John O'Halloran, j.ohalloran@ucc.ie
Comunity analysis conducted with PRIMER6 statistical software. Other statistical analysis used MINITAB. Special thanks to Kevin Barry for production of 2-dimensional hydrodynamic model of Lough Hyne Pending publications: Jessopp, M., McAllen, R., O?Halloran, J., Kelly, T., & Gregory, S. Top-down and bottom-up processes in structuring phytoplankton assemblages determined using dilution experiments; Jessopp, M., McAllen, R., O?Halloran, J., Kelly, T., & Harman, L The effect of environmental variability on phytoplankton composition and community structure in coastal waters of southwest Ireland |
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