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Eutrophication of Chesapeake Bay: historical trends and ecological interactions

Marine Ecology Progress Series · 2005 · Vol. 303 · pp. 1–29

WM Kemp✉(University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science)Walter R. Boynton(University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science)JE Adolf(University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science)DF Boesch(University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science)WC Boicourt(University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science)Grace S. Brush(Johns Hopkins University)Jeffrey C. Cornwell(University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science)TR Fisher(University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science)Patricia M. Glibert(University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science)JD Hagy(Environmental Protection Agency)LW Harding(University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science)ED Houde(University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science)David G. Kimmel(University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science)W. David Miller(University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science)R. I. E. Newell(University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science)MR Roman(University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science)EM Smith(University of South Carolina)J. Court Stevenson(University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science)

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Abstract

Chesapeake Bay is a large estuary which has undergone many changes in its ecological properties and processes in response to nutrient enrichment over the last 2 centuries. Susceptibility of the Bay to eutrophication arises in part from the long dendritic shoreline that intimately connects it to its large watershed (covering an area 15 times that of the Bay) which contains expanding human population centers and extensive agricultural activities.

Marine and environmental studies Marine and coastal plant biology Marine Biology and Ecology ResearchChesapeake bayEutrophicationEstuaryEcologyBayGeographyEnvironmental scienceOceanographyArchaeologyBiology