Assessing the response of the Great South Bay plankton community to Hurricane Sandy
Gobler CJ and Young Cs. Assessing the response of the Great South Bay plankton community to Hurricane Sandy
The south shore of Long Island in lined by barrier islands that have been breached by ocean waters dozens of times during the past 300 years. On October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy created a new ocean inlet in eastern Great South Bay (GSB) that has had a strong effect on the circulation and salinity in GSB. The effects of the inlet on resident plankton communities were unknown. This project provides a detailed description of the changes in GSB and Moriches Bay plankton communities caused by the new inlet and the spatial and temporal extent of those changes.
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- Project
- Authors
- Gobler, Christopher; Young, Craig
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- FIIS
- Keywords
- breach, Great South Bay, Hurricane Sandy, NCBN, plankton