ArticleEnvironmental monitoring and assessment2009
Effects of Hurricane Katrina on benthic macroinvertebrate communities along the northern Gulf of Mexico coast.
Article in Environmental monitoring and assessment, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Invertebrates at the Land-Sea Interface in a Climate Change World: Heatwaves, Floods, Fire and Ice.Global change biology · 2026Review
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- Polychaete Community of a Marine Protected Area along the West Coast of India-Prior and Post the Tropical Cyclone, Phyan.PloS one · 2016Article
- Sediment Contaminants and Infauna Associated with Recreational Boating Structures in a Multi-Use Marine Park.PloS one · 2015Article
- Temporal and spatial variability in culturable pathogenic Vibrio spp. in Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, following hurricanes Katrina and Rita.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2011Article
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Abstract
The effects of Hurricane Katrina on benthic fauna and habitat quality in coastal waters of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, USA, were assessed in October, 2005, 2 months after the hurricane made landfall between New Orleans, LA and Biloxi, MS. Benthic macrofaunal samples, sediment chemical concentrations, and water quality measurements from 60 sites in Lake Pontchartrain and Mississippi Sound were compared with pre-hurricane conditions from 2000-2004. Post-hurricane benthic communities had significant reductions in numbers of taxa, H(') diversity, and abundance as well as shifts in composition and ranking of dominant taxa. These effects were not associated with changes in chemical contamination, organic enrichment of sediments, or hypoxia and were likely due to hurricane-related scouring and changes in salinity.
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