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Plankton Ecology and Biodiversity in the Bahía Blanca Estuary

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The Bahía Blanca Estuary

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The Bahía Blanca Estuary encompasses an extensive flat area covered by islands, saltmarshes, mudflats, and tidal channels. This spatial heterogeneity confers to the ecosystem the capacity to hold large biodiversity; in particular, the estuary is an important habitat for numerous permanent and migratory species of commercial and ecological importance, including fishes, birds, invertebrates, and mammals. Due to its interconnection with land, large gradients of salinity, nutrients, organic carbon, and turbidity characterize the inner part of the estuary where plankton has developed eco-physiological adaptations to sustain natural populations. In addition, urban and industrial settlements within this area pose additional threats to plankton communities. In recent years, however, specific plankton groups have revealed profound changes, denoting that the present rate of environmental change is exceeding the adaptive capacity of organisms. This chapter provides a comprehensive long-term examination of the main planktonic groups (phytoplankton, microzooplankton, mesozooplankton, and jellyfish), their species diversity, and temporal and spatial dynamics. This section further examines the ecological adaptations of plankton to survive under wide environmental gradients and identifies main biological shifts, including the introduction of invasive species, species replacement, low reproductive capacity, phenological changes, and the biomass decline of specific plankton groups in the last 40 years. Experimental and long-term field observations allowed the attribution of such changes to multiple interactive effects of environmental drivers, highlighting rising water turbidity and temperature, eutrophication, pollution, and expansion of exotic species as the main sustain drivers. The assessment of environmental variability and trend feedback provides the baseline to identify key plankton vulnerabilities and to delineate effective mitigation plans within the Bahía Blanca Estuary.

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