Greenhouse gas emissions from SE QLD estuaries

Data associated with the, “Unravelling the drivers of greenhouse
gas emissions in estuaries” project, funded by ARC Linkage Grant
LP150100519.

Contact Naomi Wells
([e-mail]) if you have any questions or queries about
the data. Project Team: Bradley Eyre, Matt Hipsey, Badin Gibbs, Dirk
Erler, Damien Maher, Naomi Wells, Peisheng Huang, Jian-Jhih Chen
(Kenji)

Description:

1) Data is
from surface water surveys carried out in eight estuaries in SE
Queensland, Australia in 03/2016 (wet season) and 10/2016 (dry
season). The estuaries are labelled as No (Noosa River Estuary), Ma
(Maroochy River Estuary), Mo (Mooloolah River Estuary), Ca
(Caboolture River Estuary), Pi (Pine River Estuary), Br (Brisbane
River Estuary, including Oxley Creek, Ox), Lo and Al (Logan/Albert
Rivers Estuary), and Ne (Nerang River Estuary).

2) Data is from ex-situ incubations of intact sediment cores (0-20 cm) from three SE QLD estuary (Noosa River Estuary, Maroochy River Estuary, and Brisbane River Estuary). Cores were collected every ~three months (Dec 2016, Feb 2017, May 2017 & Aug 2017). Incubations were carried out with site water and conditions, and nutrient (NH4+, NO3-, PO43-) and gas (O2, CH4, N2O) fluxes between sediments and surface waters measured over a 12 h dark-light cycle. Cores were collected from different habitats within each estuary: bare mud upstream (S1), bare sand downstream (S2), bare mud downstream (S3), macroalgae vegetation (V1), seagrass Halophila (V2), or seagrass Zostera (V3).

Publications
associated with this data:

Wells, N. S., Erler,
D. V., Maher, D. T., Rosentreter, J., Hipsey, M. R., & Eyre, B.
D. (2018). Estuaries as sources and sinks of N2O across a land‐use
gradient in subtropical Australia Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 32,
877-894. doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2017GB005826

Wells,
N. S., & Eyre, B. D. (2019). δ15N patterns in three sub-tropical
estuaries show switch from nitrogen ‘reactors’ to ‘pipes’
as degradation increases. Limnology and Oceanography, 64, 860-876.
doi:doi: 10.1002/lno.11080

Chen, J.-J., Wells, N. S., Erler, D. V. & Eyre, B. D. 2019. Importance of habitat diversity in benthic metabolism changes over land-use gradients: evidence from three sub-tropical estuaries. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 631, 31-47.

Wells, N.S., Maher, D.T., Huang, P., Erler, D.V., Maxwell, P., Hipsey, M.R. and Eyre, B.D. (2020) Land-use intensity alters both the source and fate of CO2 within eight sub-tropical estuaries. Geochim Cosmochim Ac 268, 107-122.

Wells, N.S., Chen, J-J, Maher, D.T., Huang, P., Erler, D.V., Hipsey, M.R., Eyre, B.D. (in review). Changing sediment and surface water processes increase CH4 emissions from human-impacted estuaries. Geochim Cosmochim Ac

Chen, J.-J., Erler, D.V., Wells, N.S., Huang, J., Welsh, D.T. and Eyre, B.D. (2021) Denitrification, anammox, and dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium across a mosaic of estuarine benthic habitats. Limnol. Oceanogr. n/a.