As part of a WRRC project lead by Leah Bremer, a team of University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa researchers, including Henrietta Dulai and Celia Smith, compiled results of previous hydrological and algal studies to investigate the relationship between SGD and algal species in southeast O‘ahu and used those findings to illustrate the urgent need to improve the situation and prevent further coastal ecosystem deterioration. (click here to view the full article)
Find out more about this study in the December 2021 edition of Limnology and Oceanography Letters — Risk to native marine macroalgae from land-use and climate change-related modifications to groundwater discharge in Hawaiʻi. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10232
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