Land cover changes and fjord morphology under a changing climate have strong effects individual ecosystems as well as shifts in transfer dynamics between interconnected systems. In the article by Schultze et al. (2022), they assess changes in riverine inputs of organic matter (OM) and nutrients for two Norwegian river-to-fjord systems. The results from these two case studies highlight the complex and interacting effects of catchment land-cover, river water chemistry and discharge, fjord morphometry and hydrodynamics in structuring the transport, fate and potential impacts of terrestrially-derived nutrients and organic matter in northern coastal environments.
Paper can be read from the journal website.
Sabrina Schultze, Tom Andersen, Dag O. Hessen, Anders Ruus, Katrine Borgå, Amanda E. Poste, Land-cover, climate and fjord morphology drive differences in organic matter and nutrient dynamics in two contrasting northern river-fjord systems,
Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 270, 107831, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2022.107831.