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{"title":"Correction to “Seasonal Patterns of Microbial Diversity Across the World Oceans”","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/lol2.70111","DOIUrl":"10.1002/lol2.70111","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 <span>Raes, E. J.</span>, <span>S. Myles</span> <span>L. MacNeil</span>, et al. <span>2024</span>. “ <span>Seasonal Patterns of Microbial Diversity Across the World Oceans</span>.” <i>Limnology and Oceanography Letters</i> <span>9</span>: <span>512</span>–<span>523</span>. https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10422.</p><p>Corrections are listed below for this article after its publication in 2024.</p><p>The Parada et al. reference and citation are corrected to year 2015 from 2016.</p><p>Some of the affiliations were wrong and the correct affiliations for all co-authors are listed below.</p><p>Eric J. Raes^1,2,3,*, Shannon Myles¹, Liam MacNeil⁴, Matthias Wietz^5,6, Christina Bienhold^5,6, Karen Tait⁷, Paul J. Somerfield^7↟, Andrew Bissett⁸, Jodie van de Kamp⁸, Josep M. Gasol⁹, Ramon Massana⁹, Yi-Chun Yeh¹⁰, Jed A. Fuhrman¹¹, Julie LaRoche^1,*</p><p>1. Dept. of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada</p><p>2. Minderoo Foundation, Perth, Australia</p><p>3. The UWA Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia</p><p>4. GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany</p><p>5. Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany</p><p>6. Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany</p><p>7. Plymouth Marine Laboratory, United Kingdom</p><p>8. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia</p><p>9. Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC. Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain</p><p>10. Carnegie Institution of Science at Stanford, California, United States</p><p>11. University of Southern California Department of Biological Sciences, California, United States</p><p>↟A dedication to Paul Somerfield (1963–2023).</p><p>*Correspondence: <span>[email protected]</span>, <span>[email protected]</span></p><p>These corrections have been made to the original article.</p><p>We apologize for these errors.</p>","PeriodicalId":18128,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography Letters","volume":"11 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lol2.70111","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147288452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Aquatic reflectance derived from Sentinel-2 Multispectral Imager data for inland waters in the conterminous United States","authors":"Scott D. Ducar,&nbsp;Tyler V. King,&nbsp;Michael F. Meyer,&nbsp;Stephen A Hundt,&nbsp;Grady P. Ball,&nbsp;Konrad C. Hafen,&nbsp;Dulcinea M. Avouris,&nbsp;Brendan F. Wakefield,&nbsp;Victoria G. Stengel,&nbsp;Quinten Vanhellemont","doi":"10.1002/lol2.70112","DOIUrl":"10.1002/lol2.70112","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Satellite-based earth observation is a robust tool for tracking change in ecosystems. While terrestrially focused applications of remote sensing have empowered wide adoption for research and management, remote sensing of inland aquatic ecosystems remains comparably nascent. This divergence, in part, stems from the lack of standardized, accessible, and near real-time remotely sensed surface reflectance, atmospherically corrected for aquatic environments. To date, surface reflectance products at national scales and with minimal latency are typically designed exclusively for terrestrial environments. Rectifying this situation can be accomplished by applying aquatic-focused atmospheric correction algorithms independent of those used for terrestrial ecosystems. As a first step to filling this data gap, we present the first national scale, dynamically updated, analysis-ready, aquatic reflectance dataset for inland water derived from Sentinel-2 for the conterminous United States.</p>","PeriodicalId":18128,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography Letters","volume":"11 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lol2.70112","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146778408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Quantifying methane emissions from Laurentian Great Lakes estuaries using in situ measurements, remote sensing, and machine learning","authors":"Jillian Greene,&nbsp;Ashtyn Gluck,&nbsp;Bopaiah Biddanda,&nbsp;Michael Philben,&nbsp;Sean Woznicki","doi":"10.1002/lol2.70099","DOIUrl":"10.1002/lol2.70099","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Freshwater estuaries are natural contributors to the carbon cycle, including production and emission of methane (CH₄), a potent greenhouse gas (GHG); however, estimates of their contribution to global GHG emissions is uncertain. Recent research has identified the potential for quantifying limnetic methane using optical remote sensing coupled with machine learning. In this study, CH₄ fluxes were measured from three drowned river mouth (DRM) estuaries along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan using low-cost, autonomous floating samplers in the littoral zone and discrete samples in the pelagic zone from May to October 2024. Sentinel-3 Ocean and Land Color Instrument, Gridded Meteorological Data, and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer were used to calculate environmental variable proxies, which were used to estimate CH₄ fluxes with machine learning. Model performance (<i>R</i>² = 0.50) indicated ability to capture trends in CH₄ flux and extend predictions to other DRM estuaries. These results provide an accessible framework for reducing the current uncertainty in lakes' CH₄ emissions estimates.</p>","PeriodicalId":18128,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography Letters","volume":"11 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lol2.70099","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146215840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Uptake of Prochlorococcus-derived metabolites by Alteromonas macleodii MIT1002 shows high levels of substrate specificity","authors":"Kathryn H. Halloran,&nbsp;Rogier Braakman,&nbsp;Allison Coe,&nbsp;Gretchen Swarr,&nbsp;Melissa C. Kido Soule,&nbsp;Sallie W. Chisholm,&nbsp;Elizabeth B. Kujawinski","doi":"10.1002/lol2.70102","DOIUrl":"10.1002/lol2.70102","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Seawater contains small biomolecules, or metabolites, that are highly labile components of dissolved organic matter (DOM). Marine microbes interact by exchanging metabolites, thus shaping marine microbial ecology, DOM composition, and global carbon cycling. To better constrain one set of microbe-metabolite interactions, we cultured the marine gammaproteobacterium <i>Alteromonas macleodii</i> MIT1002 on a range of compounds excreted by a sympatric cyanobacterium, <i>Prochlorococcus</i>. <i>Alteromonas macleodii</i> MIT1002 could metabolize the branched-chain amino acids leucine, isoleucine, and valine, as well as 3-methyl-2-oxobutanoic acid (a branched-chain ketoacid intermediate of valine metabolism), but not thymidine, kynurenine, 4-hydroxybenzoic acid, nor the other branched-chain ketoacids. The utilization of branched-chain amino acids indicates that <i>A. macleodii</i> MIT1002 can metabolize each corresponding ketoacid, suggesting that transporter specificity underlies the observed substrate specificity for 3-methyl-2-oxobutanoic acid. These experiments show that even subtle changes in chemical structure can result in different microbial interactions and different fates for dissolved metabolites.</p>","PeriodicalId":18128,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography Letters","volume":"11 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lol2.70102","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146215842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Limno-STOICH: A comprehensive database linking the elemental stoichiometry of organisms with inland aquatic habitats","authors":"Jessica R. Corman,&nbsp;Halvor M. Halvorson,&nbsp;Casey Brucker,&nbsp;Molly S. Costanza-Robinson,&nbsp;J. Harrison Edwards,&nbsp;Eric K. Moody,&nbsp;Chad Petersen,&nbsp;Baker J. Angstman,&nbsp;Qiting Cai,&nbsp;Sarah M. Collins,&nbsp;Elise Ehlers,&nbsp;W. Reilly Farrell,&nbsp;Julia Keon,&nbsp;Amy C. Krist,&nbsp;Alexander L. Lewanski,&nbsp;Shuyi Lin,&nbsp;Amina Mohamed,&nbsp;Natalie Montano,&nbsp;Briante L. Najev,&nbsp;Emma D. Neill,&nbsp;Carly R. Olson,&nbsp;Elizabeth G. Peebles,&nbsp;Kayley Porter,&nbsp;Linnea A. Rock,&nbsp;Ella Roelofs,&nbsp;Sophie Schuele,&nbsp;Andrew D. Suchomel,&nbsp;Steve Thomas,&nbsp;Liza Toll,&nbsp;Benjamin B. Tumolo,&nbsp;Catherine E. Wagner,&nbsp;Binbin Wang,&nbsp;Eli N. Wess,&nbsp;Gültekin Yilmaz,&nbsp;Carla L. Atkinson,&nbsp;Brent J. Bellinger,&nbsp;John S. Brazner,&nbsp;Marco J. Cabrerizo,&nbsp;Andrew Camilleri,&nbsp;Fabien Cremona,&nbsp;Jean-Pierre Descy,&nbsp;Anton Drobotov,&nbsp;Bruce D. Dudley,&nbsp;Claudia Feijoó,&nbsp;Kelley A. Fritz,&nbsp;Darren P. Giling,&nbsp;Justin R. Hanisch,&nbsp;Katie Hossler,&nbsp;Tjaša Kanduč,&nbsp;Zin'ichi Karube,&nbsp;Giri R. Kattel,&nbsp;Lesley B. Knoll,&nbsp;Tyler J. Kohler,&nbsp;John S. Kominoski,&nbsp;Erik Kristensen,&nbsp;Danny C. P. Lau,&nbsp;Matthew J. Lundquist,&nbsp;Stephen E. MacAvoy,&nbsp;Nicolas Martyniuk,&nbsp;Rosana Mazzoni,&nbsp;Rahmat Naddafi,&nbsp;Vinicius Neres-Lima,&nbsp;Rebecca North,&nbsp;Priscila Oliveira-Cunha,&nbsp;Kelly Ortega-Cisneros,&nbsp;Ada Pastor,&nbsp;Cynthia Paszkowski,&nbsp;Richard Piola,&nbsp;Tamar Rachamim,&nbsp;Takashi Sakamaki,&nbsp;Orlando Sarnelle,&nbsp;Ursula M. Scharler,&nbsp;Garry Scrimgeour,&nbsp;Jonathan B. Shurin,&nbsp;Christopher F. Steiner,&nbsp;Kevin M. Theissen,&nbsp;Ross Thompson,&nbsp;Alexander Tolomeev,&nbsp;Inés G. Viana,&nbsp;Verónica D. Villanueva,&nbsp;Anne Watson,&nbsp;Egor Zadereev,&nbsp;Eugenia Zandonà","doi":"10.1002/lol2.70105","DOIUrl":"10.1002/lol2.70105","url":null,"abstract":"<p>All organisms contain carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus in widely ranging amounts and proportions. Integrating existing datasets enables quantification of this variation at global scales. Such efforts could leverage ecological stoichiometry theory, the study of elemental supply and imbalances in ecological interactions, to connect ecological drivers and taxonomic constraints to ecosystem structure and function. Towards this goal, we developed the Limnology Stoichiometric Traits of Organisms In their Chemical Habitats (Limno-STOICH) database. The Limno-STOICH database includes 51,576 observations of organismal elemental stoichiometry from &gt;3100 rivers, lakes, wetlands, and other aquatic ecosystem sites on seven continents, derived from 190+ sources. It also includes extensive spatial and temporal metadata to link elemental stoichiometry with ecosystem type, trophic status, etc., and information on organismal data (body size, taxonomic classifications, stable isotope composition) and water physicochemical parameters. The Limno-STOICH database sets the stage for significant applications across food web ecology, evolutionary ecology, biogeochemistry, and other disciplines.</p>","PeriodicalId":18128,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography Letters","volume":"11 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lol2.70105","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146153544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Degassing fluxes in a temperate hydropower reservoir predictable by deep-water dissolved oxygen but highly sensitive to discharge variability","authors":"Rachel M. Pilla,&nbsp;Natalie A. Griffiths,&nbsp;Carly Hansen,&nbsp;R. Trent Jett,&nbsp;Michael W. Jones,&nbsp;Nikki J. Jones,&nbsp;Trystan A. Bordeau","doi":"10.1002/lol2.70108","DOIUrl":"10.1002/lol2.70108","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Hydropower reservoirs contribute to methane (CH₄) and carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions, like all aquatic ecosystems. Unique to hydropower reservoirs are degassing emissions that occur when deep-water intakes move water with high CH₄ and CO₂ concentrations through turbines, leading to the release of these gases. However, few studies from hydropower reservoirs have measured seasonal variability and drivers of degassing fluxes, especially in temperate systems. We measured monthly degassing emissions in temperate Douglas Reservoir (Tennessee, USA) from 2023 to 2024. We found that degassing fluxes were highest in the summertime, and deep-water CH₄ and CO₂ concentrations were predictable by deep-water dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations. Degassing emissions accounted for 37–62% of annually estimated CH₄ emissions, outweighing ebullitive emissions during summer months. We highlight the value of using DO data to estimate deep-water CH₄ and CO₂ concentrations and degassing fluxes at higher temporal resolution to improve annualization and extrapolation of reservoir degassing emissions at broader scales.</p>","PeriodicalId":18128,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography Letters","volume":"11 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lol2.70108","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146146098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Widespread decline in the abundance of sea cucumber assemblages in atolls of the protected Rowley Shoals, northwestern Australia","authors":"Inês Leal,&nbsp;Claire L. Ross,&nbsp;Simone Strydom,&nbsp;Richard D. Evans,&nbsp;Thomas H. Holmes,&nbsp;Graham J. Edgar,&nbsp;John K. Keesing","doi":"10.1002/lol2.70100","DOIUrl":"10.1002/lol2.70100","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Rowley Shoals, off northwestern Australia, are renowned as a biodiversity hotspot. This remote system comprises three atolls, Clerke, Imperieuse and Mermaid, which in recent years have been increasingly targeted by illegal fishing, a pressure rising across the Indo-Pacific. The objective of this study was to quantify recent changes in sea cucumber assemblages across the Rowley Shoals. We surveyed nine sea cucumber species at monitoring sites in 2018 and 2023 to assess changes in their abundance. Total assemblage densities declined significantly across all atolls and habitats. Documented seizures of illegally harvested holothurians by the Australian Fisheries Management Authority over this period suggest that illegal fishing pressure likely contributed to the observed declines. Notably, IUCN-listed species <i>Holothuria whitmaei</i> and <i>Actinopyga miliaris</i> declined severely, raising concerns about their recovery potential. These findings provide the first quantitative evidence of widespread declines within this protected reef system and bring renewed attention to its conservation.</p>","PeriodicalId":18128,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography Letters","volume":"11 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lol2.70100","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146122043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Quantifying interactive photochemical and microbial removal of terrestrial dissolved organic carbon: From experiments to modeling","authors":"Patrick Martin,&nbsp;Oon Yee Woo,&nbsp;Yuan Chen,&nbsp;Clement Y. Tan,&nbsp;Crystal T. Yang,&nbsp;Yongli Zhou,&nbsp;Bernhard Mayer","doi":"10.1002/lol2.70085","DOIUrl":"10.1002/lol2.70085","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The biogeochemical fate of terrestrial dissolved organic carbon (tDOC) in aquatic environments is a poorly understood part of the carbon cycle. In nature, tDOC undergoes photochemical and microbial degradation simultaneously. However, photochemical and microbial degradation are generally quantified separately, and nonlinear interactions between these processes remain poorly constrained. We describe a novel experimental method to quantify simultaneous photochemical–microbial degradation, and show that interactive photochemical–microbial degradation can account for around half of tDOC and of colored dissolved organic matter degradation. The degradation rates depend asymptotically on the absorbed light dose rate. Our method yields a simple equation that relates the interactive tDOC degradation rate to the absorbed light dose rate, which can be adapted to represent tDOC degradation in biogeochemical ocean models. Our method offers a straightforward and transferable approach to quantify interactive tDOC degradation rates in different ecosystems and to better represent tDOC degradation in biogeochemical ocean models.</p>","PeriodicalId":18128,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography Letters","volume":"11 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lol2.70085","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146122046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cyclone-induced mixing and stratification shape autumnal hypoxia in a temperate estuary","authors":"Chunqi Shen,&nbsp;Jeremy M. Testa","doi":"10.1002/lol2.70107","DOIUrl":"10.1002/lol2.70107","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Autumnal hypoxia in temperate estuaries is often overlooked due to its smaller extent, weaker intensity, and sparse observations compared to summer. However, climate variability may alter its seasonality. Using 40 yr (1984–2023) of hypoxic volume data from the Chesapeake Bay, combined with numerical simulations, we examined interannual drivers of autumnal hypoxia. September wind speeds were negatively correlated with hypoxic volume (<i>r</i> = −0.49, <i>p</i> &lt; 0.01), reflecting wind-driven destratification. Conversely, September river discharge showed a strong positive correlation with October hypoxia (<i>r</i> = 0.81, <i>p</i> &lt; 0.01), indicating that lagged freshwater inputs from late-season cyclones enhance stratification and re-establish hypoxia. Model simulations of a representative tropical cyclone confirmed this dual effect that storm winds temporarily alleviated hypoxia, but subsequent river inflows prolonged it into October. Model results highlight that physical processes largely regulate autumnal hypoxia dynamics, and suggest that more frequent intense cyclones under climate change may increase its persistence.</p>","PeriodicalId":18128,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography Letters","volume":"11 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lol2.70107","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146122469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Field measurements and model predictions of turbulent kinetic energy in canopies of sparse vegetation under tidal flows","authors":"Vinay Nelli,&nbsp;Julia C. Mullarney,&nbsp;Rémi Chassagne,&nbsp;William Nardin,&nbsp;Rafael O. Tinoco","doi":"10.1002/lol2.70096","DOIUrl":"10.1002/lol2.70096","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The presence of vegetation in aquatic environments alters hydrodynamics and sediment resuspension. A recent paradigm has suggested that turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) serves as a better predictor of sediment transport in aquatic canopies than bed shear stress. This observation has led to the development of formulations to predict TKE for vegetated flows in the laboratory. However, model validation from natural heterogeneous field environments is lacking. Here, we explore the application of laboratory-based formulas in a real environment, characterized by multiple vegetation length scales. We measured turbulence within a sparse canopy of mangrove pneumatophores and saplings during an experimental period with negligible wind-wave activity. The existing formulations for TKE performed well in the field, but only when using the measured values for horizontal eddy length scales. These length scales accounted for the generation of additional turbulence from the surrounding sapling canopy, leading to notably larger TKE values than in similar laboratory experiments.</p>","PeriodicalId":18128,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography Letters","volume":"11 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lol2.70096","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146122084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}