The Yarra River estuary is a salt‐wedge estuary prone to periods of stratification‐induced anoxia and hypoxia (O 2 −1 ) during low‐flow events. Nitrate reduction pathways were examined using the 15 N isotope pairing technique in intact sediment cores, emulating in situ conditions, to evaluate the fate of NO during changing oxygen conditions. Water‐column concentrations of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), O 2 , NH, and NO x (N...

Hypoxia and anoxia in coastal waters have typically been explained by the respiration of sinking organic matter associated with nutrient over‐enrichment and phytoplankton blooms. Here, we assess whether submarine groundwater discharge and seawater recirculation in sediments can explain widespread chemical anomalies, including low dissolved oxygen, in salt wedge estuaries. We rely on high‐resolution radon (a natural groundwater...

Summary Phenotypic variation is a fundamental requirement for evolution by natural selection. While evidence of phenotypic variation in natural populations abounds, its genetic basis is rarely understood. Here we report variation in the ability of plant‐colonizing Pseudomonas to utilize histidine, and its derivative, urocanate, as sole sources of carbon and nitrogen. From a population of 164 phyllosphere‐colonizing Pseudomonas...

We measured denitrification in permeable sediments in a sealed flume tank with environmentally representative fluid flow and solute transport behavior using novel measurements. Numerical flow and reactive transport models representing the flume experiments were implemented to provide mechanistic insight into the coupled hydrodynamic and biogeochemical processes. There was broad agreement between the model results and experimen...

Aim To compare patterns of potential and realized dispersal in ecologically similar and phylogenetically related amphidromous shrimps (Atyidae) in continental and island‐dominated landscapes. Location Eastern Australia and the Caribbean region. Methods Population genetic and phylogeographic analyses of mitochondrial DNA data for Australatya striolata from eastern Australia (a continental landscape) and Atya scabra from the Car...