This has caused the flow of freshwater into Florida Bay to dwindle, making the water in the bay, overall, more saline.
Gibson, R. N., Barnes, M. & Atkinson, R. J. A. Impact of changes in flow of freshwater on estuarine and open coastal habitats and the associated organisms.
Normally, by regulating the flow of freshwater with upstream dams and diversions, saltwater from San Francisco Bay can be prevented from intruding too far into the delta.
They are also heavily engineered upstream: a dam built upstream in neighboring India can critically stanch the flow of freshwater down here, increasingly the chances of salinity and siltation.
If, however, nitrogen is the problem, increasing the flow of freshwater could make matters much worse.If this second hypothesis proves correct, the cure is to remove nitrogen from farmland or sewage discharges, or perhaps both.
Right now people protecting the rainforest are paid a pittance — compared with those who strip it — even though we now know that the rainforest provides everything from keeping CO2 out of the atmosphere to maintaining the flow of freshwater into rivers.
Groundwater flow of freshwater from upland forests into salt marshes is influenced by hydrologic forces that operate over a wide range of temporal scales, including storm events, tidal fluctuations, seasonal variations in rainfall and evapotranspiration (ET).
They found a significant correlation between the flow of freshwater from Greenland's melting glaciers and the bloom, which develops about a week after the arrival of glacial meltwater in early July, and persists until the meltwater slows in August or September.
During the rainy season, the increased flow of freshwater results in the appearance of freshwater species.
Though the seawater still dissolved the salt layers, it did so much more slowly than the flow of freshwater.
