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Oil carbon entered the coastal planktonic food web during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Graham, W.M.; Condon, R.H.; Carmichael, R.H.; D'Ambra, I.; Patterson, H.M.; Linn, L.J.; Hernandez Jr., F.J. (2011). Oil carbon entered the coastal planktonic food web during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Environ. Res. Lett. 5(4): 1-6. dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/5/4/045301
In: Environmental Research Letters. IOP Publishing: Bristol. ISSN 1748-9326; e-ISSN 1748-9326, more
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Keywords
    Accidents > Oil spills
    Food webs
    ASW, Mexico Gulf [Marine Regions]
    Marine/Coastal
Author keywords
    Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Authors  Top 
  • Graham, W.M.
  • Condon, R.H.
  • Carmichael, R.H.
  • D'Ambra, I.
  • Patterson, H.M.
  • Linn, L.J.
  • Hernandez Jr., F.J.

Abstract
    The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was unprecedented in total loading of petroleum hydrocarbons accidentally released to a marine ecosystem. Controversial application of chemical dispersants presumably accelerated microbial consumption of oil components, especially in warm Gulf of Mexico surface waters. We employed d13C as a tracer of oil-derived carbon to resolve two periods of isotopic carbon depletion in two plankton size classes. Carbon depletion was coincident with the arrival of surface oil slicks in the far northern Gulf, and demonstrated that subsurface oil carbon was incorporated into the plankton food web.

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