Flood protection ecosystem services in the coast of Puerto Rico: Associations between extreme weather, flood hazard mitigation and gastrointestinal illness

Crespo, Rebeca de Jesús; Wu, Jiabing; Myer, Mark H.; Yee, Susan H.; Fulford, Richard S.

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.287

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“…Heavy rains and floods have long been implicated in transporting human pathogens (e.g. faecal coliform bacteria) to the marine environment (Pandey et al ., 2014; De Jesus Crespo et al ., 2019). Indeed, we found bacterial taxa that are potentially dangerous to humans – including Campylobacterales, Fusobacteriales, Bacillales, Clostridiales and Enterobacteriales (Bennett and Eley, 1993; Sharma et al ., 2003; Davin‐Regli et al ., 2019) – significantly enriched during and following storms.…”

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“…Extreme storm events, such as tropical cyclones (i.e. tropical storms, hurricanes, and typhoons), can have dramatic consequences on coastal ecosystems, due in part to the effects of terrestrially‐derived pollution (Hennessy et al ., 1997; De Jesus Crespo et al ., 2019). In addition to influencing salinity and turbidity, flood plumes often include elevated concentrations of bacteria (Solo‐Gabriele et al ., 2000), nutrients (i.e.…”

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Extreme storms cause rapid but short‐lived shifts in nearshore subtropical bacterial communities

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Environmental Microbiology

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Summary Climate change scenarios predict tropical cyclones will increase in both frequency and intensity, which will escalate the amount of terrestrial run‐off and mechanical disruption affecting coastal ecosystems. Bacteria are key contributors to ecosystem functioning, but relatively little is known about how they respond to extreme storm events, particularly in nearshore subtropical regions. In this study, we combine field observations and mesocosm experiments to assess bacterial community dynamics and changes in physicochemical properties during early‐ and late‐season tropical cyclones affecting Okinawa, Japan. Storms caused large and fast influxes of freshwater and terrestrial sediment – locally known as red soil pollution – and caused moderate increases of macronutrients, especially SiO2 and PO43−, with up to 25 and 0.5 μM respectively. We detected shifts in relative abundances of marine and terrestrially derived bacteria, including putative coral and human pathogens, during storm events. Soil input alone did not substantially affect marine bacterial communities in mesocosms, indicating that other components of run‐off or other storm effects likely exert a larger influence on bacterial communities. The storm effects were short‐lived and bacterial communities quickly recovered following both storm events. The early‐ and late‐season storms caused different physicochemical and bacterial community changes, demonstrating the context‐dependency of extreme storm responses in a subtropical coastal ecosystem.

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Extreme storms cause rapid but short‐lived shifts in nearshore subtropical bacterial communities

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Sato

et al. 2020

Environmental Microbiology

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“…They also found evidence for causality between greenspace and water hazard mitigation, and water hazard mitigation and gastrointestinal disease. One pathway involves ES associated with Karst soils that promote water infiltration, reducing flooding and the spread of pathogens that cause gastrointestinal disease [21].…”

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A Community EcoHealth Index from EnviroAtlas Ecosystem Services Metrics

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Jackson

Neale

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Human health is inextricably tied to ecosystem services (ES), including those associated with greenspace in urban communities. EnviroAtlas provides close to 100 maps of ES metrics based on high-resolution land cover data in featured communities across the contiguous United States. Using selected EnviroAtlas ES metrics, a Community EcoHealth Index (CEHI) was created based on an ecohealth framework including health promotion and hazard buffering domains. Aggregation of eight selected ES metrics in these domains entailed a weighted distance measure, where objective, data-driven weights were generated. CEHI was calculated by Census Block Group (CBG) at both the local level and the national level for 22 EnviroAtlas communities. Results were mapped to show one- to five-star CBGs or neighborhoods within and across all 22 featured communities. At the national level, CEHI favors communities in forested ecoregions. The local version of CEHI is more appropriate to inform social, economic, and environmental decision-making for improving community ES associated with human health.

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“…Extreme storm events, such as tropical cyclones (i.e. tropical storms, hurricanes, and typhoons), can have dramatic consequences on coastal ecosystems, due in part to the effects of 40 terrestrially derived pollution (Hennessy, Gregory and Mitchell 1997;De Jesus Crespo et al 2019). In addition to influencing salinity and turbidity, flood plumes often include elevated concentrations of bacteria (Solo-Gabriele et al 2000), nutrients (i.e.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Heavy rains and floods have long been implicated in transporting human pathogens (e.g. fecal 25 coliform bacteria) to the marine environment (Pandey et al 2014;De Jesus Crespo et al 2019). While we found bacterial taxa that are potentially dangerous to humans-including Campylobacter, Fusobacteria, and Enterobacter (Bennett and Eley 1993;Sharma, Sachdeva and Virdi 2003; Davin-Regli, Lavigne and Pagès 2019)-significantly enriched during and following storms, these bacteria were not present in our soil samples.…”

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Extreme storms cause rapid, context-dependent shifts in nearshore subtropical bacterial communities

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et al. 2019

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Climate change scenarios predict tropical cyclones will increase in both frequency and intensity, 15which will escalate the amount of terrestrial runoff entering coastal ecosystems. Prokaryotes are known to respond quickly to environmental change, making them potentially valuable earlywarning bioindicators, but relatively little is known about their short-term responses during extreme storms in nearshore subtropical regions. In this study, we combine field observations and mesocosm experiments to assess prokaryotic community dynamics and changes in 20 physicochemical properties during early-and late-season tropical cyclones affecting Okinawa, Japan. Storms caused large and fast influxes of freshwater and terrestrial sediment-locally known as red soil pollution-and caused moderate increases of macronutrients-especially SiO2 and PO4. Rather than shifts in marine bacteria, we primarily detected influxes of common soil-derived bacteria, and putative coral and human pathogens that may derive from other 25 sources; mesocosm experiments confirmed that soil input did not differentially affect marine bacteria. The storm effects on bacterial communities were short-lived and baseline assemblages were quickly recovered following disturbances. Early-and late-season storms caused different physicochemical and bacterial community changes. Our results demonstrate rapid and context-dependent shifts in prokaryotic communities due to extreme storm events in a 30 subtropical coastal ecosystem.

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Flood protection ecosystem services in the coast of Puerto Rico: Associations between extreme weather, flood hazard mitigation and gastrointestinal illness

Cited by 17 publications

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Extreme storms cause rapid but short‐lived shifts in nearshore subtropical bacterial communities

Extreme storms cause rapid but short‐lived shifts in nearshore subtropical bacterial communities

A Community EcoHealth Index from EnviroAtlas Ecosystem Services Metrics

Extreme storms cause rapid, context-dependent shifts in nearshore subtropical bacterial communities

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