The effect of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on two ecosystem services in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

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dc.contributor.authorRohal, Melissa
dc.contributor.authorAinsworth, Cameron
dc.contributor.authorLupher, Brach
dc.contributor.authorMontagna, Paul A.
dc.contributor.authorParis , Claire B.
dc.contributor.authorPerlin, Natalie
dc.contributor.authorSuprenand, Paul Mark
dc.contributor.authorYoskowitz, David
dc.creator.orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-5300-8290en_US
dc.creator.orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0003-4199-3312en_US
dc.creator.orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-0637-1334en_US
dc.creator.orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-8266-4238en_US
dc.creator.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2538-013Xen_US
dc.creator.orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-5300-8290
dc.creator.orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0003-4199-3312
dc.creator.orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-0637-1334
dc.creator.orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-8266-4238
dc.creator.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2538-013X
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-20T21:21:10Z
dc.date.available2022-04-20T21:21:10Z
dc.date.issued2020-11
dc.description.abstractThe Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill likely affected ecosystem services in the Gulf of Mexico. To test this hypothesis, we configured a “Ecopath with Ecosim” model and quantified the effects of commercial fisheries and particulate organic carbon (POC) sequestration from 2004 to 2014, encompassing DWH. The yield of five functional groups were used to calculate changes in fishery catch and detritus biomass as a proxy for carbon buried offshore to calculate POC sequestration. The model predicted an estimated loss of $15–16 million per year (−13%) in stone crab fisheries but estimated gains of up to $20 million per year (11%) in the other four groups from 2010 to 2012. Model simulations estimated a loss of $1200 (−0.15%) in the ability of the Northern Gulf of Mexico offshore environment to sequester POC in 2010. The DWH simulation led to an increase in fisheries overall and decrease in POC sequestration ecosystem services in 2010.en_US
dc.identifier.citationRohal, M., Ainsworth, C., Lupher, B., Montagna, P. A., Paris, C. B., Perlin, N., Suprenand, P. M., & Yoskowitz, D. (2020). The effect of the deepwater horizon oil spill on two ecosystem services in the northern gulf of mexico. Environmental Modelling & Software : With Environment Data News, 133, 104793en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104793
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1969.6/90497
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectecopathen_US
dc.subjectgulf of mexicoen_US
dc.subjectecosystem servicesen_US
dc.subjectoilen_US
dc.subjectspillen_US
dc.subjectmodelen_US
dc.subjectdeepwater horizonen_US
dc.titleThe effect of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on two ecosystem services in the Northern Gulf of Mexicoen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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