Abstract
The Bay of Fundy is a turbid, high-energy, macrotidal estuary on Canada's east coast. An extensive ecological study of this area has been conducted over the past 5 years. The concentration of nutrients was measured in numerous compartments of this ecosystem on different scales of time and space. While nutrient concentrations in the water column never approached limiting values, concentrations were a complex function of numerous physical and environmental factors. The effects of high concentrations of suspended sediments and the high energy input from the large tidal range on the dynamics of nutrients in this estuary are discussed in detail in an attempt to evaluate sources and sinks of nutrients in the estuary. Due to lack of information on residual water fluxes, estimations of the magnitude and direction of nutrient fluxes in the estuary are only qualitative.
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