Conservation organizations have most often focused on land‐use change, climate change, and invasive species as prime threats to biodiversity conservation. Although air pollution is …
A detailed account of the biology and ecology of vascular wetland plants and their applications in wetland plant science, Wetland Plants: Biology and Ecology presents a …
We review current understanding of the potential impact of climate change on the Chesapeake Bay. Scenarios for CO2 emissions indicate that by the end of the 21st century …
This paper describes an integrated methodology for the Assessment of Estuarine Trophic Status (ASSETS), which may be applied comparatively to rank the eutrophication status of …
Change analysis of eelgrass distribution in Waquoit Bay demonstrated a rapid decline of eelgrass habitat between 1987 and 1992. Aerial photography and ground-truth …
CJ Deutsch, JP Reid, RK Bonde, DE Easton… - Wildlife …, 2003 - JSTOR
The West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus) is endangered by human activities throughout its range, including the US Atlantic coast where habitat degradation from coastal …
MA Hemminga - Journal of Sea Research, 1998 - Elsevier
Large-scale declines in seagrass vegetation have been frequently observed in recent decades. Many of these declines can be traced to the reduction of light levels in the water …
KA Moore, RL Wetzel, RJ Orth - Journal of Experimental Marine Biology …, 1997 - Elsevier
The light environment of one Chesapeake Bay tributary where seagrasses have decreased in abundance was described using both continuous and discrete measures of irradiance …
W Michael Kemp, R Batleson, P Bergstrom, V Carter… - Estuaries, 2004 - Springer
We developed an algorithm for calculating habitat suitability for seagrasses and related submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) at coastal sites where monitoring data are available for …