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Submersed Aquatic Vegetation; Dissolved Organic Nitrogen; Coastal Bays; Aureococcus-Anophagefferens; Chesapeake Bay; Nutrient Enrichment; Brown Tide; Eutrophication; Hypoxia; Blooms
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Linking Water Quality To Living Resources In A Mid-Atlantic Lagoon System, Usa, Ce Wazniak, Mr Hall, Tjb Carruthers, B Sturgis, Wc Dennison, Rj Orth
Linking Water Quality To Living Resources In A Mid-Atlantic Lagoon System, Usa, Ce Wazniak, Mr Hall, Tjb Carruthers, B Sturgis, Wc Dennison, Rj Orth
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The mid-Atlantic coastal bays are shallow coastal lagoons, separated from the Atlantic Ocean by barrier sand islands with oceanic exchanges restricted to narrow inlets. The relatively poor flushing of these lagoon systems makes them susceptible to eutrophication resulting from anthropogenic nutrient loadings. An intensive water quality and seagrass monitoring program was initiated to track ecological changes in the Maryland and Virginia coastal bays. The purpose of this study was to analyze existing monitoring data to determine status and trends in eutrophication and to determine any associations between water quality and living resources. Analysis of monitoring program data revealed several trends: …