Benthic Invertebrate Community Monitoring and Indicator Development for Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor Estuary : Year 3, Final Report

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dc.contributor.authorTaghon, Gary L.
dc.contributor.authorGrassle, Judith P.
dc.contributor.authorFuller, Charlotte M.
dc.contributor.authorPetrecca, Rosemarie F.
dc.contributor.authorRamey, Patricia
dc.contributor.authorBelton, Thomas
dc.contributor.authorFerko, Marc
dc.contributor.authorSchuster, Bob
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-03T14:25:46Z
dc.date.available2022-11-03T14:25:46Z
dc.date.issued2015-09-08
dc.description.abstractThe Barnegat Bay ecosystem is potentially under stress from human impacts, which appear to have increased over the past several decades. Benthic macroinvertebrates are commonly included in studies to monitor the effects of human and natural stresses on marine and estuarine ecosystems. There are several reasons for this. Macroinvertebrates (here defined as animals retained on a 0.5-mm-mesh sieve) are abundant in most coastal and estuarine sediments, typically on the order of 103 to 104 individuals per meter squared. Benthic communities are typically composed of many taxa from different phyla, and quantitative measures of community diversity (e.g., Rosenberg et al. 2004) and the relative abundance of animals with different feeding behaviors (e.g., Pelletier et al. 2010, Weisberg et al. 1997), can be used to evaluate ecosystem health. Because most benthic invertebrates are sedentary as adults, they function as integrators, over periods of months to years, of the properties of their environment.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipProject SR14-004. Cover page has date of February, 2016.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10929/106868
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherTrenton, N.J. : New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Science, Research and Environmental Healthen_US
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dc.subjectNew Jerseyen_US
dc.subjectInvertebrates - New Jersey - Barnegat Bayen_US
dc.subjectBenthos - New Jersey - Barnegat Bayen_US
dc.subjectBenthic ecology - New Jersey - Barnegat Bayen_US
dc.titleBenthic Invertebrate Community Monitoring and Indicator Development for Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor Estuary : Year 3, Final Reporten_US
dc.title.alternativeBarnegat Bay Year 3 : Benthic Invertebrate Community Monitoring and Indicator Development for the Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor Estuaryen_US
dc.typeTechnical Reporten_US

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