Science-based Restoration Monitoring of Coastal Habitats: Tools for monitoring coastal habitats
Science-based Restoration Monitoring of Coastal Habitats: Tools for monitoring coastal habitats

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Published: 2003

Total Pages: 658

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This guidance manual ... provides technical assistance, outlines necessary steps, and provides useful tools for the development and implementation of sound scientific monitoring of coastal restoration efforts ... [and] offers a means to detect early warnings that the restoration is on track or not, to gauge how well a restoration site is functioning, to coordinate projects and efforts for consistent and successful restoration, and to evaluate the ecological health of specific coastal habitats both before and after project completion.

Field Guide to the Submerged Aquatic Vegetation of Chesapeake Bay
Field Guide to the Submerged Aquatic Vegetation of Chesapeake Bay

Author: Linda M. Hurley

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Published: 1990

Total Pages: 72

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Field guide covering 14 species of "underwater vascular plants known as submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) or, as they are referred to locally, "bay grasses"." It also describes 2 species of floating aquatic plants and 2 species of algae that may be misidentified as SAV species. The guide "is intended as a tool for natural resource managers and biologists involved with SAV protection and research," and for students, amateur naturalists, and those interested in Chesapeake Bay ecology.