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Research: Nearshore Habitats and Coastal Stressors

Potential Environmental Indicators of the Health of the Bay examined by the ASC

Indicator

Watershed

Local Land Use

Stream nutrients

X

 

Stream macroinvertebrates

X

X

Estuarine water quality

X

 

Benthic IBI

X

X

Fish IBI

X

X

Phagmites abundance

X

X

Blue crab abundance

X

X

PCB in white perch

X

 

Waterbird IBI

X

X

Wetland Bird IBI

 

X

SAV abundance

X

 

 

biota response

Examples of linkages between patterns of land use and environmental indicators in estuarine habitat