Linking water quality to living resources in a mid-Atlantic lagoon system, USA

seagrass conceptual diagramThis paper synthesizes water quality data for the MD Coastal Bays and concludes that decadal improvements have now changed to recent declines in water quality. Strong spatial trends between water quality and seagrass abundance within the MD Coastal Bays are also presented. This effort was a collaboration between Cathy Wazniak and Matt Hall (MD DNR), Brian Sturgis (NPS), Bob Orth (VIMS) and IAN's Bill Dennison, Tim Carruthers and Jane Thomas. The article appears in Ecological Applications 2007: 17(5): Supplement S64-S78