An ecological assessment of land use impacts in small watersheds of the Chesapeake Bay

Andrew Leight; John Jacobs; Lonnie Gonsalves; Gretchen Messick; Shawn McLaughlin; Jay Lewis; Juliana Brush; Eric Daniels; Matthew Rhodes; Lewis Collier; Robert Wood

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An ecological assessment of land use impacts in small watersheds of the Chesapeake Bay

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Andrew Leight, John Jacobs, Lonnie Gonsalves, Gretchen Messick, Shawn McLaughlin, Jay Lewis, Juliana Brush, Eric Daniels, Matthew Rhodes, Lewis Collier, Robert Wood

Year:

2016

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Southern Research Station

Source:

In: Stringer, Christina E.; Krauss, Ken W.; Latimer, James S., eds. 2016. Headwaters to estuaries: advances in watershed science and management -Proceedings of the Fifth Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds. March 2-5, 2015, North Charleston, South Carolina. e-General Technical Report SRS-211. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 302 p.

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Abstract

The Chesapeake Bay, the nation’s largest estuary, remains in relatively poor condition despite intensive public and scientific attention. In order to better understand the stressors and impacts occurring in the Bay as a result of land management decisions we conducted an assessment of both habitat condition and organismal response in three small watersheds of the upper Bay.

Parent Publication

Headwaters to estuaries: advances in watershed science and management - Proceedings of the Fifth Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds

Citation

Leight, Andrew; Jacobs, John; Gonsalves, Lonnie; Messick, Gretchen; McLaughlin, Shawn; Lewis, Jay; Brush, Juliana; Daniels, Eric; Rhodes, Matthew; Collier, Lewis; Wood, Robert. 2016. An ecological assessment of land use impacts in small watersheds of the Chesapeake Bay. In: Stringer, Christina E.; Krauss, Ken W.; Latimer, James S., eds. 2016. Headwaters to estuaries: advances in watershed science and management -Proceedings of the Fifth Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds. March 2-5, 2015, North Charleston, South Carolina. e-General Technical Report SRS-211. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 1 p.