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Main Title Eelgrass Distribution in the Great Bay Estuary for 2006. A Final Report to the New Hampshire Estuaries Project.
Author F. Short
CORP Author New Hampshire Univ., Durham. Jackson Estuarine Lab.
Year Published 2008
Stock Number PB2011-108862
Additional Subjects Eelgrass distribution ; Great Bay Estuary ; Habitat ; Waterfowl ; Junvenile fish ; Estuarine food ; Eelgrass(Zoster marina) ; Great Bay Estuary(GBE)
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NTIS  PB2011-108862 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation 7p
Abstract
Eelgrass in Great Bay itself decreased substantially (43%) between 2005 and 2006, due to losses in both biomass and distribution. Little Bay and the Piscataqua River showed greater change (loss of 40%) between 2005 and 2006 than previously, with very low levels of eelgrass compared to historical distributions and the large beds of ruppia in the Bellamy, Oyster and upper Piscataqua Rivers also diminished. The Portsmouth Harbor Little Harbor area experienced a decrease in eelgrass abundance (14%) between 2005 and 2006. All of the Great Bay Estuary has decreased eelgrass beds compared to historic distributions. In the decade from 1996 to 2006, the Great Bay Estuary has lost almost half its eelgrass.