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STATISTICAL SUMMARY: EMAP-ESTUARIES LOUISIANIAN PROVINCE - 1993
Citation:
Macauley, J M., J K. Summers, V D. Engle, P. T. Heitmuller, AND A. M. Adams. STATISTICAL SUMMARY: EMAP-ESTUARIES LOUISIANIAN PROVINCE - 1993. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/620/R-96/003, 1995.
Impact/Purpose:
This report represents data from a single year of field operations of the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP). Because the probability-basedscientific design used by the EMAP necessitates multiple years of sampling, there may be significant levels of uncertainty associated with some of these data.
Description:
This statistical summmary of the ecological condition of the estuarine resources is based on the results of the 1993 Louisianian Province Demonstration Project. The population of estuarine resources with the Louisianian Province consists of all estuarine areas located along the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico between, and including, the Rio Grande, Texas, and Anclote Anchorage, Florida. The Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) is a national program initiated by EPA and integrating the efforts of several federal agencies to evaluate the status and trends of the ecological resources of the United States. EMAP-Estuaries (EMAP-E) is a part of EMAP organized to evaluate the status and trends of the estuarine resources of the United States. The Louisianian Province Demonstration Project was conducted during the summer of 1993 (July-August) using a probability-based sampling design to evaluate the condition of the estuarine resources in this geographic region. One hundred and fifty-four sites between Anclote Anchorage, Florida, and the Rio Grande, Texas, were sampled during the eight-week sampling period. A series of indicators that are representative of the overall condition of estuarine resources were measured at each site. These indicators were designed to address three major attributes of concern: 1) estuarine biotic integrity, 2) societal values related to public use of esturine resources, and 3) pollutant exposure, or the environmental conditions under which biota live.