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Main Title Relationship Between Land-Based Nitrogen Loading and Eelgrass Extent for Embayments in Southern New England: Initial Model Construction.
Author Charpentier, M. ;
CORP Author National Health and Environmental Effects Research Lab., Narragansett, RI. Atlantic Ecology Div. ;Computer Sciences Corp., Narragansett, RI.
Publisher Mar 2007
Year Published 2007
Report Number EPA/600/R-07/021;
Stock Number PB2007-107189
Additional Subjects Land-based nitrogen loading ; Eelgrass habitat ; Estuarine uses ; Southern New England ; Loading limits ; Embayments ; Model construction ;
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NTIS  PB2007-107189 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
This report outlines research results of the US EPA Atlantic Ecology Division in fulfilling the National Health and Environmental Effects Laboratorys Aquatic Stressors Nutrient Programs charge to develop nutrient load-ecological response models useful in setting loading limits protective of estuarine designated uses. The results reveal that eelgrass extent is signifi cantly related (r(sup 2) = 0.82, p<0.0001) to land-based nitrogen loading when estuarine volume and flushing time are considered. Once this preliminary model is revised and validated, it can be used by local, state and tribal resource managers as part of the weight of evidence required to set nitrogen loading thresholds protective of eelgrass habitat for the class of estuaries defined as southern New England shallow embayments.