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| Title | Sediment Quality in Puget Sound: Changes in chemical contaminants and invertebrate communities at 10 sentinel stations, 1989–2015 |
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Sediment Quality in Puget Sound: Changes in chemical contaminants and invertebrate communities at 10 sentinel stations, 1989–2015 (Number of pages: 63) (Publication Size: 2420KB)
Appendix A. Physical Sediment Characteristics Data Summary (82 pages) (1MB) Appendix B. Sediment Chemistry Data Summary (443 pages) (4MB) Appendix C. Benthic Invertebrates Data Summary (187 pages) (5MB)
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| Author(s) | Partridge, V., S. Weakland, M Dutch, D. Burgess, and A. Eagleston | ||||
| Description | This report covers results from 27 years of sampling sediments and benthic invertebrates at 10 long-term stations throughout the greater Puget Sound area every year from 1989 through 2015. These 10 stations represent different habitat types and distinct benthic communities. Overall characteristics of, and trends in, the habitats, sediment chemical contaminants, and benthic invertebrate communities, as well as relationships between them, are presented. Results are placed in context with broader-scale bay and region sediment monitoring results. Although there were significant increasing or decreasing trends in a few parameters at a few stations, the most common pattern was lack of consistently increasing or consistently decreasing temporal trends. Little to no relationship was found between invertebrates and measured sediment contaminants. Sediment chemistry patterns were generally consistent with those observed at wider spatial scales. Changes in benthos seen at wider spatial scales were generally not found at the long-term stations. |
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| Contact | Valerie Partridge at 360-407-7217 or valerie.partridge@ecy.wa.gov | ||||
| Keywords | benthic invertebrates, Sediment quality, sediment monitoring, Puget Sound | ||||
| WEB PAGE | Marine Water and Sediment Monitoring | ||||
| DATA | Environmental Information Management (EIM) #PSAMP_LT |
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| RELATED PUBLICATIONS | Title:
Quality Assurance Monitoring Plan: The Puget Sound Sediment Monitoring Program Sediment Quality in Puget Sound: Changes in chemistry, toxicity, and benthic invertebrates at multiple geographic scales, 1989–2015 Sediment Quality in Puget Sound, 1989-2015 2011 Addendum to Quality Assurance Project Plan: The Puget Sound Assessment and Monitoring Program: Sediment Monitoring Component 2012 Addendum to Quality Assurance Project Plan: The Puget Sound Assessment and Monitoring Program/Urban Waters Initiative: Sediment Monitoring in the San Juan Islands and Port Gardner/Everett Harbor 2010 Addendum to Quality Assurance Project Plan: The Puget Sound Assessment and Monitoring Program Sediment Monitoring Component. Quality Assurance Project Plan: The Puget Sound Assessment and Monitoring Program Sediment Monitoring Component. |
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