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Recommendations for Assessing Adverse Benthic Effects in Puget Sound

 
Publication number Date Published
93-09-001May 1993
VIEW NOW Recommendations for Assessing Adverse Benthic Effects in Puget Sound (Number of pages: 148) (Publication Size: 9MB)
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Author(s) PTI Environmental Services
Description Regulatory assessments of adverse environmental impacts are frequently based on the monitoring of benthic invertebrates. These sediment-dwelling organisms, being sedentary, respond to both short-term acute and long-term chronic anthropogenic stresses at a single geographic point and are useful indicators of environmental conditions.
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Keywords sediment, Puget Sound, benthic
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