Title | Recommendations for Assessing Adverse Benthic Effects in Puget Sound |
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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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Contact | Peter Adolphson at 360-407-7557 | ||||
Keywords | sediment, Puget Sound, benthic | ||||
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