Expanded Executive Summary: Water Quality and Habitat Evaluation of Bass Harbor Marsh, Acadia National Park, Maine
Doering PH, Roman CT, Beatty LL, Keller AA, Oviatt CA. 1995. Expanded Executive Summary: Water Quality and Habitat Evaluation of Bass Harbor Marsh, Acadia National Park, Maine
'The intent of this expanded Executive Summary is to provide the reader with a brief overview of the findings of the study cited below (Doering et al. 1995). Details concerning methodologies, data, interpretations, and relationships of the findings to the professional literature are found in the complete final report.' The objectives of this study were severalfold: 1) Quantify, on a seasonal basis, the major sources of nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) to the marsh-estuary and evaluate the distribution of nutrients throughout the system.2) Evaluate the fate of nutrients within the marsh, especially with regard to relationships between macroalgae biomass and nutrient concentrations. 3) Develop simple box models of the marsh-estuary to predict the distribution of nutrients given a reduction or increase in nutrient inputs from anthropogenic sources.4) Characterize the habitat ecology of the marsh by evaluating the seasonal biomass of macroalgae and submerged aquatic vegetation along the estuarine gradient and by sampling for fish and macrobenthic species composition and relative abundance. /STUDY LOCATIONS:/ /MOUNT DESERT ISLAND/Bass Harbor Marsh/Bass Harbor/Adams Brook/Buttermilk Brook/Marshall Brook/China Brook/Lurvey Brook/China Hill/Heath Brook/
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Doering, Peter; Roman, Charles; Beatty, Lynn; Keller, Aimee; Oviatt, Candace
- Date of Issue
- 1995-08-01
- Units
- ACAD
- Keywords
- Adams Brook, Algae, Ammonia (NH3), Bass Harbor, Bass Harbor Marsh, Biomass, Buttermilk Brook, Checklist, China Brook, China Hill, Chlorophyll, Discharge, Dissolved Oxygen (DO), Estuaries, Eutrophication, Fish, Heath Brook, Inventory (Baseline), Invertebrates, Lurvey Brook, Marine, Marine Invertebrates, Marshall Brook, Mount Desert Island, Nitrogen (N), NOx, Nutrients, pH, Phosphate (PO4), Phosphorus (P), Plankton, Plants, Salinity, Silica (SiO2), Silicates, Water Quality, water temperature