SOP 12 – Data Analysis and Annual Reporting; A Protocol for Monitoring Estuarine Nutrient Enrichment in Coastal Parks of the National Park Service Northeast Region
Kopp BS and Neckles HA. 2009. SOP 12 – Data Analysis and Annual Reporting; A Protocol for Monitoring Estuarine Nutrient Enrichment in Coastal Parks of the National Park Service Northeast Region. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
This is an SOP of "A Protocol for Monitoring Estuarine Nutrient Enrichment in Coastal Parks of the National Park Service Northeast Region" (https://irma.nps.gov/App/Reference/Profile/2218712). The goals of estuarine monitoring within Northeast Region (NER) coastal parks are to: 1) determine whether nutrient loads to park estuaries are increasing over time, and 2) assess how estuarine natural resources are affected by changing nutrient inputs. Two distinct monitoring protocols have been developed to achieve these goals, and the utility and interpretability of each is tightly linked to the other. Goal (1) is principally addressed by a separate protocol that prescribes monitoring of watershed characteristics which are used to model nutrient loading to NER coastal parks. The priority objective of this protocol is to address goal (2) by tracking estuarine response to nutrient enrichment. While this protocol is designed around the most universal indicators of estuarine responses to enrichment (and so to a certain extent provides information on the status of nutrient loading to these estuaries as well), interpretation of trends in results from this monitoring protocol are most useful when interpreted within the context of changing nutrient load to the NER estuaries.accuracy and precision (Stanley and Vener 1985).
- Type
- Standard Operating Procedure
- Authors
- Kopp, Blaine; Neckles, Hilary
- Date of Issue
- 2009-05
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- ASIS , CACO , COLO , FIIS , GATE , GEWA , NCBN , NRSS
- Keywords
- Assateague Island National Seashore, estuarine habitats, Estuary, Fire Island National Seashore, Gateway National Recreation Area, Monitoring, Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network, Nutrient Enrichment, Nutrients, Plant Communities, plant cover, Sea grass, Soil Chemistry, Species Composition, Vegetation, Vegetation cover, Water Chemistry, Water Clarity , Water Quality, Water Quality Monitoring, Wetlands
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Geology and Soils | Soil Quality | Soil Function and Dynamics , Ecological Framework: Water | Water Quality | Water Chemistry , Ecological Framework: Water | Water Quality | Nutrient Dynamics , Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Estuarine Communities , Ecological Framework: Human Use | Non-point Source Human Effects | Non-point Source Human Effects , Ecological Framework: Landscapes | Nutrient Dynamics | Nutrient Dynamics , Ecological Framework: Landscapes | Energy Flow | Primary Production