Water quality and ecosystem health report on east coastal bays and watersheds regarding nitrogen and phosphorous pollution. This small primer article on the health of Maryland’s Coastal areas, derived from chapter 4 (of 9) of the Maryland’s Coastal Bay – Ecosystem Health Assessment (2004), which is at http://www.dnr.state.md.us/coastalbays/sob_2004.html, deals with the effects of excess total nitrogen and phosphorous which is extreme in the small tributaries, but acceptable on the very large bays and the costal islands.
| Date Of Record Release | 2010-11-23 15:32:50 |
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| Description | Water quality and ecosystem health report on east coastal bays and watersheds regarding nitrogen and phosphorous pollution. This small primer article on the health of Maryland’s Coastal areas, derived from chapter 4 (of 9) of the Maryland’s Coastal Bay – Ecosystem Health Assessment (2004), which is at http://www.dnr.state.md.us/coastalbays/sob_2004.html, deals with the effects of excess total nitrogen and phosphorous which is extreme in the small tributaries, but acceptable on the very large bays and the costal islands. |
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| Source | Maryland Departmart of Natural Resources |
| Keyword | Eutrophication, U.S. east coast, Nutrient, Nitrogen, Phosphorous, Water quality, Ecosystem health, Status map, Threshold, Sea grasses, Squatic Vegetation, Dissolved oxygen, Tributary systems, Load, Concentration, Chlorophyll |
| Selector | Selection Committee |
| Date Of Record Creation | 2010-11-23 15:19:40 |
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| Date Last Modified | 2010-11-23 15:34:14 |
| Language | English |
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