Using ecological risk assessment to identify the major anthropogenic stressor in the Waquoit Bay Watershed, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Environmental Management

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 730-740

  Serveiss, Victor B ^a   Bowen, Jennifer L ^b   Dow, David ^c   Valiela, Ivan ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY MARINE PROGRAM   (United States)

^c NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental decision making; Eutrophication; Multiple stressors; Watershed approach; Watershed ecological risk assessment; Watershed management

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ESTUARIES; FISHERIES; OCEAN HABITATS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXIC MATERIALS; WATER POLLUTION; WATERSHEDS;

BIOTIC RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; STRESSORS; WATERSHED ASSESSMENT;

ECOLOGY;

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ESTUARINE POLLUTION; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; CHLORINATION; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ESTUARY; FISHERY; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HABITAT STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; STREAM (RIVER); STRESS; TROUT; UNITED STATES; WATERSHED;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ESTUARIES; FISHES; OCEANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER;

MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WAQUOIT BAY;

AVES; CHARADRIUS MELODUS; GADUS MORHUA; PECTINIDAE; PISCES; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 3543107915     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-004-0085-y     Document Type: Article

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