Benthic infauna and epifauna live in intimate contact with the sediment. While often overlooked, they are an important component of the marine benthos and can be a useful indicator of overall environmental and sediment quality. King County routinely monitors benthic infauna near wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) outfalls in Puget Sound’s Central Basin concurrent with sediment chemistry monitoring. While chemical concentrations can provide information about potential impacts to biological communities, the species assemblage and abundance of infauna within the benthic community can provide an assessment of actual impacts. To make this assessment, it is imperative to evaluate these data against an appropriate reference station. This is necessa...
The assignment of feeding guild classifications and functional roles to estuarine benthic macroinver...
Puget Sound is a large and productive estuarine system at the southern end of the Salish Sea. King C...
The disposal of dredged material from channel deepening projects is a major anthropogenic process in...
The Washington State Department of Ecology has been collecting data on Puget Sound sediment-dwelling...
Since 1989, Ecology’s Marine Sediment Monitoring Program has collected data to assess the condition ...
Long-term monitoring of Puget Sound sediments and sediment-dwelling invertebrates (benthos) has been...
Changes in habitat and benthic invertebrates indicate responses of the ecosystem to stressors. Since...
Benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages have been an integral part of the Chesapeake Bay monitoring pr...
The Capital Regional District (CRD) regularly monitors the effects of the region’s eight municipal w...
Sinclair and Dyes Inlets surround the city of Bremerton, Washington, and contain some of the most co...
This study utilizes benthic foraminiferal assemblages to explore the role of anthropogenic pollution...
Decades of monitoring by the Dept. of Ecology has documented declines in Puget Sound benthic communi...
King County built a new marine outfall in 2008 that discharges treated wastewater effluent to the Pu...
Puget Sound, the southern portion of the Salish Sea, has been intensely studied for its macrofauna, ...
Toxic chemicals enter the Salish Sea from a variety of pathways. Although chemical contaminants in P...
The assignment of feeding guild classifications and functional roles to estuarine benthic macroinver...
Puget Sound is a large and productive estuarine system at the southern end of the Salish Sea. King C...
The disposal of dredged material from channel deepening projects is a major anthropogenic process in...
The Washington State Department of Ecology has been collecting data on Puget Sound sediment-dwelling...
Since 1989, Ecology’s Marine Sediment Monitoring Program has collected data to assess the condition ...
Long-term monitoring of Puget Sound sediments and sediment-dwelling invertebrates (benthos) has been...
Changes in habitat and benthic invertebrates indicate responses of the ecosystem to stressors. Since...
Benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages have been an integral part of the Chesapeake Bay monitoring pr...
The Capital Regional District (CRD) regularly monitors the effects of the region’s eight municipal w...
Sinclair and Dyes Inlets surround the city of Bremerton, Washington, and contain some of the most co...
This study utilizes benthic foraminiferal assemblages to explore the role of anthropogenic pollution...
Decades of monitoring by the Dept. of Ecology has documented declines in Puget Sound benthic communi...
King County built a new marine outfall in 2008 that discharges treated wastewater effluent to the Pu...
Puget Sound, the southern portion of the Salish Sea, has been intensely studied for its macrofauna, ...
Toxic chemicals enter the Salish Sea from a variety of pathways. Although chemical contaminants in P...
The assignment of feeding guild classifications and functional roles to estuarine benthic macroinver...
Puget Sound is a large and productive estuarine system at the southern end of the Salish Sea. King C...
The disposal of dredged material from channel deepening projects is a major anthropogenic process in...