Title | A Conservation Assessment of West Coast (USA) Estuaries |
Publication Type | Report |
Year of Publication | 2011 |
Authors | Gleason, Mary G., Sarah Newkirk, Matthew S. Merrifield, Jeanette Howard, Robin Cox, Megan Webb, Jennifer Koepcke, Brian Stranko, Bethany Taylor, Michael W. Beck, Roger Fuller, Paul Dye, Dick Vander Schaaf, and Jena Carter |
Pagination | 65 p. |
Institution | The Nature Conservancy |
City | Arlington, Va. |
Call Number | OSU Libraries: Digital Open Access |
Keywords | Agriculture, Alsea Bay, estuarine dynamics, habitats, human impacts, hydrology, land ownership, land use, logging, mathematical modeling, Netarts Bay, Salmon River, Siletz Bay, Siuslaw River, Tillamook Bay, Umpqua River, Yaquina River |
Notes | “Funded by: The David and Lucile Packard Foundation” “This assessment outlines an enhanced planning approach for West Coast estuaries that incorporates an evaluation of the regional context for estuarine conservation and recommends an approach to site-scale planning with more focus on ecological processes and functions.” (p.1) “A hierarchical classification system was developed for West Coast estuaries that identified three regions (based on climate, latitude, and oceanography) and four estuary types distinguished by the relative degree of influence of the hydrodynamic forcing mechanisms of waves, tides, and rivers.” (p.2) |
URL | https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/defaults/1r66j546d |