Assessing Water Quality with Submersed Aquatic Vegetation: Habitat Requirements as Barometers of Chesapeake Bay Health

Worldwide, estuaries are experiencing water quality problems as a result of human population growth in coastal areas. Chesapeake Bay, one of the world's largest estuaries, has experienced deterioration of water quality from nutrient enrichment, sediment inputs, and high levels of contaminants, resulting in anoxic or hypoxic conditions and declines in living resources (Horton and Eichbaum 1991).

Publisher - University of California Press

Subjects - Water Quality

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Citation: Dennison WC, Orth RJ, Moore KA, Stevenson JC, Carter V, Kollar S, Bergstrom PW, Batiuk RA. 1993. Assessing Water Quality with Submersed Aquatic Vegetation: Habitat Requirements as Barometers of Chesapeake Bay Health. BioScience; 43(2):86-94