Recreational beneficiaries and their landscape dependencies across national estuary program sites: Tillamook Bay (OR) and Tampa Bay (FL), USA.

This study aims to characterize the value associated with nature-based recreational opportunities and identify estuarine attributes most valued by users. With the National Ecosystem Service Classification System as a framework, we assessed the relationship between recreational beneficiary subclasses and ecological end-products available to beneficiaries in Tillamook Bay, OR, and Tampa Bay, FL estuaries. We used the InVEST recreation model to assess the spatial distribution and intensity of recreation in both estuaries, then inform site selection in subsequent analyses.

Assessing the Relative Importance of Estuarine Nursery Habitats - a Dungeness Crab () Case Study.

Estuaries serve as important nurseries for many recreationally and commercially harvested fisheries species. Recent conceptual approaches (i.e.

Estimating the Distribution of Harvested Estuarine Bivalves with Natural-History-Based Habitat Suitability Models.

Habitat suitability models are useful to estimate the potential distribution of a species of interest, particularly in the case of infaunal bivalves. Sampling for these bivalves is time- and cost-intensive, which is increasingly difficult for organizations or agencies that are limited by personnel and funds. Consequently, we developed a framework to identify suitable bivalve habitat in estuaries (FISBHE) - a habitat suitability index (HSI) modeling framework for NE Pacific estuaries that was parameterized with published natural-hi story information and existing habitat datasets, without requiring extensive field sampling of bivalves.

Effect of Green Macroalgal Blooms on the Behavior, Growth, and Survival of Cockles () in Pacific NW Estuaries.

Nutrient over-enrichment can produce adverse ecological effects within coastal ecosystems and negatively impact the production of ecosystem goods and services. In small estuaries of the U.S.