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Table 1. ACE INC Environmental
Indicators for Estuarine Habitat Components
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Planktonic Component
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Wetland Component
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Seagrass Component
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Temperature
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Landscape-scale pattern (geometry)
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Seagrass primary production
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Photosynt. active radiation
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Sediment elevation/relation to MSL
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FV/FM ratio (photosynthetic efficiency)
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Dissolved oxygen
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Sediment organic matter
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Plant morphology
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Inorganic nutrients (nitrate, ammonium, phosphate, silicate)
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Sediment N/P content
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Physico-chemical indicators of macrophyte stress
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Organic nutrients (DOC & DON, particulate C, H,
N)
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Above ground net primary production |
Algal distribution (chlorophyll a and species composition)
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Dissolved Inorg. C (SCO2)
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Plant pigments
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Water clarity
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Phytoplankton composition via diagnostic pigments (HPLC)
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Remote sensing/SeaWiFS & LIDAR
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Water surface temperature
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Phytoplankton cell counts and biomass (microscopic)
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Water column biomass and primary productivity
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Primary productivity (14C & O2)
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Spectral impacts of suspended materials
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Remotely sensed Chl data/linked to models of primary
productivity
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Water color
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In-water bio-optical properties
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Zooplankton and fish community biomass size spectra
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