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Benthic Community Dynamics in Coyote Creek and Artesian Slough, Southern San Francisco Bay, California, May 2016 to March 2018

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Start Date
2016-05
End Date
2018-03
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Shrader, K.H., Pearson, S.A., Parchaso, F., and Thompson, J.K., 2019, Benthic Community Dynamics in Coyote Creek and Artesian Slough, Southern San Francisco Bay, California, May 2016 to March 2018: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P978NE5M.

Summary

Benthic invertebrate communities are monitored because the composition of those communities can affect and be affected by the water quality of an aquatic system. Benthic communities use and sometimes regulate the cycling of essential elements (for example, carbon). Benthic invertebrate taxa may also indicate acute and chronic stressors in an environment because they accumulate contaminants and can respond – sometimes dramatically - to oligotrophic and eutrophic conditions. Benthic communities affect water quality by grazing pelagic food resources and increasing the rate of nutrient regeneration through feeding and bioturbating sediments. South San Francisco Bay is a system dependent on phytoplankton as the base to the food web. Despite [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Kelly H Shrader
Originator :
Kelly H Shrader, Sarah A Pearson, Francis Parchaso, Janet K Thompson
Metadata Contact :
Kelly H Shrader
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Data Owner :
National Research Program
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
National Research Program
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources

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Shrader_etal_metadata_20190904.xml
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View 		95.23 KB application/fgdc+xml
SB_Sloughs.jpg thumbnail 3.88 MB image/jpeg
Station Location_Table.docx
“Station Locations” 		16.14 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
ALL_Benthic.xlsx
“Species Counts by Station” 		92.65 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet

Purpose

Our primary objective in this study is to quantify current (2016-2018) benthic-community structure and function in the South San Francisco Bay, and to compare those communities to the communities found in the neighboring sloughs. The study area is inclusive of the area south of the Dumbarton Bridge including Coyote Creek and Artisan Slough.
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