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

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...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alviso Slough, Annelids, Aquatic Biology, Benthic Ecosystems, Benthos, All tags... Bivalves, California, Community Ecology, Coyote Creek, Crustaceans, Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Ecology, San Francisco Bay, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), slough, Fewer tags

Northeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program Near Shore Trawl Survey (NEAMAP)

NEAMAP stands for NorthEast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program. NEAMAP was developed to meet the needs of fisheries management and stock assessment activities in the northeastern United States. NEAMAP began in 2006 with a fall pilot survey and in 2008 began conducting both a spring and fall survey. NEAMAP samples from Cape Cod, MA south to Cape Hatteras, NC and targets both juvenile and adult fishes. NEAMAP is an integrated, cooperative state/federal data collection program. Its mission is to facilitate the collection and dissemination of fishery-independent information obtained in the Northeast for use by state and federal fisheries management agencies, the fishing industry (commercial and recreational),...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Anelídeo, Artrópode, Atlantic hagfish, Atlantic ridley, Atlantic ridley sea turtle, All tags... Atlantic surfclam, Cifozoa, Green Sea Turtle, Green Sea Turtles, Kemp's Ridley, Kemp's ridley sea turtle, Loggerhead, Loggerhead Sea Turtles, Mid-Atlantic, USA, Multispecies, Multispecies Fisheries, Multispecies Fisheries Research, Reptiles, Ridley Sea Turtles, Sea Turtles, Tortuga-marina caguama, Tortuga-marina verde-del Atlántico, Turtles, aigles de mer, anchois, anchovies, anglerfishes, anguilles, annelids, annélides, antozoário, anémones de mer, anêmona, arachnids, aracnídeo, araignées, aranhas, arañas, arthropodes, arthropods, arácnidos, aulopiforms, bait shrimp, balistes, batrachoidiforms, baudroies, blue mussel, bolacha da praia, bonnethead sharks, bony fishes, brown shrimp, brujas, butterfly rays, cabbagehead, camarón blanco, camarón blanco norteño, camarón café, camarón café norteño, camarón fijador, camarón moreno, camarón pardo, camarón rosado norteño, cannonball jelly, cannonball jellyfish, caravela, cartilaginous fishes, cazones, cazones aguijones, chabots, channeled whelk, cheliceriformes, chiens de mer, chordates, cifozoário, clawed lobsters, cloportes, cnidaires, cnidarians, cnidario, cods, coelenterates, coelentérés, colorful sea whip, common green sea turtle, condrictes, corais, coral, corals, coraux, cordado, cordés, cow-nose rays, cowfishes, cownose rays, crabes, crabs, crayfishes, crevette gambri, crevette ligubam de nord, crevette rodché, crevette royale grise, crevettes, crevettes pénaéïdes, crustaceans, crustacés, crustáceo, cup animals, dogfish sharks, eagle rays, echinoderms, edible blue mussel, eels, electric rays, equinoderma, equinodermata, esponja, estrela do mar, esturgeons, esturiones, filefishes, flatfishes, flounders, flower animals, gadiforms, golden shrimp, gorgônia, grenadiers, ground sharks, hagfishes, hakes, hammerhead sharks, harengs, herrings, hidra, hidrozoa, hidrozoário, homards, horseshoe crabs, hound sharks, houndsharks, hydraires, hydralike animals, hydroids, hydromedusae, hydrozoaires, hydrozoans, isopodes, isopods, jaquetones, jellyfish, jellyfishes, knobbed whelk, leatherjackets, limandes, lion's mane, lobsters, loggerhead sea turtle, mackerel sharks, mail-cheeked fishes, mangeurs d'hommes, marine turtles, meduza, merlus, minhoca, modern sea turtles, molluscs, mollusks, mollusques, molusco, moon jelly, morues, mourines, mullets, myxine du nord, myxines, méduses, neopterygians, northern brown shrimp, northern pink shrimp, northern quahog, northern white shrimp, ophidiiforms, osteíceto, ouriço do mar, paddlefishes, pastenagues, peixe cartilaginoso, peixe ósseo, penaeid shrimps, penaeoid shrimps, perch-like fishes, pillbugs, pink shrimp, pipefishes, plies, poisson épineux, poissons cartilagineux, poissons osseux, poissons plats, poissons à nageoires rayonnées, poissons-coffres, poissons-globes, poissons-scie, porbeagles, porifero, prawns, puffers, purple-spined sea urchin, pólipo, quelicerado, queliceriforme, raies, raies-papillons, rascasses, ray-finned fishes, rayas, rayas gavilán, rayas látigo, rayas mariposa, rays, red shrimp, redtail shrimp, reptiles, requiem sharks, requins, requins-marteaux, requins-renards, requins-taupes, right-handed hermit crabs, rock crabs, roughneck shrimp, répteis, salmons, sand dollars, sanguessuga, sawfishes, scoophead sharks, scorpion fishes, sculpins, sea anemones, sea scallop, sharks, short-tailed crabs, shrimp, skates, smooth dogfishes, smooth-hounds, soft corals, soles, sowbugs, spider crabs, spiders, spiny dogfishes, spiny rayed fishes, sponges, spoonfishes, spotted shrimp, squillid mantis shrimps, sticklebacks, stingrays, sturgeons, swimming crabs, tamburataca, terrapins, thecate hydroids, thresher sharks, tiburones gambuso, tiburones martillo, tiburones zorro, topes, torpedo electric rays, torpedo rays, torpedoes, torpedos, torpilles, tortoises, tortues, triggerfishes, true crabs, trunkfishes, tubarão, vertebrado, vertebrates, vertébrés, whip-tail stingrays, whiprays, whiptail stingrays, whiskery sharks, white sharks, white shrimp, água viva, águilas marinas, échinodermes, écrevisses, émissoles, éponges, Fewer tags