Assessment of Land Use Change and Riparian Zone Status in the Barneget Bay and Little Egg Harbor Watershed: 1995-2002-2006. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3736Q25
Subject (Geographic - Hierarchical) Country: United States State: New Jersey
Subject (Topical)contamination; environmental monitoring; industry; land; land use; pollution; watershed; eutrophication; nutrients; nitrogen; Grant F. Walton Center for Remote Sensing; Institute of Marine and Coastal Science; riparian zones; Barneget Bay and Little Egg Harbor Watershed
DescriptionThe Barneget Bay/Little Egg Harbor (BB/LEH) estuary is suffering from eutrophication issues due to nutrient, most importantly nitrogen, loading from both atmospheric as well as watershed sources. As part of ongoing monitoring efforts, the Grant F. Walton Center for Remote Sensing & Spatial Analysis, with funding provided by the Barneget Bay National Estuary Program, undertook to map and assess recent land use change in the Barneget Bay- Little Egg Harbor watand ershed. The BB/LEH estuary system is continuing to experience a significant conversion of forested and wetland habitats to urban land cover and thereby exacerbating nutrient loading to the BB/LEH estuary.
NotePurpose: To reveal how the landscape conversion of forested and wetland habitats to urban land cover and is exacerbating nutrient loading to the BB/LEH estuary.
Data Life Cycle Event(s) Date: 2009-05-18 00:00:00.0 Creator: Katherine Sullivan
Organization NameNew Jersey Environmental Digital Library
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