Seagrass Integrated Mapping and Monitoring Program: Mapping and monitoring report no. 2
This is the second edition of the Seagrass Integrated Mapping and Monitoring (SIMM) report, providing mapping and monitoring information for seagrasses throughout Florida’s coastal waters. Each regional chapter has been updated, and we have added information on management programs and water quality and clarity. For most regions, seagrass maps nowshow data gathered between 2010 and 2014. Exceptions include the Big Bend, Cedar Keys, Waccasassa Bay, the Charlotte Harbor region, Estero Bay, the Ten Thousand Islands, and Biscayne Bay; however, imagery was acquired in 2014 or 2015 with photo-interpretation underway for these remaining regions except Cedar Keys, Waccasassa Bay, and Biscayne Bay.The primary indicators derived from mapping projects are seagrass areal coverage and habitat texture (i.e., continuous or patchy). Secondary indicators of seagrass condition and health determined by mapping projects are estimates of gains and losses in cover and changes in texture determined from analyses of two most recent sets of imagery having the same spatial extent. Where successive imagery data sets are available, we have updated changes in seagrass acreage.
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| Format: | monograph biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
2016
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| Subjects: | Conservation, Environment, seagrass, seagrass abundance, seagrass mapping, seagrass monitoring, water quality, Florida, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/41129 |
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