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Title: Estuarine Living Marine Resources: West Coast Regional Distribution and Abundance (NCEI Accession 0161540)
Abstract: This is the West Coast regional component of NOAA’s Estuarine Living Marine Resources (ELMR) Project, a national database of ecologically and economically important fishes and invertebrates in the Nation's estuaries. The distribution and relative abundance are depicted in a consistent format for 47 species of fishes and invertebrates, in 32 estuaries in coastal California, Oregon, and Washington State. Species were selected according to a set of criteria, which consider their commercial, recreational, and ecological value, as well as their utility as an indicator of environmental stress. For each species, five life stages are considered - adults, juveniles, larvae, spawning, and eggs - with some exceptions based on individual species life history. Each estuary is subdivided into one to three salinity zones (Tidal Fresh, Mixing, and Seawater). Relative abundance was ranked on a five-tier scale by month for each life stage of each species, in each salinity zone of each estuary. Details of the methods and resulting life history summaries for the West Coast ELMR component can be found in Monaco et al. (1990) and Emmett et al. (1991).
Date received: 20170228
Start date: 19850101
End date: 19900101
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West boundary: -125
East boundary: -117
North boundary: 49
South boundary: 32
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Supplementary information: Submission Package ID: LFNBLF
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Metadata version: 1
Keydate: 2017-03-07 20:07:49+00
Editdate: 2017-03-07 20:07:59+00