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Microbial communities and functional diversity in seafood
Abstract Functional diversity encompasses ecosystem processes that enhance adaptability to environmental change. This study explores the diversity of microorganisms associated with seafood. In this paper, we present our knowledge of microbial diversity in relation to seafood.
Christian Larbi Ayisi +3 more
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Low dissolved oxygen (DO) conditions pose a persistent threat to aquatic life in coastal ecosystems. In Chesapeake Bay, DO criteria are used to evaluate restoration progress, but traditional assessment methods—such as binary pass/fail outcomes and ...
Qian Zhang +5 more
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Fisheries Assessment and Management Synthesis: Lessons for Chesapeake Bay
Describes the basic approaches that are used for stock assessment of the fish and shellfish stocks of the Chesapeake Bay system. The authors summarize the principal methods of stock assessment and fisheries management that have been and are being-applied
Nelson, Steven J. +2 more
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The Impact of the Chesapeake Bay Program on Pennsylvania Application Rates for the Environmental Quality Incentive Program [PDF]
This paper presents an application of matching on propensity score to evaluate the impact of the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) on farmers' willingness to participate in the United States Department of Agriculture Environmental Quality Incentive Program ...
Wright, Christopher
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Progress is reported on studies on the geochemistry and fate of trace amounts of Fe, Mn, Cu, and Zn in surface waters and sediments of the Susquehanna River and Chesapeake Bay.
Grant, V., Eaton, A. D., Gross, M. G.
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Illness caused by pathogenic strains of Vibrio bacteria incurs significant economic and health care costs in many areas around the world. In the Chesapeake Bay, the two most problematic species are V. vulnificus and V.
Barbara A. Muhling +4 more
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A Socio-Economic Overview of the Chesapeake Bay Fisheries [PDF]
The marine resources of the Chesapeake Bay are believed to provide substantial benefit to residents of the State of Maryland and Virginia. However, the possibility of overfishing and degradation of the marine environment seriously jeopardizes the ...
Kirkley, James E.
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Characterization of Pathogenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus from the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland
Vibrio parahaemolyticus is the leading cause of bacterial gastroenteritis associated with seafood consumption in the United States. Here we investigated the presence of virulence factors and genetic diversity of V.
Arlene J. Chen +14 more
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Chesapeake Bay Plume Dynamics from LANDSAT
Examination of 81 dates of Landsat images with enhancement and density slicing has shown that the Chesapeake Bay plume usually frequents the Virginia coast south of the Bay mouth. Southwestern (compared to northern) winds spread the plume easterly over a
Munday, John C., Fedosh, Michael S.
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Excessive nitrogen (N) pollution in the Chesapeake Bay is threatening ecological health. This study presents a multilayer N flow network model where each network layer represents a stage in the production step from raw agricultural commodities such as ...
Michael Gomez +6 more
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