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Consortium for Estuarine Ecoindicator Research for the Gulf of Mexico
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Goals
Our main objective is to study, develop and validate indicators of nutrient and dissolved oxygen (DO) impacts on estuarine condition at four levels of increasing biological complexity (Individual, Population, Community and Ecosystem/Watershed), and to integrate the suite of indicator responses through models that can be used to describe the “health” of an estuarine ecosystem. These indicators can be used in long-term monitoring of estuarine conditions in the Gulf of Mexico, which has broader applicability to shallow estuaries of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
