Estuaries of the Northeastern United States: Habitat and Land Use Signatures

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Relationships between Species Communities as Determined by Analysis of Data from Multiple Surveys of Pleasant Bay, Cape Cod, MA

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This Land is Your Land, this Could Be Marsh Land: Property Parcel Characteristics of Marsh Migration Corridors in Rhode Island, USA

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Deciphering patterns in whole fish nitrogen isotopes on a continental scale

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Estuaries

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The assessment of demersal fish community structure in Kuala Langsa estuary, Langsa City

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Upland vegetation removal as a potential tool for facilitating landward salt marsh migration

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Rapid Assessment of Intertidal Wetland Sediments

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Shallow Water Muddy Sands of the North-West Atlantic Ocean

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SALT MARSH MANAGEMENT: MONITORING THREATS AND IMPLEMENTING CLIMATE ADAPTATION INITIATIVES

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The Coastal Dynamics of Heterogeneous Sedimentary Environments: Numerical Modeling of Hydrodynamics and Mass Transport in Estuaries

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Seawater salinity and oxygen isotopes along the U.S. East Coast from 24 °N to 44 °N

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Nutrient Enrichment in Estuaries from Discharge of Shallow Ground Water, Mt. Desert Island, Maine

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CO-EVALUATION OF SUCCESS COMPONENTS IN SALT MARSH RESTORATION AND THE SHELLFISH INDUSTRY ON OUTER CAPE COD, MA

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INTERTIDAL INVERTEBRATES OF SCATARIE ISLAND: A PRELIMINARY SPECIES INVENTORY AND HABITAT DESCRIPTION

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Soil/Landscape Relationships in a Mesotidal

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Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Biological Nutrient Removal During Wastewater Treatment

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Levels and partitioning of genetic variation in populations of diamondback terrapins (Malaclemys terrapin) at their northern range extreme

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Selection of Estuarine Feeding Habitats by Snowy and Great Egrets in the Great Marsh Estuary, Northeastern Massachusetts, USA

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Comparative study of the mouthparts of different feeding crab species in the waters adjacent to the Yangtze River EstuaryPreprint

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Empirical relationships between land use/cover and estuarine condition in the Northeastern United States

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Geomorphological Evolution of Estuaries: The Dynamic Basis for Morpho-Sedimentary Units in Selected Estuaries in the Northeastern United States

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