Related Information

Agresti and Caffo, 2000
Alden et al., 2002
Dauer, 1993
Dauer, 1997
Dauer and Alden, 1995
Dauer and Llansó, 2003
Dauer et al., 1993
Dauer et al., 1992
Dauer et al., 2000
Llansó, 1992
Llansó and Volstad, 2001
Llansó et al., 2003
Pearson and Rosenberg, 1978
Ranasinghe et al., 1994
Sen, 1968
van Belle and Hughes, 1984
Weisberg et al., 1997

• Eyes on the Bay


• The Chesapeake Bay Program


• The Chesapeake Information Management System (CIMS)


• Maryland Department of Natural Resources


• Virginia Department of Environmental Quality


• USEPA's Chesapeake Bay Website


• North American Benthological Society


• VIMS Benthic Ecology


• Chesapeake Bay Tidal Monitoring and Analysis Workgroup (TMAW)

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Dauer, D. M. 1993. Biological criteria, environmental health and estuarine macrobenthic community structure. Marine Pollution Bulletin 26:249-257.

Dauer, D. M. 1997. Dynamics of an estuarine ecosystem: Long-term trends in the macrobenthic communities of the Chesapeake Bay, USA (1985-1993). Oceanologica Acta 20:291-298.

Dauer, D. M. and R. W. Alden. 1995. Long-term trends in the macrobenthos and water quality of the lower Chesapeake Bay (1985-1991). Marine Pollution Bulletin 30:840-850.

Dauer, D. M. and R. J. Llansó. 2003. Spatial scales and probability based sampling in determining levels of benthic community degradation in the Chesapeake Bay. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 81:175-186.

Dauer, D. M., M. W. Luckenbach, and A. J. Rodi, Jr. 1993. Abundance biomass comparison (ABC method): effects of an estuarine gradient, anoxic/hypoxic events and contaminated sediments. Marine Biology 116:507-518.

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Llansó, R. J. and J. H. Volstad. 2001. Patuxent River Oil Spill: Assessment of Impacts on Benthos. Prepared for Swanson Creek Natural Resource Damage Assessment Trustee Council by Versar, Inc., Columbia, Maryland. 34 pp. + Appendicies.

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Ranasinghe, J. A., S. B. Weisberg, D. M. Dauer, L. C. Schaffner, R. J. Diaz, and J. B. Frithsen. 1994. Chesapeake Bay Benthic Community Restoration Goals. Prepared for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Chesapeake Bay Office, and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources by Versar, Inc. Chesapeake Bay Program Report No. CBP/TRS 107/94. 49 pp. plus appendices.

Sen, P. K. 1968. Estimates of the regression coefficient based on Kendall's tau. Journal of the American Statistical Association 63:1379-1389.

van Belle, G. and J. P. Hughes. 1984. Nonparametric tests for trend in water quality. Water Resources Research 20:127-136.