In most parts of the country there is no simple and reliable way for vacationers to find out about water quality at individual beaches.
Future assessments of the beach clam resources need to account for inherent differences in populations across individual beaches, including non-fished (control) beaches.
EFA not only provides general observations allowing beaches to be compared and contrasted, but it also gives useful insight on individual beaches, allowing for better-informed decision-making and tailored management.
Moreover, it can significantly contribute to the development of Beach Management Framework aimed to support an effective management of individual beaches, enhance beach tourism, boost income, and in long term, to support a sustainable development of coastal areas.
Amphipod mass on individual beaches was assumed to be constant over the study period for two reasons: (1) the majority of mass consisted of adults from the overwintering population and (2) juveniles had not yet recruited to the adult-sized population and were excluded by the 0.75 mm mesh size.
Because of the relatively small number of individual beaches used in these studies, Bayesian confidence intervals ("credible intervals") for the mean probabilities of HCGI and NGI [=α/ from the beta-binomial parameters] and risk ratio of NGI to HCGI were evaluated via Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) estimation using WinBUGS version 1.4.3 [ 31].
We constructed separate layers according to distinct biological/spatial scales, including a layer for nesting sites (i.e. individual nesting beaches), and two layers for genetic stocks (i.e. a layer each for maternally inherited mtDNA and biparentally inherited nDNA, respectively).
The proper plaintiffs include the private individuals whose beaches and wharfs have been blackened by the oil spill.
Are we to have another waterfront slum?" Fifteen years later, the city's parks department established the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, and Herbert Johnson, its first superintendent, had a crew of workers transplant more than 1.5 million individual clumps of beach grass from the nearby shore to a newly dredged plot of land.
