Classification of Pamlico Sound Nursery Areas: Recommendations for CriticalHabitat Criteria

摘要

A monitoring program of the Pamlico Sound estuaries complex was initiated in 1971by the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries. This long-term database includes environmental variables and juvenile finfish and crustacean relative abundance and diversity. Classification analysis of over 300 stations by abiotic variables and percent composition of sixteen target species produced distinct station groupings.