Marsh Rehabilitation on the Fraser River Estuary: A Pilot Project
Transplantation of marsh vegetation as a means of habitat stabilization and rehabilitation has been carried out in estuaries and rivers of the United States for some time. However, little use has been made of this technique of estuarine rehabilitation in Canada.This report presents some preliminary findings after one season's growth in 1979.
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- Date (Publication)
- 1980
- Cited responsible party
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role West Vancouver Laboratory
Colin Levings
Principal investigator Department of Fisheries and Oceans
W.M. Pomeroy
Principal investigator
- Presentation form
- Digital document
- Purpose
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The present pilot study was undertaken to:(l) determine the best method for collecting, transporting and planting marsh vegetation; (2) identify the best species to transplant into an area and; (3) identify factors (physical, chemical and/or biological) which may influence the success of transplantation.
- Status
- Completed
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords v15.9
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Earth Science > Biosphere > Aquatic Ecosystems > Wetlands > Marshes
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DFO Areas
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North Pacific Ocean > Fraser River and BC Interior
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English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
- Description
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Three sites were selected on the estuary representing different habitat types
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- Begin
- 1980-01
- End
- 1980-02
- Distribution format
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Name Version electronic
none
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Pacific Salmon Foundation
Isobel Pearsall
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/data-donnees/index-eng.html DFO Science website
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
https://soggy2.zoology.ubc.ca/geonetwork/srv/api/records/84a6b561-80ec-4a26-b8c9-7be4d68b90a7/attachments/84a6b561-80ec-4a26-b8c9-7be4d68b90a7.pdf 84a6b561-80ec-4a26-b8c9-7be4d68b90a7.pdf
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- Dataset
- Statement
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Levings produced paper copy. Fraser scanned with Fujitsu Scansnap s1500 (ABBY Finereader OCR software).
Metadata
- File identifier
- 84a6b561-80ec-4a26-b8c9-7be4d68b90a7 XML
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eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2023-12-19T00:18:01.738Z
- Metadata standard name
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North American Profile of ISO19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
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NAP - CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Pacific Salmon Foundation
Sarah Fraser
Author
- Other language
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Language Character encoding French UTF8 English UTF8
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