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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
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

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

Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords v15.9

  • Earth Science > Biosphere > Aquatic Ecosystems > Wetlands > Marshes

DFO Areas

  • North Pacific Ocean > Fraser River and BC Interior

Language

English

Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Environment
Description

Three sites were selected on the estuary representing different habitat types

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Begin
1980-01
End
1980-02
Distribution format
Name Version

electronic

none

Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Pacific Salmon Foundation

Isobel Pearsall

pearsalli@shaw.ca

Distributor
OnLine resource
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
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Statement

Levings produced paper copy. Fraser scanned with Fujitsu Scansnap s1500 (ABBY Finereader OCR software).

Metadata

File identifier
84a6b561-80ec-4a26-b8c9-7be4d68b90a7 XML
Metadata language

eng

Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2023-12-19T00:18:01.738Z
Metadata standard name

North American Profile of ISO19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata

Metadata standard version

NAP - CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Pacific Salmon Foundation

Sarah Fraser

fraser.sarahk@gmail.com

Author
Other language
Language Character encoding
French UTF8
English UTF8
 
 

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Keywords

Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords v15.9
Earth Science > Biosphere > Aquatic Ecosystems > Wetlands > Marshes

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