Valuing Puget Sound’s Valued Ecosystem Components Prepared in support of the Puget Sound Nearshore Partnership

Nearshore Birds in Puget Sound Prepared in support of the Puget Sound Nearshore Partnership

ii Nearshore Birds in Puget Sound T he Puget Sound Nearshore Partnership (PSNP) has developed a list of valued ecosystem components (VECs). The list of VECs is meant to represent a cross-section of organisms and physical structures that occupy and interact with the physical processes found in the near-shore. The VECs will help PSNP frame the symptoms of declining Puget Sound nearshore ecosystem...

Technical Report 2007 - 04 Beaches and Bluffs of Puget Sound Prepared in support of the Puget Sound Nearshore Partnership

T he Puget Sound Nearshore Partnership (PSNP) has developed a list of valued ecosystem components (VECs). The list of VECs is meant to represent a cross-section of organisms and physical structures that occupy and interact with the physical processes found in the near-shore. The VECs will help PSNP frame the symptoms of declining Puget Sound nearshore ecosystem integrity, explain how ecosystem ...

Marine Riparian Vegetation Communities of Puget Sound Prepared in support of the Puget Sound Nearshore Partnership

Front and back cover photos courtesy of Washington Sea Grant. T he Puget Sound Nearshore Partnership (PSNP) has developed a list of valued ecosystem components (VECs). The list of VECs is meant to represent a cross-section of organisms and physical structures that occupy and interact with the physical processes found in the near-shore. The VECs will help PSNP frame the symptoms of declining Pug...

Beaches and Bluffs of Puget Sound and the Northern Straits Prepared in support of the Puget Sound Nearshore Partnership

A Partnership for Modeling the Marine Environment of Puget Sound, Washington – Puget Sound Naval Shipyard/Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Report

Estuaries, fjords and sounds are important, major components of marine ecosystems worldwide. Because of this, and their generally poor treatment by man, large estuaries should be the focus of largescale, multidisciplinary, integrative modeling efforts. We need to both understand how these systems work, and be able to predict how they will respond to changes, whether natural or anthropogenic. Pu...