LibGuides: MRN 327: Biodiversity: Sample Documents

Sample Documents & Reports

Push for a New National Park in Alabama Is an Upstream Battle (PBS Newshour, 22 April 2016)
Southern Alabama’s Mobile-Tensaw River Delta is one of the most biologically diverse spots in North America. Some environmental activists, among them E.O. Wilson, are pushing for a new national park in the area to protect the delta’s biodiversity from development.

Evaluation of the potential impacts of the proposed Mobile Harbor navigation channel expansion on the aquatic resources of Mobile Bay, Alabama.
Berkowitz JF, Altman S, Reine KJ, Gerald TK, Piercy CD, Swannack TM, Slack WT, Philley KD, Beane NR, Saltus CL, et al. 2020
Landsat-based Assessment of Mobile Bay Land Use and Land Cover Change from 1974 to 2008.
Regional urbanization threatens the estuary’s water quality and aquatic-habitat dependent biota,
including commercial fisheries and avian wildlife. Coastal conservation and urban land use planners
require additional information on historical LULC change to support coastal habitat restoration and
resiliency management efforts.
Watershed and Hydrodynamic Modeling for Evaluating the Impact of Land Use Change on Submerged Aquatic Vegetation and Seagrasses in Mobile Bay.
This phase of the project has focused on sediment modeling because of its significant influence on light attenuation which is a critical factor in the health of submerged aquatic vegetation. NTIS Report # M10-0044.
VDatum for the Northeast Gulf of Mexico from Mobile Bay AL, to Cape San Blas, FL: Tidal Datum Modeling and Population of the Marine Grids.
E. A. Dhingra, K. W. Hess. NOAA, 2008

Harmful Algal Blooms in the Mississippi Sound and Mobile Bay: Using MODIS Aqua and In Situ Data for HABs in the Northern Gulf of Mexico.
D. Holiday a, G. Carter, et al. Phytoplankton populations and in situ water quality were monitored at 3 to 6 week intervals at 17 locations in Mobile Bay and the Mississippi Sound.