1. Team work and safety
... water column and sediments from unknown or unregulated chemicals, non_chemical impacts, and altered physical habitat. Resident biota function as continual monitors of environmental quality, increasing the likelihood of detecting the effects of episodic events (e.g., spills, dumping, treatment plant malfunctions, nutrient enrichment), toxic nonpoint source pollution (e.g., agricultural pesticides), cumulative pollution (i.e., ... or continuous low-level stress), or other impacts that periodic chemical sampling is unlikely to detect. Impacts on the physical habitat such as sedimentation f...
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