| | Accession Number | 5004870 |
| | Title | Effects of off-road vehicle traffic on the biotic community of sandy beaches |
| | at Cape Cod National Seashore (CACO) |
| | Project Description | This project will assess the effects of off-road vehicle (ORV) traffic on the beach |
| | natural community of Cape Cod National Seashore (CACO) and provide baseline |
| | data to support a long-term monitoring program for selected indicator species. |
| | Monitoring samples will be designed to distinguish changes in the beach biota |
| | resulting from vehicle distrubance, from differences between monitoring samples |
| | due to short-term succession in clumps of wrack or from environmental differences |
| | between different beach types. The monitoring program will be narrowly-targeted so |
| | as to minimize time investment so that it can be carried out by Park staff over the |
| | long term. |
| | Keywords | beach invertebrates, beach wrack, coastal, monitoring, sandy beach, |
| | Principal | Howard S. Ginsberg, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center: |
| | Investigators | Howard_S_Ginsberg@usgs.gov |
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