Northeastern Naturalist Volume 27, Special Issue 10, 2020

Marine Ecosystem Assessment of Pleasant Bay, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

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Front cover
Inside front cover
Board of Editors/indicia page
General Acknowledgments	i
Foreword Mon Cochran	ii
Introduction to Special Issue: Marine Ecosystem Assessment of Pleasant Bay, Cape Cod, Massachusetts Patricia E. Hughes	iii

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Tidal Inlet Evolution and Impacts of Anthropogenic Alteration: An Example from Nauset Beach and Pleasant Bay, Cape Cod, Massachusetts Graham S. Giese, Mark Borrelli,, and Stephen T. Mague	1
Using CMECS to Create Benthic Habitat Maps for Pleasant Bay, Cape Cod, Massachusetts Agnes Mittermayr, Bryan J. Legare, Cristina G. Kennedy, Sophia E. Fox, and Mark Borrelli	22
The Use of Multimodal Data to Augment Shallow-water Benthic Habitat Maps for Pleasant Bay, Cape Cod, Massachusetts: Stratigraphic Data and Seafloor Maps Mark Borrelli, Bryan Andrew Oakley, Jeremiah Bradford Hubeny, Heath Love, Theresa Lynn Smith, Bryan Joseph Legare, and Ted Lucas	48
Seasonal Occurrence and Relative Abundance of Fishes and Macroinvertebrates in Pleasant Bay (Massachusetts) Owen C. Nichols, Bryan J. Legare, Timothy Famulare, Emily Sgarlat, and Ted Lucas	76
The Seasonal Diet, Distribution, and Counts of Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina vitulina) and Gray Seals (Halichoerus grypus atlantica) in Pleasant Bay and Chatham Harbor, Cape Cod, Massachusetts Lisa Sette, Corey M. Accardo, Katherine McKenna, Kristen Patchett, Kathryn Rose, Brian W. Sharp, and Gordon T. Waring	98
Relationships between Species Communities as Determined by Analysis of Data from Multiple Surveys of Pleasant Bay, Cape Cod, MA Bryan J. Legare, Owen C Nichols, Agnes Mittermayr, and Mark Borrelli	114
Calculating Rates of Shoreline Change in a Coastal Embayment with Fringing Salt Marsh Using the “Marshline”, a Proxy-based Shoreline Indicator Mark Borrelli and Jon C. Boothroyd	132

Marine Ecosystem Assessment of Pleasant Bay, Cape Cod, MA: Conclusions Patricia E. Hughes	156