Land Margin Ecosystem Research Project
Project DescriptionThe Chesapeake Bay Land Margin Ecosystem Reserch (LMER) project
investigates mechanisms affecting secondary production of estuarine
The Chesapeake Bay LMER project, called Trophic Interactions in
Estuarine Systems, or TIES, began in 1995 and is scheduled to run
until the year 2000. The project uses Chesapeake Bay to investigate
mechanisms controlling secondary product ion in estuarine ecosystems.
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