Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve

A State-Federal Partnership Program

>> An Ecological Profile of the NBNERR

"An Ecological Profile of the Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve." Download individual chapters of the Reserve's site profile as PDF documents below. To download Adobe Acrobat Reader click on the icon below:


To request a copy of the site profile on CD please contact: Kenneth Raposa, PhD., kenny (at) nbnerr.org or 401-683-7849

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Cover (886 KB)
Preface (682 KB)
Table of Contents (192 KB)
Chapter 1 - The Ntl Estuarine Research Reserve System (480 KB)
Chapter 2 - The Narragansett Bay NERR (664 KB)
Chapter 3 - Human and Land-Use History of the NBNERR (601 KB)
Chapter 4 - Ecological Geography of the NBNERR (4.57 MB)
Chapter 5 - NBNERR Flora and Vegetation Communities (2.47 MB)
Chapter 6 - Terrestrial Fauna (3.12 MB)
Chapter 7 - Ecological Geography of Narragansett Bay (3.76 MB)
Chapter 8 - Estuarine Habitats of Narragansett Bay (2.52 MB)
Chapter 9 - Plankton and Benthos (1.10 MB)
Chapter 10 - Nekton (2.05 MB)
Chapter 11 - Aquatic Birds, Marine Mammals&Sea Turtles (706 KB)
Chapter 12 - Human Impacts on Narragansett Bay (1.66 MB)
Chapter 13 - Research and Monitoring at the NBNERR (1.65 MB)