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Title: California Coastal Eelgrass Habitats, 2010

Dates

• Issued: 2014
• Coverage: 2010

Publishers

• California. Department of Fish and Game. Marine Resources Region

Summary

This polygon shapefile depicts eelgrass beds on the central California coast that provide foraging, breeding, or nursery areas for invertebrates, fish and birds. The most common type of seagrass in California is Zostera, or eelgrass, which grows under water in estuaries and in shallow coastal bays of the ecoregion. This flowering plant, not an alga, occurs in dense beds and helps prevent erosion and maintain stability near shore by anchoring sediment with its spreading rhizomes and slowing water flow. This file aggregates data from several sources across multiple years. Features shown here should not be considered a representation of condition for any given year, but represent the maximum extent of eelgrass found across multiple surveys over multiple years. This coverage represents eelgrass distribution on the central California coast. California Department of Fish and Wildlife Marine Resources Region. (2014). California Coastal Eelgrass Habitats, 2010. California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Marine Resources Region. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/nh128ss8368. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

Subjects

• Oceans
• Coasts
• Eelgrass
• Seagrasses
• Zostera marina
• Biology and Ecology
• Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

• Bounding Box: BBOX (-124.316219, -117.098013, 40.857744, 32.600403)
• Geometry: BBOX (-124.316219, -117.098013, 40.857744, 32.600403)

Provider

Stanford

Rights

• Access rights: Public

Citation

California. Department of Fish and Game. Marine Resources Region. California Coastal Eelgrass Habitats, 2010. California. Department of Fish and Game. Marine Resources Region. Polygon data. https://purl.stanford.edu/nh128ss8368

Format

Shapefile

Languages

• English