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The plan defines biological response endpoint monitoring focused on seagrass as a sentinel indicator for proximal changes driven by increased nutrients and terrigenous sediment transport. 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Introduction and Background  \nGlobally, nearly a billion people live within 100 km of a coral reef ecosystem (Sing Wong et al. 2022) and potentially benefit from ecological services provided by seagrasses. Seagrasses are particularly vulnerable to human disturbances because they usually occupy sheltered, shallow nearshore waters proximal to coastal discharge and drainage endpoints. Sediment impacts (i.e., the combination of sedimentation and turbidity) on seagrass communities include light reduction, smothering, and changes in the physicochemical condition of the plant’s root microbiome; which together can reduce the depth range and areal extent of the meadow, decrease shoot density, and ultimately alter species composition and community function (Duarte 1987, Dennison 1997, Saunders et al. 2017) . Concomitantly, the excessive growth of epiphytes, macroalgae, and phytoplankton under high nutrient loads decreases seagrass growth and survival (Lee, Park & Kim 2007; Schmidt et al. 2012) .  \nThis monitoring work plan is a key component of Culebra’s LBSP Ridge to Reef Monitoring Program aimed at providing standardized guidelines and methods to monitor changes in landbased pollutant loads, nearshore land-based pollutant exposure, and seagrass habitat responses  \nacross the island. These monitoring activities are spatially and temporally coordinated and represent the basis of Culebra’s Integrated LBSP Monitoring and Evaluation Framework to successfully evaluate progress toward achieving NOAA’s LBSP management goals and outcomeson Culebra.  \n2. Monitoring Objectives  \nThis work plan addresses biological response endpoint monitoring; specifically, seagrass monitoring to evaluate proximal effects of LBSP management actions to address increased nutrients and terrigenous sediment transport to Ensenada Honda and associated nearshore waters of Culebra. Seagrass is viewed as a sentinel indicator of the effects of management actions because they are located more closely to the source of pollution than the coral reef track which is ultimately the key biological response endpoint of protection. Therefore, this monitoring is aligned with the following NOAA LBSP management goals, outcomes, and evaluation questions:  \nManagement Goal:  \n● Management Goal: By 2035, improvements to Culebra’s nearshore seagrass community condition.  \nManagement Outcomes:  \n● Improve nearshore seagrass habitat condition Evaluation Question:  \n• Have the seagrass habitat conditions improved?  \nThis seagrass monitoring work plan was designed to:  \n1. Develop status and trends baseline assessments to track changes in the condition of seagrass communities in the nearshore waters of Culebra.  \n2. Provide the basis to assess the performance of upland restoration activities to reduce LBSP impacts on nearshore habitats of Culebra.  \n3. Conduct outreach activities to inform and to engage both local community, federal, and Puerto Rican government officials in ongoing natural resource management, restoration, and conservation efforts on Culebra.  \n3. Monitoring Location and Frequency  \nIn 2014, NOAA Restoration Center and Coral Reef Conservation Program conducted a baseline assessment to provide estimates of pre-restoration conditions of the seagrass communities in Ensenada Honda and associated nearshore waters. Successive post-restoration status and trends monitoring was completed in 2022. The following sections briefly describe the methods and procedures implemented to collect those data.  \nMonitoring Locations  \nThe seagrass monitoring shall occur co-located with the fixed nearshore water quality and sediment trap monitoring stations identified in Figure 1 and Table 1. These locations were selected based on the following criteria:  \n1. Watershed hydrology and coastal hydrodynamics as well as the level of existing level LBSP expo","cbCainWtJHjifngg","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainWtJHjifngg","pdf",1148441,"English","# 1. Introduction and Background\n# 2. Monitoring Objectives\n# 3. 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