Chesapeake Bay - Conceptual diagram of the causal hierarchy at which drivers, stressors, and responses operate
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Conceptual diagram of the causal hierarchy at which drivers, stressors, and responses operate. Large-scale drivers like land-use propagate down to catchment-scale stressors like water quality, which in turn are observed through responses like benthic macroinvertebrate biological indicators.
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