Ecology of Buzzards Bay Ecology of Buzzards Bay : an estuarine profile ecologyofbuzzard00howe Year: 1996 112 BIOLOGICAL REPORT 31 200 '150 c 100 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 Upland area () -50 100 Fig. Hypsometric curves for the upland areas of the Buzzards Bay towns of New Bedford and Wareham Adapted from Giese (1989). the face of a rising bay. Almost half (47 km2) of the upland surface of Wareham is less than 12 m above sea level, while only 15 (7 km2) is this low for New Bedford (Fig. ). It is possible to determine bay-wide land loss using hypsometric curves for each coastal town in the
Ecology of Buzzards Bay Ecology of Buzzards Bay : an estuarine profile ecologyofbuzzard00howe Year: 1996 112 BIOLOGICAL REPORT 31 200 '150 c 100 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 Upland area () -50 100 Fig. Hypsometric curves for the upland areas of the Buzzards Bay towns of New Bedford and Wareham Adapted from Giese (1989). the face of a rising bay. Almost half (47 km2) of the upland surface of Wareham is less than 12 m above sea level, while only 15 (7 km2) is this low for New Bedford (Fig. ). It is possible to determine bay-wide land loss using hypsometric curves for each coastal town in the watershed and the predicted rate of sea-level rise. The major weakness in this method is not the hypsometric approach but the prediction of future water levels (Fig. ). As stated above, at present the eustatic component is about one-third of the total rise ( m out of m/100 years). Meiei (1989) Gornitzelal (1982) ' Oerlemans (1989) -Q Raperelal (1990) 'â !
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