Estuarine Research

Chemistry, Biology, and the Estuarine System is the first volume of a series launched by Estuarine Research Foundation to present information and concepts regarding the estuaries in the world. The contents of this volume are papers presented in a conference held in South Carolina in October 1973.
The book is divided into three major subject areas, namely, Chemistry, Biology, and Estuarine System. The first part focuses on the cycling of elements and estuaries. The second part deals with the dynamics of the food webs in various estuaries. The last section discusses the estuarine system, specifically estuarine modeling. In this part, several estuarine models in different locations are explored. Model analysis as well as utility of systems models is covered in this section.
This volume serves as a valuable source of information to interested parties in the field of ecology, biology, chemistry, environmental science, etc.

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Preface
Contents of Volume II
Part I Chemistry: Cycling of Elements in Estuaries
Sediment-Water Exchange in Chesapeake Bay
The Accumulation of Metals in and Release from Sediments of Long Island Sound
Role of Juvenile Fish in Cycling of Mn, Fe, Cu, and Zn in a Coastal-Plain Estuary
Geochemistry of Mercury in the Estuarine Environment
Phosphorus Flux and Cycling in Estuaries
Heavy Metal Fluxes Through Salt-Marsh Estuaries
Processes Controlling the Dissolved Silica Distribution in San Francisco Bay
Processes Affecting the Composition of Estuarine Waters (HCO3, Fe, Mn, Zn, Cu, Ni, Cr, Co, and Cd).
Part II Biology: Dynamics of Food Webs in Estuaries
Detritus Production in Coastal Georgia Salt Marshes
Microbial ATP and Organic Carbon in Sediments of the Newport River Estuary, North Carolina
Preliminary Studies with a Large Plastic Enclosure
The Detritus-Based Food Web of an Estuarine Mangrove Community
Sources and Fates of Nutrients of the Pamlico River Estuary, North Carolina
Nutrient Inputs to the Coastal Zone: The Georgia and South Carolina Shelf
Population Dynamics of Zooplankton in the Middle St. Lawrence Estuary
The Ecological Significance of the Zooplankton in the Shallow Subtropical Waters of South Florida
Relationship of Larval Dispersal, Gene-flow and Natural Selection to Geographic Variation of Benthic Invertebrates in Estuaries and Along Coastal Regions
Geographical Distribution and Morphological Divergence in American Coastal-zone Planktonic Copepods of the Genus Labidocera
Nektonic Food Webs in Estuaries
Consumption and Utilization of Food by Various Postlarval and Juvenile Fishes of North Carolina Estuaries
Some Aspects of Fish Production and Cropping in Estuarine Systems
The Effects of Power Plants on Productivity of the Nekton
Structural and Functional Aspects of a Recently Established Zostera marina Community
Quantitative and Dynamic Aspects of the Ecology of Turtle Grass, Thalassia testudinum
The Role of Resuspended Bottom Mud in Nutrient Cycles of Shallow Embayments
Part III The Estuarine System: Estuarine Modeling
A Preliminary Ecosystem Model of Coastal Georgia Spartina Marsh
The A posteriori Aspects of Estuarine Modeling
Utility of Systems Models: A Consideration of Some Possible Feedback Loops of the Peruvian Upwelling Ecosystem
Relationship between Morphometry and Biological Functioning in Three Coastal Inlets of Nova Scotia
The Estuarine Ecosystem(s) at Beaufort, North Carolina
An Ecological Simulation Model of Narragansett Bay - The Plankton Community
A Tophic Level Ecosystem Model Analysis of the Plankton Community in a Shallow-water subtropical Estuarine Embayment
Educing and Modeling the Functional Relationships within Sublittoral Salt-marsh Aufwuchs Communities - Inside one of the Black Boxes
Index