Ecological Processes in Coastal and Marine Systems

I. Introduction.- Ecology: A Science and a Religion.- II. Primary Production and Export Processes.- Production and Export of Sea Grasses from a Tropical Bay.- Interactions Between Georgia Salt Marshes and Coastal Waters: A Changing Paradigm.- Ecological Considerations of Detrital Aggregates in the Salt Marsh.- Factors Controlling the Flux of Particulate Organic Carbon from Estuarine Wetlands.- III. Energy Transfer and Trophic Relationships.- Effects of Surface Composition, Water Column Chemistry, and Time of Exposure on the Composition of the Detrital Microflora and Associated Macrofauna in Apalachicola Bay, Florida.- Deposit-Feeders, Their Resources, and the Study of Resource Limitation.- Cyclic Trophic Relationships of Fishes in an Unpolluted, River-Dominated Estuary in North Florida.- Secondary Production Mechanisms of Continental Shelf Communities.- IV. Benthic Community Organization.- Perspectives of Marine Meiofaunal Ecology.- Harpacticoid Copepods and Biogenic Structures: Implications for Deep-Sea Diversity Maintenance.- Predation, Competitive Exclusion, and Diversity in the Soft-Sediment Benthic Communities of Estuaries and Lagoons.- The Community Structure of Coral-Associated Decapod Crustaceans in Variable Environments.- V. Climatological Features and Physical/Chemical Influence on Biological Systems.- Aquatic Productivity and Water Quality at the Upland-Estuary Interface in Barataria Basin, Louisiana.- Long-Term Climatological Cycles and Population Changes in a River-Dominated Estuarine System.- Climatological Control of a North Florida Coastal System and Impact Due to Upland Forestry Management.- The Pass as a Physically-Dominated, Open Ecological System.- Perturbation Analysis of the New York Bight.- Ecological Significance of Fronts in the Southeastern Bering Sea.- VI. Estuarine/Shelf Interactions.- Anaerobic Benthic Microbial Processes: Changes from the Estuary to the Continental Shelf.- The Estuary/Continental Shelf as an Interactive System.- List of Contributors and Participants.- List of Reviewers.... Mehr