Estuaries, rias, fjords, coastal lagoons, bahiras, river mouths, tidal creeks, deltas and similar
coastal environments are often regarded as a single broad conceptual class.'Brackish',' …

The principle objective of this book is to review the biological characteristics of estuaries.
The volume has been as a text for undergraduates and graduate students as well as …

A multimetric benthic index of biotic integrity (B-IBI) was developed using data from five
Chesapeake Bay sampling programs conducted between 1972 and 1991. Attributes of the …

The significance of large motile predators in controlling the distribution and abundance of
the macrobenthic invertebrates within the sediments (the infauna) in a shallow subtidal sand …

The feeding behavior of six species of spionid polychaetes (Paraprionospio pinnata
(Ehlers), Polydora ligni Webster, Scolecolepides viridis (Verrill), Spiophanes bombyx …

Disturbance is a significant mortality source in many assemblages. The susceptibility of
organisms to this mortality source is, in part, a function of the availability of substrate …

Benthic fauna abundance, biomass and diversity were investigated in the northern Bering
and Chukchi Seas to determine factors influencing faunal distribution in this polar region …

Pollution of estuaries and coastal marine waters is of profound ecological and societal
importance. These coastal environments serve as critical habitat for a multitude of organisms …

Benthic faunal abundance, diversity, and biomass were examined in the northeastern
Chukchi Sea to determine factors influencing faunal distribution. Four taxon-abundance …

Various functional group hypotheses have provided different prehctions for the influence of
mobile deposit feeders on the composition of marine soft-sediment communities. Two that …