Proceedings U S Fish And Wildlife Service Workshop On Coastal Ecosystems Of The Southeastern United States

Excerpt from U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Workshop on Coastal Ecosystems of the Southeastern United States Proceedings: A Compilation of Seminars, Discussions, Papers and Biological Summaries Presented at Big Pine Key, Florida, 18-22 February 1980 Many tidal salt marshes are good examples of detrital systems which export large amounts of organic matter to surrounding estuaries which support microbial popula tions, detritivorous animals, and ultimately fisheries. Where the production is pretty much consumed within the ecosystem, e.g., where a marsh might be heavily grazed or the grass (an: for hay, then there could be little or no export from the system, or export could be mostly in the form of nutrients which are released by the grazing activities. In these latter two examples the output environment differs in significant ways which are important to recognize not only from the standpoint of the value of the system itself, but also because of its impact on the adjacent sys tems which are receiving the ex ported material. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A bibliography comprising annotated citations of 2037 scientific and technical publications from ten series issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Includes a six-page introduction containing a history of the Service and a description of the research and development series.

The impetus for this volume was the 2nd International Wetlands Conference which was held in June, 1984 at Trebon, Czechoslovakia. An overview of the worlds wetlands was one of the themes of the conference and it was decided that a useful follow-up would be a publication on the same topic. The initial goal was to cover as many of the worlds wetlands as possible in one volume and to have an emphasis on wetland ecology, biota, classification, and management. Individuals who made presentations at the Trebon confer ence were asked to prepare chapters and the editors also solicited other contributions. For a variety of reasons, the initial goal has been difficult to reach, especially coverage of the entire globe, and it has been necessary to publish the contributions in more than one volume. Volume 1 represents the com pletion of the first phase of the project and it covers most of the Western Hemisphere, Australia, most of Africa, the Indian subcontinent, the Mediter ranean region, and Papua New Guinea. Volume 2 will contain chapters on Western Europe, Northern Europe, Central Europe, most of northern and It is our hope that Volume western Asia, the Middle East, and Indonesia. 2 will appear in the near future and, if possible, a third volume will be published if authors can be secured to cover areas such as the Far East, other parts of the Indo-Pacific region, and New Zealand.