The Estuarine Ecosystem - McLusky, Donald S.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1989)
1 The Estuarine Environment -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Estuarine circulation -- 1.3 Estuarine sediments -- 1.4 Other physico-chemical factors -- 1.5 Distribution of estuarine organisms -- 1.6 The problems of life in estuaries -- 1.7 The estuarine food web -- 2 Primary Producers: Plant production and its availability -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Salt marshes -- 2.3 Intertidal plants -- 2.4 Phytoplankton -- 2.5 Detritus -- 2.6 Summation of plant and microbial production in estuaries -- 3 Primary Consumers: Herbivores and detritivores -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The mud dwellers -- 3.3 The surface dwellers -- 3.4 Meiofauna -- 3.5 Zooplankton -- 3.6 The primary consumer community -- 4 The Secondary Consumers: Carnivores -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Fish -- 4.3 Invertebrates -- 4.4 Birds -- 4.5 The impact of the secondary consumers -- 5 Estuarine Pollution -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Mankind's use of estuaries -- 5.3 Methodologies of studying pollution -- 5.4 Organic enrichment -- 5.5 Industrial contamination -- 5.6 Reclamation and engineering works -- 6 The Management of Estuaries -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Policies -- 6.3 Planning -- 6.4 Practice -- Reading List.
Keywords: Science; Science, general; Science, general