Medium salinity plankton systems
Date
1974
Authors
Bellis, V.
Journal Title
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Publisher
Conservation Foundation
Abstract
This article presents a discussion of the middle estuary. This part of an estuary is difficult to define. An arbitrary working definition has been accepted by many persons in the field: the characteristics of the middle estuary correspond most closely with portions of the estuary having average salinities between 5-18 ppt. The middle estuary is important because the greatest area of many North American estuaries of this type, and it is this coast estuaries seem to have significant middle salinity regions.
Description
pgs. 358-396
Keywords
estuaries, plankton, salinity gradients, marine fisheries, food webs, organic matter, biomass, estuarine ecology, estuaries, estuarine oceanography