The Northeast Shelf Ecosystem: Assessment, Sustainability, and Management

摘要: Part 1 Ecosystem sustainability: marine ecosystem sustainability the Northeast Shelf - stress, migration and ecological research for biosphere. 2 Physical biological characteristics: physical oceanography of slope seas from Cape Hatteras to Georges Bank a brief overview meteorology climate change winter coastal circulation in mid-Atlantic I region United States Continental off Coast States. 3 Population assessments: zooplankton dynamics ecosystems state groundfish resources Northeastern shifts cetacean distributions relative trends on Gulf Maine/Georges finfish abundance bird populations Maine prey field variability during collapse recovery pelagic fish ecosystem. 4 Environmental stresses ecosystem: contamination large metal concentrations flounder American lobster bivalve mollusks Boston Harbour, Salem Harbour Coastal Massachusetts riverine contributions heavy inputs nutrient loading eutrophication comparison Chesapeake Bay Hudson River estuarine systems preliminary estimates pollutant loads fluxes into shelf 5 Habitat degradation. 6 Stress environmental considerations. (Part contents)