Shore ecology of the Gulf of Mexico:
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1989
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| Beschreibung: | VIII, 387 S. Ill., Kt. |
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Shore Ecology
of the Gulf of Mexico
BY JOSEPH C BRITTON AND BRIAN MORTON
University of Texas Press, Austin
Contents
Preface vii
PART 1 Introduction 1
1 The Western Gulf of Mexico: An Introduction
to Shores and Life 3
Taxonomy: The Names of Things 4
Community Relationships 6
Shore Categories and Gulf Shore
Communities 7
Climate 12
A Survey of the Coastline 14
2 The Tidal Shore: Principles and Processes 17
Tides 17
Waves 21
Exposure Gradients 21
Zonation 21
The Molding of the Shoreline 22
Toward Gulf Shores 40
PART 2 Hard Shores 41
3 Hard Shores of the Northwestern Gulf 43
Introduction 43
Biotic Zonation on the Texas Jetties 43
Environmental Gradients and Texas Jetties 45
The Supralittoral Fringe 48
The Mid-littoral Zone 50
The Sublittoral Fringe and Sublittoral Zone 57
Gulls and Terns 69
4 The Hard Shores of Eastern Mexico 72
Introduction 72
Man-made Hard Shores 72
Natural Mainland Hard Shores 73
Toward the Tropical Hard Shores 80
A Final Perspective 88
5 Bay Hard Shores 89
Introduction 89
Bay Breakwaters 89
Pilings 90
The Oyster Community 94
Fishes 103
Pelicans, Cormorants and the Oyster
Catcher 103
A Perspective on Oysters 104
PART 3 Soft Shores 107
6 Gulf Beaches and Barrier Islands 109
Introduction 109
Sands, Spits and Barrier Islands 109
The Foreshore: Intertidal' Sand 115
The Strand Line 122
The Backshore 128
The Upper Shore 132
The Sandy Gulf Beaches of Yucatan 142
Sargent Beach 147
Toward Bayshores 151
7 Texas Primary Bays 158
Introduction 158
Physical Features of Texas Estuaries 158
Estuarine Life 164
Bayshore Vegetation 164
Fauna of the Bayshores 169
Biota of the Subtidal Grassbeds 184
Unvegetated Subtidal Bayfloors 189
Bay Macroplankton 195
Bay Fishes and Cephalopods 197
The Harvestfish 202
8 Secondary Bays, Lower Salinity Marshlands
and Hypersaline Lagoons 203
Introduction 203
Salinity Profile of a Typical Estuary 204
Texas Secondary Bays 207
Coastal Marshlands 211
Hypersaline Lagoons 214
9 Mangrove Shores 222
Introduction 222
The Plants 223
The Texas Mangal 226
Mangroves of Central Mexico Shores 231
Northern Yucatan Mangroves 235
Mangroves in Perspective 240
vi Contents
PART 4 Subtidal Sands, Banks and Coral Reefs 241
10 Subtidal Sands and Banks 243
Introduction 243
Texas Offshore Sands 244
The Offshore Fauna of Yucatan 264
Offshore Banks of the Northwestern Gulf 267
11 Coral Communities of the Western Gulf
of Mexico 274
Introduction 274
Reefs of the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico 279
Nearshore Reefs of Central Mexico 286
Yucatan Offshore Reefs and Banks 314
Toward the Caribbean 315
PART 5 The Future 317
12 The Future for Gulf Shores 319
Introduction 319
The Changing/Evolving Shore 319
The Human Influence 321
The Human Legacy 326
Conservation 326
Epilogue 328
Glossary 331
A Taxonomic Guide 341
Literature 355
Index 377 |
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