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Distribution and Abundance of Fishes and Invertebrates in West Coast Estuaries, Volume II: Species Life Histories Summaries
Author(s): Emmett, R.L., S.L. Stone, S.A. Hinton, and M.E. Monaco
NCCOS Center: CCMA
Center Team: Biogeography
Medium Designator: Technical Report
Name of Publisher: Strategic Environmental Assessments Division, Office of Ocean Resources Conservation and Assessment, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Place of Publication: Rockville, MD
Publication Type: Abstract
Date of Publication: 1991
Reference Information:
Extent of Work: US west coast estuaries
Abstract: Introduction. information on the spatial and temporal distributions,
relative abundance, and life history characteristics of
47 fish and invertebrate species in 32 estuaries along
the contiguous west coast of the U.S. Information
· presented in this volume focuses on species life history
summaries which were written to identify the critical life
history characteristics that help define a species'
occurrence in estuaries. These summaries were
developed to complement data presented in Distribution
and abundance of fishes and invertebrates in west
coast estuaries, Volume 1: Data summaries(Monaco et
al. 1990}, hereafter referred to as Volume /. The life
history summaries are not a complete treatise on each
species; however, they provide a concise account of
the most important physical and biological factors
known to influence a species' occurrence.
This report is a product of the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA} Estuarine Living
Marine Resources(ELMR} program (inside front cover},
a joint study of the National Ocean Service (NOS},
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS}, and other
research institutions. The objective of the ELMR
program is to develop a consistent data base on the
distribution, abundance, and life history characteristics
of important fishes and invertebrates in the Nation's
estuaries. The nationwide data base is divided into five
study regions (Figure 1}. This data base contains the
relative abundance and monthly occurrence of each
species' life stage by estuary for three salinity zones
(seawater, mixing, and tidal fresh zones} identified in
NOAA's National Estuarine Inventory (NEI) Data Atlas
- Volume I (NOAA 1985}. The Nationwide data base
contains information for approximately 135 fish and
invertebrate species in 122 U.S. estuaries.
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