I. Introduction. - Ecology: A Science and a Religion. - II. Primary Production and Export Processes. - Production and Export of Sea Grasses from a Tropical Bay. - Interactions Between Georgia Salt Marshes and Coastal Waters: A Changing Paradigm. - Ecological Considerations of Detrital Aggregates in the Salt Marsh. - Factors Controlling the Flux of Particulate Organic Carbon from Estuarine Wetlands. - III. Energy Transfer and Trophic Relationships. - Effects of Surface Composition Water Column Chemistry and Time of Exposure on the Composition of the Detrital Microflora and Associated Macrofauna in Apalachicola Bay Florida. - Deposit-Feeders Their Resources and the Study of Resource Limitation. - Cyclic Trophic Relationships of Fishes in an Unpolluted River-Dominated Estuary in North Florida. - Secondary Production Mechanisms of Continental Shelf Communities. - IV. Benthic Community Organization. - Perspectives of Marine Meiofaunal Ecology. - Harpacticoid Copepods and Biogenic Structures: Implications for Deep-Sea Diversity Maintenance. - Predation Competitive Exclusion and Diversity in the Soft-Sediment Benthic Communities of Estuaries and Lagoons. - The Community Structure of Coral-Associated Decapod Crustaceans in Variable Environments. - V. Climatological Features and Physical/Chemical Influence on Biological Systems. - Aquatic Productivity and Water Quality at the Upland-Estuary Interface in Barataria Basin Louisiana. - Long-Term Climatological Cycles and Population Changes in a River-Dominated Estuarine System. - Climatological Control of a North Florida Coastal System and Impact Due to Upland Forestry Management. - The Pass as a Physically-Dominated Open Ecological System. - Perturbation Analysis of the New York Bight. - Ecological Significance of Fronts in the Southeastern Bering Sea. - VI. Estuarine/Shelf Interactions. - Anaerobic Benthic Microbial Processes: Changes from the Estuary to the Continental Shelf. - The Estuary/Continental Shelf as an Interactive System. - List of Contributors and Participants. - List of Reviewers. Language: English