The Northeast Shelf Ecosystem: Assessment, Sustainability, and Management

Abstract

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