Marine macroinvertebrate diversity of St. Catherines Island, Georgia

Title Variants

Alternative: Marine macroinvertebrates, St. Catherines

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 3367

By

Prezant, Robert S.
Toll, Ronald Bruce, 1955-
Rollins, Harold B., 1939-
Chapman, Eric J.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, NY American Museum of Natural History c2002

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Caption title.

"May 17, 2002."

St. Catherines Island is one of several barrier islands lining the coast of Georgia, USA. This island is among the least recently anthropogenically impacted of the Georgia Sea Islands, but had not previously been examined in detail for coastal invertebrate macrofauna. From 1992 through late 1998 a coastal survey was conducted that examined the diverse marine invertebrate fauna of St. Catherines Island. Salt marshes, sand flats, mid- to low-energy sand beaches, beach wood debris, tidal creeks, shallow benthos, and artificial hard substrata (including docks) were qualitatively sampled for macroinvertebrates. Over 340 species were identified. Crustaceans composed close to 40% (14% amphipods; 15% decapods), polychaetes 17.5%, and molluscs about 25% of all species recovered. These results are compared to the few other relevant studies from the United States mid-Atlantic Coast.

Subjects

Georgia , Intertidal animals , Invertebrates , Marine invertebrates , Saint Catherines Island , Seashore ecology

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.3367 2002

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0082(2002)367<0001:MMDOSC>2.0.CO;2
OCLC: 49882278