PREFACE 



This annotated bibliography assembles published information on 

 the barrier islands along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts. The 

 bibliography was prepared at the request of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

 Service's Barrier Island Representative for technical assistance for the 

 Service and for the Interior Department's Barrier Island Working Group. 

 The purpose of this document is to compile descriptive information on the 

 physical features and the fish and wildlife resources of barrier islands. 

 This compilation provides background material for the development of a 

 Federal /State/local strategy to protect this valuable and fragile com- 

 ponent of the coastal ecosystem. 



Barrier islands are usually defined as elongate, narrow land formations, 

 composed of unconsolidated materials, and lying parallel to the shoreline. 

 Estuaries and wetlands separate the islands from the mainland and the ocean- 

 side usually has a dynamic dune and beach system. In this work, the defini- 

 tion has been expanded to include spits and mangrove barrier islands. 



The bibliography is arranged geographically by State and by island from 

 Maine to Texas. Under each island name, the entries appear alphabetically by 

 the senior author's last name. An asterisk indicates that the annotations 

 were prepared from the original article or book. In many cases., annotations 

 were prepared from abstracts. In a few cases, annotations were not available, 

 but the author and title were included because of particular relevance to the 

 study. Duplicate titles were listed when the annotation pertained to more 

 than one island or beach area. Separate author and subject indices are in- 

 cluded. 



This bibliography is a preliminary effort to serve as a basis for 

 initial investigations on coastal islands. The barrier islands and beach 

 areas mentioned in this bibliography are not all of the island and beach for- 

 mations of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, but rather those selected for 

 special consideration by Interior's Barrier Island Working Group. Also, 

 because of time constraints, it was necessary for Gulf South Research Insti- 

 tute to prepare this document during a 4-week period ending in mid-October 

 1977. Since then, some relevant articles that were unavoidably missed were 

 included in an addendum by the National Coastal Ecosystems Team's Project 

 Officer. 



Articles and books were obtained from the Louisiana State University 

 Library, the library at LSU's Center for Wetlands Resources, and the libraries 

 of Gulf South Research Institute and the National Coastal Ecosystems Team, 

 Abstracts (from which many of the annotations were prepared) were obtained by 

 computerized and manual searches. The National Coastal Ecosystems Team con- 

 ducted the computerized searches as follows: 



1. NTIS: 1964-1977 under the terms "barrier island(s)" and "coast(al) 

 island(s)," 



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