APPENDIX A 

 QUESTIONS ASKED OF BAY SCIENTISTS 



1. What is the relative importance of macrophytes and phytoplankton in total primary production? 



2. What proportion of primary production goes through the herbivore food chain, and what pro- 

 portion through detritus? 



3. What is the role of detrital feeding in the ecosystem? 



4. Why is the estuary productive? 



5. What are critical pollution problems, and impacts? 



6. What are the main stresses on living resources (harvest, habitat, etc.)? 



7. What research is needed on the Bay system? 



8. What is the role of jellyfish and ctenophores in the system? 



9. How do seasonal variations in salinity, temperature, or other physical parameters affect the biology of 

 the system? 



10. How do shallow areas compare with the deeper open bay for primary and secondary productivity, bio- 

 logical activity, resource availability, pollution stress? 



1 1. What are the most important inputs and outputs for each compartment? What are turnover rates? 



12. What are the relative importance of physical and biological controls on population sizes and energy and 

 carbon flow rates? 



13. What controls biological population sizes? 



14. Identify critical habitat types. What are the requirements for their maintenance? 



15. What are inputs to and outputs from the system by migratory populations? 



16. How does Bay ecology vary spatially? (e.g., shallows vs. deeper waters, upper vs. lower Bay.) 



17. What are food resources, competitors, predators, and parasites for commercially harvested species? 



18. What are the greatest threats to commercial and sport fisheries, habitats, and aesthetic values of the 

 Bay? 



19. What are the greatest threats to water quality? 



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