Contents 



Preface i v 



Introduction 1 



Rationale 2 



Base ELMR Data Collection 2 



Selection of estuaries 3 



Selection of species 3 



Data sheet development 5 



Life History Summaries and Tables 11 



Life History Summaries 1 1 



Life History Tables 11 



Regional Results 15 



Data summaries 15 



Regional presence/absence of ELMR species 15 



North Atlantic Region 15 



Mid- Atlantic Region 21 



Southeast Region 27 



Gulf of Mexico Region 33 



West Coast Region 40 



Data Content and Quality 46 



Data reliability 46 



Variability in space and time 46 



Base ELMR Strengths and Weaknesses 46 



Revising and Updating the ELMR Data Base 47 



Data preparation 47 



Data transformation 48 



Gulf of Mexico: Texas case example 48 



Update of Massachusetts ELMR data 51 



ELMR Applications 53 



The Future 55 



Acknowledgments 56 



Literature Cited 57 



