FIGURES (continued) 



Number Page 



A-1 Age-dependent annual production of soft tissue, shell 



organics, gonad output, and respiration in an oyster .... 95 

 A-2 Seasonal variation in water temperature affecting oyster 



reefs in South Carolina 95 



A-3 Seasonal changes in size -frequency distribution of reef 



oysters in Georgia 99 



A-4 Seasonal changes in intertidal oyster size -frequency 



distribution in South Carolina 100 



A-5 Reef oyster height frequency relationship and cumulative 



biomass curves 102 



A-6 Schematic representation of percentage distribution of 



potential food expressed in kilocalories for 1-year period 



in 1 m^ of subtidal Crassostrea gigas population 104 



TABLES 



Number Page 



1 General effects of man-induced (cultural) stress on 



oysters 29 



2 Pounds of meat and ex-vessel value (dollars) of oysters 

 harvested in four South Atlantic States from 1973-1975 . . 33 



3 Macrofauna found in Georgia oyster reefs 43 



4 Mean annual frequency distribution of reef macrofauna . . 45 



5 Ranked biomass of 16 major oyster species or groups of 

 species and proportion of total macrofaunal biomass ... 45 



6 Ranking of macrofaunal metabolic dominance based on 



biomass 51 



7 Community respiration in aquatic systems 54 



8 Time scales relating ecosystem processes and components at 

 the three conceptual levels of oyster reef organization 



and function 70 



A-1 Conversion factors for oyster biomass units (intertidal 



oysters) 98 



A-2 Comparison of two sets of oyster reef energy parameters 



collected within the study area 103 



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