problems of human, industrial, and atomic 

 waste disposal in estuarine environments. 

 References that appear to have nothing to 

 do with ecology--for example, gear and tech- 

 niques--were included because of their pos- 

 sible value to field ecologists. 



Area 



Although the title indicates the eastern 

 United States, it seemed logically impossible 

 to separate the Bay of Fundy, Canada, from 

 the Gulf of Maine. The sameistrueof Florida's 

 east and west coasts. Thus I have defined the 

 area as extending from the Bay of Fundy south 

 to the Florida Keys. References dealing with 

 areas other than these were, inmost instances, 

 rejected. 



Time 



Originally the bibliography was to span the 

 years 1900 to 1960, with some flexibility to 

 select papers published before 1900. I have, 

 however, taken full advantage of machine in- 

 dexing applications and have added many other 

 papers, both early and recent. 



SOURCES, LITERATURE CITATIONS, 

 AND SYMBOLS 



For the most part the bibliography com- 

 prises published materials only. Unpublished 

 references have not been included unless they 

 pertain to other bibliographies, taxonomic 

 lists, and the like. More than 450 sources are 

 represented in the bibliography.^ Foreign 

 journals, incidentally, were not searched ex- 

 cept to verify material found in collected- 

 reprints series and in other bibliographies.^ 

 All entries have been verified by reference 

 to the original document. 



All serial titles and other publication sources 

 have been abbreviated in accordance with the 

 World List of Periodicals for Aquatic Sciences 

 and Fish eries (FAQ. 1962) and World List~of 

 Scientific Periodicals (1952). Sources not found 

 in these lists are abbreviated in accordance 

 with the International Code for the Abbrevia- 

 tion of Titles of Periodicals , (ISO. 1954). 



The IBM printer used in preparing the 

 bibliography has a restricted set of typo- 

 graphic characters. The following set of 

 symbols have been used in lieu of missing 

 characters and for other purposes: 



^ A list of all sources and journals searched is on file 

 at the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Biological Lab- 

 oratory, Woods Hole, Mass. 



2 See Hedgepeth (1957) for review of some important 

 foreign contributions to the ecology of estuaries and see 

 also Supplimento Oceanographla e Llmnologica, vol. U, 

 p. 1-248, 1959, which discusses problems of brackish 

 water classification. 



Symbol Definitions 



= Precedes generic names (in lieu of 



italics). 

 .// Indicates end of title when additional 



keywords have been added. (The 

 additional keywords follow the 

 virgules.) 

 .= Indicates end of title without addi- 



tional keywords. 

 .* Colon. 



,, Quotation mark. 



$. Question mark. 



., Semicolon, 



/, Exclamation mark. 



Apostrophe. 



Titles originally in languages other than 

 English are indicated by standard language 

 symbols following their titles. An asterisk 

 following a language symbol indicates a sum- 

 mary, abstract, or synopsis in the language. 

 Foreign language symbols used with some 

 entries follow the same style used by FAO, 

 Current Bibliography for Aquatic Science and 

 Fisheries. 



ORGANIZATION OF BIBLIOGRAPHY WITH 

 KWIC INDEX 



The bibliography consists of two parts: 



(1) Bibliographic Entries - complete bib- 



liographic entries listed alphabeti- 

 cally and chronologically by authors. 



(2) Keyword- in- Context (KWIC) Index - 



significant words in titles and perti- 

 nent words I have appended. 



The use of the bibliography is best illus- 

 trated by scanning the KWIC index for a 

 particular subject, say the reactions of oyster 

 larvae to currents. We would now scan the 

 KWIC Index and find pertinent references 

 under: REACTIONS, OYSTER, LARVAE, CUR- 

 RENTS, and in many instances, the generic 

 terms OSTREA and CRASSOSTREA. Once our 

 attention is focused upon a word, we will find 

 other words from the title or added terms 

 "wrapped around" the keyword. Each of the 

 key terms is also related to an accession 

 number, found at the right-hand margin that 

 identifies the complete bibliographic entry. 

 Geographic locations such as Bay of Fundy, 

 Gulf of Maine, North Carolina, etc., are listed 

 under specific names of: Fundy, Bay of ; Maine, 

 Gulf of; Carolina, North, etc. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



The Aquatic Sciences Information and Re- 

 trieval Center, University of Rhode Island, was 

 employed to process the references and make 



