CONTENTS 

 TABLES — Continued 



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4 - Classification of sediment by kurtosis 15 



5 Water temperature, salinity, and dissolved oxygen data for the 



November-December 1979 sampling at all stations 20 



6 Water temperature, salinity, and dissolved oxygen data for the 



May 1980 sampling at all stations 21 



7 Sediment parameters for all stations for the November-December 



1979 sampling 24 



8 Sediment parameters for all stations for the May 1980 sampling .... 25 



9 Comparison of mean grain size (phi), percent silt-clay, percent 



organic carbon and percent carbonate between November 1974 and 

 November-December 1979 (Saloman, 1976) for all stations 27 



10 Comparison of mean grain size (phi), percent silt-clay, percent 



organic carbon and percent carbonate between May 1975 and May 



1980 (Saloman, 1976) for all stations 28 



11 Checklist of benthic fauna collected from the Panama City beaches. . . 34 



12 Relative number of species and percentage of total faunal composition 



over all stations for the November -Dec ember 1979 and the May 1980 

 sampling at the Panama City beaches 35 



13 Percentage composition of the dominant fauna based on numbers of 



animals cumulatively comprising 80 percent or more of the total 

 station fauna for all stations for the November 1974 and November- 

 December 1979 sampling periods 36 



14 Percentage composition of the dominant fauna based on numbers of 



animals cumulatively comprising 80 percent or more of the total 

 station fauna for control sites CA and CB for the 1974-75, 1979-80 

 studies, and the borrow sites Bl and B2 for the 1979-80 study .... 37 



15 Percentage composition of the dominant fauna based on numbers of 



animals comprising 80 percent or more of the total station fauna 



for all stations for the May 1975 and 1980 sampling periods ..... 38 



16 Comparison of species richness (number of species) between November 



1974 and November-December 1979 for all stations 39 



17 Comparison of species richness (number of species) between May 1975 



and May 1980 for all stations 39 



18 Comparison of faunal density (number of organisms per square meter) 



between November 1974 and November-December 1979 for all stations . . 4] 



