B and C are taxonom : 

 spectively. Tabular sl' 

 D (invertebrate collect 

 contents) . 



2. Taxonomic S: 



and fish, re- 

 L' provided in Appendixes 

 ions) , and F (fish stomach 



Soil infaun;. 

 chaetes and sev: 

 chironomid larva 

 silt, and sedge} 

 abundant in the 

 fauna. Certain 

 Isopoda, and th<: 

 epi fauna 1 forms 

 Another amphipot 

 and on vegetati^ 

 marshes was C. 6y: ,/ 

 estuarine tidal fla 

 fleets the fact ^' 

 prograding marsr 



The fauna of Ic 

 densities of Acarina i' 

 abundant only in the hi 

 in both low and high mar sue 

 was abundant only in the lo- 

 eluded four families of Col: 

 Coleoptera. Aphiilidae (Horn; 

 habited some of the 



s dominated by oligo- 

 Ceratopogonid and 

 ■ I the low marshes (sand, 

 id larvae were most 

 1 more diverse dipterous 

 hes samples--Acarina, 

 ■us and Orchestia--a.Te 

 •face by the corer. 

 iibes both in the substrate 

 dominant species in the 

 r~imal common in muddy 

 lOw silt marsh re- 

 ear the edge of a 

 i-t. 



samples) included high 

 Collembola were 

 ; and Homoptera occurred 



.opoQ,, 'Morimosphaevoma lutea, 

 :sh. The high marsh fauna in- 

 of Homoptera, and eight of 

 imnebiidae (Coleoptera) in- 



The invertebrat 

 trial sweep net was 

 Acarina, Homoptera, D^p 

 in all marshes (Fig. 5) 

 dominant ly saldids, and m 

 although these were not abi" 

 varied among raarshe- 

 The dipterous fauna 

 the low number of t 

 poor vegetation covv 



The fauna of the loi 

 of Acarina, Collembola, /uup 

 (Fig. 6). This fauna diffe 

 tation and high vegetation ' 

 although Acarina and limneb 

 habitats. Collembola (mostly i 

 line, but absent from both high 

 dipterans were most' 

 and ceratopogonids 

 high vegetation. 



ation sampled by terres- 

 five marshes in that 

 moptera were abundant 

 jvvT marshes were pre- 

 ;irids and pentostomids, 

 it ion of the Homoptera 

 enerally abundant, 

 the high marshes; 

 :^ly relates to the 

 saltgrass. 



ine was composed chiefly 

 jc^hestia tvaskiana) , and Aranae 

 : from the fauna of the low vege- 

 ow sand level marsh, 

 ibundant in all three 

 :.otJiuiJs) were abundant in the debris 

 and low vegetation. Debris line 



ted with chironomids 

 ind muscids in the 



