PREFACE 



This report is published to provide coastal engineers with a comprehensive bibliography 

 of coastal ecology research work. The bibhography is pubUshed under the coastal ecolog\" 

 research program of the U.S. Army Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC). 



The report was compiled by Edward J. PuUen, Robert M. Yancy, Paul L. Knuston, and 

 Arthur K. Hurme, under the general supervision of R.P. Savage, Chief, Research Division. 



Comments on this pubUcation are invited. 



Approved for pubUcation in accordance with PubUc Law 166, TQ*'* Congress, approved 

 31 July 1945, as supplemented by Public Law 172, 88*^^ Congress, approved 7 November 

 1963. 



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JOHN H. COUSINS 



Colonel, Corps of Engineers 

 Commander and Director 



