SANDERS, 1960. Soft-mud communities marked by presence of few species that are 

 dominant, numerically and with regard to biomass. Mollusks and annelids perdominated. 



SHERK and CRONIN, 1970. A thorough bibliography of effects of sediments, with 

 reference to estuaries, but of broader application. Little direct information on subject 

 available. Review of entries indicates little long-range disturbance of environment as a 

 result of turbidity or sediment effect. 



SOKOLOVA, 1959. Although concerned with deepwater fauna, correlates abundance of 

 that fauna with amount of organic matter or deposit in the sediments, suggesting 

 possible (though not necessarily so) homologies in coastal areas. 



SWEDMARK, 1964. A basic review of interstitial fauna to the early sixties, an important 

 source reference. Sets stage for follow-up studies. Emphasizes substrate -faunal interrela- 

 tions, especially grain size correlations. 



THORSON, 1964. A basic reference regarding larval responses to light levels. Sensitive to 

 narrow ranges. Importance of this report lies in effects of disturbed sediments 

 (turbidity) in modifying light levels and thereby interfering with larval development or 

 spread and settling. 



TIETJEN, 1966. Although an estuarine study, important in being one of the few studies 

 failing to find correlation between size of population and sediment size. Contains, in 

 addition, a discussion of relation between organic detritus and benthic microflora. 



TRAVALLION, ANSELL, SIVADAS, and NARAYANAN, 1970. A comprehensive 

 account of beach ecology, complete with summaries and bibliography as well as with 

 zonation schemes, community relation studies, and zoogeographic comparisons- 

 pointing out similarities between faunas of widely separated beach areas, within zones. 



WARREN, 1971. A text of basic value to management ecologists and biologists in general. 

 Although designed for water pollution biologists, its value should be appreciated far 

 more widely. Applicable to any work associated with environment modification and 

 man-oriented usage planning. 



WEBB, 1969. Excellent and unique discussion of the effects of grain orientation, and 

 effects of porosity and drainage for Amphioxus and many interstitial animals. 

 Permeability, compaction, and capillary space listed also as important factors. 



WEBB and THEODORE, 1968. Irrigation of submerged sands may be an important source 

 of nutrients and correlated with productivity of benthic communities. 



WEILER and MILLS, 1965. A discussion of surface properties and pore structure of 

 substrate including a new method of determination worthy of consideration in attempts 

 to standardize procedures. May be relatable to niches and other ecological aspects. 



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