[NO COPY OF PAPER AVAILABLE. ABSTRACT FROM SCHMIDT (1991).] This report 
provides an inventory of important ecological resources along the Gulf coast, including 
the Everglades National Park. It is intended to provide government and industry 
decision-makers with ecological information to assist them in the determination of 
impacts from the coastal sitings of oil- and energy-related facilities. Major goals of the 
inventory include review and analysis of coastal fish and wildlife data and habitats, 
development of data formats compatible with 1:250,000 mapping scale, and the 
preparation of a report narrative keyed to resource inventory graphics. Ecological 
resources are summarized by geographic zone and descriptions and locations of species 
with special status and species of high commercial, recreational and aesthetic value are 
included. 
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DeFelice, D. R. (1982) Applicability of the r-selection concept to modern diatom 
communities. Geol. Soc. Amer. Abs. . 14(7):473. 
[ABSTRACT ONLY. DATE OF SAMPLING UNKNOWN OR NOT APPLICABLE.] Analysis of 
diatomaceous sediments from two widely separated and different environments 
indicates that the concept of r selection may be applied to diatom communities. Diatom 
populations sampled from the shallow benthic environment of Florida Bay (biacoenose) 
and from the deep sea planktic environment of the southeast Atlantic (thanatocoenose) 
share similarities in diversity and ecologic succession that conform strongly to the 
hypothetical r and K selectors defined by MacArthur and Wilson. Diversity in both areas 
is strongly regulated by the stability and predictability of the environment. Low 
diversity assemblages in Florida Bay and the southeast Atlantic are almost 
monospecific and involve periodic recolonization. Cocconeis placentula occurs in 
insignificant numbers on the sediment substrate in Florida Bay but is ubiquitous on the 
grass blades of Thalassia testudinum whose short residence time on the plant makes the 
substrate ephemeral, unstable and unpredictable. Although Nitzschia kerguelensis forms 
a major portion of the diatom assemblage in the diatom ooze belt between the Polar 
Front and northern sea ice boundary, it is overwhelmingly dominant in the portion of 
the Weddell Basin affected by fluctuating ice conditions. It acts as an epontic species 
within the sea ice, recolonizing the open ocean in the summer following sea ice 
recession. Both species explode into an ecologic vacuum following a strategy defined 
for r selectors of producing as many progeny as possible into an environment with 
minimal competition. Production is regulated solely by maximum intrinsic rate of 
natural increase (r max). 
1982 0 
Caughey, M. E. (1982) A study of the dissolved organic matter in the pore waters of 
carbonate-rich sediment cores from Florida Bay. M. S. Thesis. University of Texas at 
Dallas, Richardson, TX. 69 pp. 
[DATE OF SAMPLING UNKNOWN OR NOT APPLICABLE.] Interstitial fluids extracted from 
segments of cores collected from mudbanks and islands in Florida Bay were analyzed to 
determine the types and amounts of dissolved free and combined amino acids present. 
Both protein and nonprotein amino acids were found in concentrations as high as 263 |iM 
for free, and up to 353 ^M for the total following acid hydrolysis. The five most 
abundant amino acids, both in the free and combined forms, were glutamic acid, alanine, 
aspartic acid, serine and glycine. The total concentration of glutamic acid usually 
exceeds that of aspartic acid, in contrast with many other types of sedimentary 
organic matter. The ratio of total aspartic acid to total serine in the pore waters of the 
upper core segments tended to be less than one at stations located in central areas of 
the Bay, but greater than one at stations nearer the Keys and the mainland. The total 
hydrolysate amino acid concentration in the uppermost segment pore waters generally 
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