Michael J. Kennish and Richard, A. Lutz (Editors): Ecology of Barnegat Bay, New Jersey. = Lecture Notes on Coastal and Estuarine Studies 6.–410 pp. New York/Berlin: Springer-Verlag 1984. ISBN 0-387 (New York) 3-540 (Berlin) 90935–4. $ 37.70, DM 96,–

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• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 108 KB
• Volume: 70
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1434-2944
• DOI: 10.1002/iroh.19850700618

✦ Synopsis

As a result. of the siting and operation of the 620 megawatt Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station beside Barnegat Bay, a "hgoon-type estuary" on the East Coast of New Jersey, nearly 20 years of intensive ecological research has been conducted. The various results are reviewed in this monograph. In 14 sections by 20 authors, the physical, chemical and biological aspects are described. Section 1 deals with the physical and chemical characterist'ics of the bay in which the water circulation is restrict,ed by the barrier island, Long Bea,ch Island, approximately 65 km long. This island also effects tides, salinity and sediment deposition. There is a balance between nitrogen input into the bay, cycling by regeneration, primary production, and light penetration. Nitrogen enters the system largely as nitrate-N from the upper drainage and leaves the estuary as organic-X.

The section on the phytoplankt'on by K. MOUNTFORD includes a list of diatom and dinoflagellates