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The Gulf of Mexico Large Marine Ecosystem: Assessment, Sustainability, and Management
Ed. by Herb Kumpf, Karen Steidinger, and Kenneth Sherman.
Published by Blackwell Science, Inc. Malden, MA, USA.

I. Ecosystem-Level Assessment and Sustainability of Natural Resources
Chapter 1  Gulf of Mexico Program: Partnership with a Purpose; James D. Giattina and Diane T. Altsman
Chapter 2  Economic Significance of the Gulf of Mexico Related to Population, Income, Employment, Minerals, Fisheries, and Shipping; James C. Cato and Charles M. Adams Chapter 3  Modular Approach to the Monitoring and Assessment of Large Marine Ecosystems; Kenneth Sherman
Chapter 4  Inputs and Outputs of the Gulf of Mexico; R. Eugene Turner
II. Physical and Biological Characteristics of the Gulf
Chapter 5  Physical Oceanography of the Gulf of Mexico: Processes that Regulate its Biology; William J. Wiseman, Jr. and Wilton Sturges
Chapter 6  Outer Shelf and Slope Geology of the Gulf of Mexico: An Overview; Harry H. Roberts, Randolph A. McBride, and James M. Coleman
Chapter 7  Characteristics of Marine Meteorology and Climatology in the Gulf of Mexico; S. A. Hsu
Chapter 8  An Overview of the Marine Chemistry of the Gulf of Mexico; Allen M. Shiller III. Patterns of Productivity
Chapter 9  What Controls Primary Production in the Gulf of Mexico? Steven E. Lohrenz, Denis A. Wiesenburg, Robert A. Arnone, and Xiaogang Chen
Chapter 10  Overview of Continental Shelf Benthic Communities of the Gulf of Mexico; Nancy N. Rabalais, Robert S. Carney, and Elva G. Escobar-Briones
Chapter 11  Status of Exploited Fish Species in the Gulf of Mexico; Robert L. Shipp Chapter 12  Shrimp Fisheries in the South Gulf of Mexico: Present and Future Management Alternatives; Adolfo Gracia and Ana Rosa Vázquez-Bader
Chapter 13  Stock-Recruitment Relationships: A Scientific Challenge to Support Fisheries Management in the Campeche Bank, Mexico; Francisco Arreguín-Sánchez, Julio A. Sánchez, Domingo Flores-Hernández, Julia Ramos-Miranda, Patricia Sánchez-Gil, and Alejandro Yánez-Arancibia
Chapter 14  Distribution and Relative Abundance of Pelagic Seabirds of the Northern Gulf of Mexico; Dwight E. Peake
Chapter 15  Status of Sea Turtle Stocks in the Gulf of Mexico with Emphasis on the Kemp’s Ridley; Andre M. Landry, Jr. and David Costa
Chapter 16  Marine Mammals of the Northern Gulf of Mexico; Keith D. Mullin and Larry J. Hansen
Chapter 17  Toward a Stratified Mass-Balance Model of Trophic Fluxes in the Gulf of Mexico Large Marine Ecosystem; Daniel Pauly, Francisco Arreguín-Sánchez, Joan Browder, Villy Christensen, Sherry Manickchand-Heilemann, Eduardo Martinez, and Laura Vidal
IV. Assessment of Ecologic Stresses on the Gulf Ecosystem
Chapter 18  Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Linkages with the Mississippi River; Nancy N. Rabalais, R. Eugene Turner, and William J. Wiseman, Jr.
Chapter 19  Role of Nutrients in Regulating Plankton Blooms in Florida Bay; Carmelo R. Tomas, Brian Bendis, and Kevin Johns
Chapter 20  Persistent Brown Tide Bloom in Laguna Madre, Texas; Terry E. Whitledge, Dean A. Stockwell, Edward J. Buskey, Kenneth C. Dunton, G. Joan Holt, Scott A. Holt, and Paul A. Montagna
Chapter 21  Comparison of Nutrient Loadings and Fluxes into the U.S. Northeast Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem (LME) with the Gulf of Mexico and Other LMEs; Norbert A. Jaworski
Chapter 22  Oil Pollution in the Southern Gulf of Mexico; Gerardo Gold-Bouchot, Omar Zapata-Pérez, Elsa Noreña-Barroso, Miguel Herrera-Rodríguez, Víctor Ceja-Moreno, and Maricruz Zavala-Coral
V. Ecosystem Health
Chapter 23  What is a Healthy Ecosystem? Robert Costanza and Michael Mageau Chapter 24  Using Legal Principles to Promote the "Health" of the Ecosystem; Martin H. Belsky
Chapter 25  A Pollution Monitoring Module for Assessing Changing States of Large Marine Ecosystems; Andrew Robertson and Jawed Hameedi
Chapter 26  A Stress-Response Assessment of the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem; S. H. Birkett and D. J. Rapport
Chapter 27  Large Marine Ecosystem Health and Human Health; Paul R. Epstein
Chapter 28  North Sea Ecosystem: Status Report; Philip C. Reid
Chapter 29  Application of Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing for Detection and Monitoring of Marine Perturbations; Christopher A. Friel
VI. Management and Governance
Chapter 30  Management of Large Marine Ecosystems: A Law of the Sea-Based Governance Regime; Lewis M. Alexander
Chapter 31  Influence of Marine Perturbations on Marine Fisheries Stock Abundance; Peter J. Rubec
Chapter 32  Biomass, Yield Models, and Management Strategies for the Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem; Bradford E. Brown, Joan A. Browder, Joseph Powers, and Carole D. Goodyear
Chapter 33  Integrated Coastal Zone Management Plan for Terminos Lagoon, Campeche, Mexico; A. Yáñez-Arancibia, A.L. Lara-Domínguez, J.L. Rojas Galaviz, G.J. Villalobos Zapata, D.J. Zárate, and P. Sánchez-Gil
Chapter 34 Dune Vegetation and its Biodiversity Along the Gulf of Mexico, a Large Marine Ecosystem; Patricia Moreno-Casasola
Chapter 35  Freshwater Introduction and Implications for Fisheries Production in Louisiana; Philip E. Bowman, William S. Perret, and John E. Roussel
Chapter 36  Linking Integrated Coastal Management with Large Marine Ecosystems Management; Stephen Olsen
Chapter 37  Environmental Compliance and Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration and Production; Di Jin and Thomas A. Grigalunas
Chapter 38  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Ecosystem Approach to Trust Resource Management in Gulf of Mexico River Drainages; Douglas J. Frugé
Chapter 39  National Estuary Program in the Gulf of Mexico; Wesley B. Crum
Chapter 40  Florida’s Ecosystem Management Initiatives; Pamela McVety
Chapter 41  Role of the National Marine Fisheries Service in Natural Resource Management in the Gulf of Mexico Large Marine Ecosystem; Andrew Kemmerer, Georgia Cranmore, and Andreas Mager, Jr.
Chapter 42  What Do Ecosystem Management and the Current Budget Mean for Federally Supported Environmental Research? D. James Baker






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