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Volume 54
An Imprint of Elsevier Science ISSN 0272-7714
Copyright 2002, by Elsevier Science Ltd. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED No part of this volume may be reproduced in any form, by photostat, microfilm, or any other means, without prior permission from the publishers.
Printed in Great Britain
Contents of Volume 54 NUMBER 1
JANUARY 2002
D. Pont, J.-P. Simonnet and A. V. Walter Medium-term Changes in Suspended Sediment Delivery to the Ocean: Consequences of Catchment Heterogeneity and River Management (Rhoˆne River, France) ................1 T. Fujiwara, T. Takahashi, A. Kasai, Y. Sugiyama and M. Kuno The Role of Circulation in the Development of Hypoxia in Ise Bay, Japan .....................................................................................................................19 J. Overnell Manganese and Iron Profiles During Early Diagenesis in Loch Etive, Scotland. Application of two Diagenetic Models .......................................................................................................................................................33 H. J. Black, M. Dainat, M. Ko¨ster and L.-A. Meyer-Reil A Multiple Corer for Taking Virtually Undisturbed Samples from Shallow Water Sediments ...................................................................................................45 J. F. E. Jackson and A. J. Elliott Internal Waves in the Clyde Sea........................................................................51 B. Rasmussen and A. B. Josefson Consistent Estimates for the Residence Time of Micro-tidal Estuaries .....65 L. Balas and E. O } zhan Three-dimensional Modelling of Stratified Coastal Waters................................................75 R.-S. Tseng On the Dispersion and Diffusion Near Estuaries and Around Islands ..................................................89 M. Ruiz-Villarreal, P. Montero, J. J. Taboada, R. Prego, P. C. Leita˜o and V. Pe´rez-Villar Hydrodynamic Model Study of the Ria de Pontevedra Under Estuarine Conditions ..............................................101 D. Masson Deep Water Renewal in the Strait of Georgia .........................................................................................115 L. Kamp-Nielsen, J. E. Vermaat, I. Wesseling, J. Borum and O. Geertz-Hansen Sediment Properties along Gradients of Siltation in South-east Asia .........................................................................................127
NUMBER 2
FEBRUARY 2002
T. V. Narasimha Rao Spatial Distribution of Upwelling off the Central East Coast of India....................141 L. Carrillo, M. F. Lavı´ n and E. Palacios-Herna´ndez Seasonal Evolution of the Geostrophic Circulation in the Northern Gulf of California......................................................................................................157 K. W. Hess Spatial Interpolation of Tidal Data in Irregularly-shaped Coastal Regions by Numerical Solution of Laplace’s Equation ..............................................................................................................................175 A. Barletta-Bergan, M. Barletta and U. Saint-Paul Structure and Seasonal Dynamics of Larval Fish in the Caete´ River Estuary in North Brazil ...................................................................................................193 L. Sa´nchez-Velasco, J. E. Valdez-Holguı´ n, B. Shirasago, M. A. Cisneros-Mata and A. Zarate Changes in the Spawning Environment of Sardinops caeruleus in the Gulf of California during El Nin˜o 1997–1998................................................................................................................................................................207 F. S. MacCord and L. F. L. Duarte Dispersion in Populations of Tropiometra carinata (Crinoidea: Comatulida) in the Sa˜o Sebastia˜o Channel, Sa˜o Paulo State, Brazil...............................................................219 J. S. Roitz, A. R. Flegal and K. W. Bruland The Biogeochemical Cycling of Manganese in San Francisco Bay: Temporal and Spatial Variations in Surface Water Concentrations................................227 G. Abril, M. Nogueira, H. Etcheber, G. Cabec¸adas, E. Lemaire and M. J. Brogueira Behaviour of Organic Carbon in Nine Contrasting European Estuaries ...........................................................241 C. J. Brown, K. M. Cooper, W. J. Meadows, D. S. Limpenny and H. L. Rees Small-scale Mapping of Sea-bed Assemblages in the Eastern English Channel Using Sidescan Sonar and Remote Sampling Techniques ..............................................................................................................................................263
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MARCH 2002
European River Ocean Systems (EROS-21): Interactions between the Danube and the North-western Black Sea Christiane Lancelot and Jean-Marie Martin (guest editors) Introduction C. Lancelot, J.-M. Martin, M. Panin and Y. Zaitsev The North-western Black Sea: A Pilot Site to Understand the Complex Interaction Between Human Activities and the Coastal Environment ............279 Part I. Eutrophication J. Garnier, G. Billen, E. Hannon, S. Fonbonne, Y. Videnina and M. Soulie Modelling the Transfer and Retention of Nutrients in the Drainage Network of the Danube River .....................................285 V. Barale, P. Cipollini, A. Davidov and F. Melin Water Constituents in the NW Black Sea from Optical Remote Sensing and In situ Data ............................................................................................................309 O. Ragueneau, C. Lancelot, V. Egorov, J. Vervlimmeren, A. Cociasu, G. De´liat, A. Krastev, N. Daoud, V. Rousseau, V. Popovitchev, N. Brion, L. Popa and G. Cauwet Biogeochemical Transformations of Inorganic Nutrients in the Mixing Zone between the Danube River and the North-western Black Sea ........................................................................................................................................321 S. Becquevort, T. Bouvier, C. Lancelot, G. Cauwet, G. Deliat, V. N. Egorov and V. N. Popovichev The Seasonal Modulation of Organic Matter Utilization by Bacteria in the Danube–Black Sea Mixing Zone ...........................................................................................................................337 A. Saliot, S. Derieux, N. Sadouni, I. Bouloubassi, J. Fillaux, J. Dagaut, A. Momzikoff, G. Gondry, C. Guillou, O. Breas, G. Cauwet and G. Deliat Winter and Spring Characterization of Particulate and Dissolved Organic Matter in the Danube–Black Sea Mixing Zone ..................................355 J. Friedrich, C. Dinkel, G. Friedl, N. Pimenov, J. Wijsman, M.-T. Gomoiu, A. Cociasu, L. Popa and B. Wehrli Benthic Nutrient Cycling and Diagenetic Pathways in the North-western Black Sea ..................................................................................................................................................................369 A. Lein, N. Pimenov, C. Guillou, J.-M. Martin, C. Lancelot, I. Rusanov, S. Yusupov, Yu. Miller and M. Ivanov Seasonal Dynamics of the Sulphate Reduction Rate on the North-western Black Sea Shelf ........................................................................................................................................................385 J. W. M. Wijsman, P. M. J. Herman, J. J. Middelburg and K. Soetaert A Model for Early Diagenetic Processes in Sediments of the Continental Shelf of the Black Sea..............................................403 T. Weisse, M.-T. Gomoiu, U. Scheffel and F. Brodrecht Biomass and Size Composition of the Comb Jelly Mnemiopsis sp. in the North-western Black Sea During Spring 1997 and Summer 1995 .....423 A. C. Gucu Can Overfishing be Responsible for the Successful Establishment of Mnemiopsis leidyi in the Black Sea? .....................................................................................................................................................439 J. M. Beckers, M. Gregoire, J. C. J. Nihoul, E. Stanev, J. Staneva and C. Lancelot Modelling the Danube-influenced North-western Continental Shelf of the Black Sea. I: Hydrodynamical Processes Simulated by 3-D and Box Models ....................................................................................................453 C. Lancelot, J. Staneva, D. Van Eeckhout, J.-M. Beckers and E. Stanev Modelling the Danube-influenced North-western Continental Shelf of the Black Sea. II: Ecosystem Response to Changes in Nutrient Delivery by the Danube River after its Damming in 1972 .............................................473 Part II. Pollution C. Guieu and J. M. Martin The Level and Fate of Metals in the Danube River Plume ...........................501 D. Secrieru and A. Secrieru Heavy Metal Enrichment of Man-made Origin of Superficial Sediment on the Continental Shelf of the North-western Black Sea ................................................................................513
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C. Maldonado and J. M. Bayona Organochlorine Compounds in the North-western Black Sea Water: Distribution and Water Column Process ..................................................................................................527 S. B. Gulin, G. G. Polikarpov, V. N. Egorov, J. M. Martin, A. A. Korotkov and N. A. Stokozov Radioactive Contamination of the North-western Black Sea Sediments..........................541 Part III. Sedimentation N. Panin and D. Jipa Danube River Sediment Input and its Interaction with the North-western Black Sea ..................................................................................................................................................................551 S. Reschke, V. Ittekkot and N. Panin The Nature of Organic Matter in the Danube River Particles and North-western Black Sea Sediments.............................................................................................................563 Part IV. Biogases D. Amouroux, G. Roberts, S. Rapsomanikis and M. O. Andreae Biogenic Gas (CH4, N2O, DMS) Emission to the Atmosphere from Near-shore and Shelf Waters of the North-western Black Sea .............575 M. V. Ivanov, N. V. Pimenov, I. I. Rusanov and A. Yu. Lein Microbial Processes of the Methane Cycle at the North-western Shelf of the Black Sea ............................................................................................589 E. V. Stanev, J. M. Beckers, C. Lancelot, J. V. Staneva, P. Y. Le Traon, E. L. Peneva and M. Gregoire Coastal–open Ocean Exchange in the Black Sea: Observations and Modelling ...................601 E. O } zsoy, D. Rank and I. Salihog˘ lu Pycnocline and Deep Mixing in the Black Sea: Stable Isotope and Transient Tracer Measurements......................................................................................................................621 E. M. Galimov, L. A. Kodina, L. I. Zhiltsova, V. G. Tokarev, L. N. Vlasova, M. P. Bogacheva, G. S. Korobeinik and T. I. Vaisman Organic Carbon Geochemistry in the North-western Black Sea– Danube River System ..............................................................................................................................................631
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APRIL 2002
W. H. McAnally and A. J. Mehta Significance of Aggregation of Fine Sediment Particles in Their Deposition.................................................................................................................................................................643 R. Brinkman, E. Wolanski, E. Deleersnijder, F. McAllister and W. Skirving Oceanic inflow from the Coral Sea into the Great Barrier Reef....................................................................................................655 L. M. Mulkins, D. E. Jelinski, J. D. Karagatzides and A. Carr Carbon Isotope Composition of Mysids at a Terrestrial-Marine Ecotone, Clayoquot Sound, British Columbia, Canada.................................669 G. J. Brunskill, I. Zagorskis and J. Pfitzner Carbon Burial Rates in Sediments and a Carbon Mass Balance for the Herbert River Region of the Great Barrier Reef Continental Shelf, North Queensland, Australia.....................................................................................................................................................................677 A. C. Sigleo and S. A. Macko Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopes in Suspended Particles and Colloids, Chesapeake and San Francisco Estuaries, U.S.A. ...............................................................................................701 S. C. Neubauer, I. C. Anderson, J. A. Constantine and S. A. Kuehl Sediment Deposition and Accretion in a Mid-Atlantic (U.S.A.) Tidal Freshwater Marsh ..........................................................................713 P. Laffaille, E. Feunteun, C. Lefebvre, A. Radureau, G. Sagan and J.-C. Lefeuvre Can Thin-lipped Mullet Directly Exploit the Primary and Detritic Production of European Macrotidal Salt Marshes? ...................................................................................................................................................................729 T. J. Andersen and M. Pejrup Biological Mediation of the Settling Velocity of Bed Material Eroded from an Intertidal Mudflat, the Danish Wadden Sea ..........................................................................................737 L. G. Alvarez and S. E. Jones Factors Influencing Suspended Sediment Flux in the Upper Gulf of California ...................................................................................................................................................................747
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O. M. Pe´rez, T. C. Telfer, M. C. M. Beveridge and L. G. Ross Geographical Information Systems (GIS) as a Simple Tool to Aid Modelling of Particulate Waste Distribution at Marine Fish Cage Sites ....761 Book Reviews........................................................................................................................................................769
NUMBER 5
MAY 2002
C. Facca, A. Sfriso and G. Socal Changes in Abundance and Composition of Phytoplankton and Microphytobenthos due to Increased Sediment Fluxes in the Venice Lagoon, Italy ....................................773 M. A. Morrison, M. P. Francis, B. W. Hartill and D. M. Parkinson Diurnal and Tidal Variation in the Abundance of the Fish Fauna of a Temperate Tidal Mudflat ...............................................................793 R. Peria´n˜ez The Enhancement of 226Ra in a Tidal Estuary due to the Operation of Fertilizer Factories and Redissolution from Sediments: Experimental Results and a Modelling Study ........................................809 G. E. Millward, T. K. Sands, M. Nimmo, A. Turner and A. D. Tappin Nickel in the Humber Plume: Influences of Particle Dynamics and Reactivity ....................................................................................821 V. G. Koutitonsky, N. Navarro and D. Booth Descriptive Physical Oceanography of Great-Entry Lagoon, Gulf of St. Lawrence ................................................................................................................................833 G. Mancinelli and L. Rossi The Influence of Allochthonous Leaf Detritus on the Occurrence of Crustacean Detritivores in the Soft-bottom Macrobenthos of the Po River Delta Area (northwestern Adriatic Sea) ............................................................................................................................................................849 A. Cearreta, M. J. Irabien, I. Ulibarri, I. Yusta, I. W. Croudace and A. B. Cundy Recent Salt Marsh Development and Natural Regeneration of Reclaimed Areas in the Plentzia Estuary, N. Spain .....863 J.-J. Hung and F. Kuo Temporal Variability of Carbon and Nutrient Budgets from a Tropical Lagoon in Chiku, Southwestern Taiwan ..............................................................................................................887 S. Bouillon, A. V. Raman, P. Dauby and F. Dehairs Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotope Ratios of Subtidal Benthic Invertebrates in an Estuarine Mangrove Ecosystem (Andhra Pradesh, India) .............901 V. Nikora, D. Goring and A. Ross The Structure and Dynamics of the Thin Near bed Layer in a Complex Marine Environment: A Case Study in Beatrix Bay, New Zealand...................................................915
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JUNE 2002
R. J. Gowen, D. J. Hydes, D. K. Mills, B. M. Stewart, J. Brown, C. E. Gibson, T. M. Shammon, M. Allen and S. J. Malcolm Assessing Trends in Nutrient Concentrations in Coastal Shelf Seas: a Case Study in the Irish Sea .............................................................................................927 M. Power and M. J. Attrill Factors Affecting Long-term Trends in the Estuarine Abundance of Pogge (Agonus cataphractus)...............................................................................................................................941 D. B. Nedwell, L. F. Dong, A. Sage and G. J. C. Underwood Variations of the Nutrients Loads to the Mainland U.K. Estuaries: Correlation with Catchment Areas, Urbanization and Coastal Eutrophication ..........................................................................................................................................................951 M. Manca Zeichen, S. Agnesi, A. Mariani, A. Maccaroni and G. D. Ardizzone Biology and Population Dynamics of Donax trunculus L. (Bivalvia: Donacidae) in the South Adreiatic Coast (Italy) 971 S. Cannicci, M. Gomei, B. Boddi and M. Vannini Feeding Habits and Natural Diet of the Intertidal Crab Pachygrapsus marmoratus: Opportunistic Browser or Selective Feeder? ..............................983 R. D. DeLaune, I. Devai and C. W. Lindau Flux of Reduced Sulfur Gases Along a Salinity Gradient in Louisiana Coastal Marshes ..............................................................................................................1003
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C. Oviatt, A. Keller and L. Reed Annual Primary Production in Narragansett Bay with no Bay-Wide Winter–Spring Phytoplankton Bloom...............................................................................................1013 L. Frankowski, J. Bolałek and A. Szostek Phosphorus in Bottom Sediments of Pomeranian Bay (Southern Baltic—Poland).............................................................................................................................................1027 P. V. Ridd and T. Stieglitz Dry Season Salinity Changes in Arid Estuaries Fringed by mangroves and Saltflats .............................................................................................................................................................................1039 J. Zhang and C. L. Liu Riverine Composition and Estuarine Geochemistry of Particulate metals in China—Weathering Features, Anthropogenic Impact and Chemical Fluxes ...........................................................1051 Contents of Volume 54 ....................................................................................................................................................i Index to Volume 54 .........................................................................................................................................................ix
An Imprint of Elsevier Science ISSN 0272-7714
Copyright 2002, by Elsevier Science Ltd. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED No part of this volume may be reproduced in any form, by photostat, microfilm, or any other means, without prior permission from the publishers.
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Contents of Volume 54 NUMBER 1
JANUARY 2002
D. Pont, J.-P. Simonnet and A. V. Walter Medium-term Changes in Suspended Sediment Delivery to the Ocean: Consequences of Catchment Heterogeneity and River Management (Rhoˆne River, France) ................1 T. Fujiwara, T. Takahashi, A. Kasai, Y. Sugiyama and M. Kuno The Role of Circulation in the Development of Hypoxia in Ise Bay, Japan .....................................................................................................................19 J. Overnell Manganese and Iron Profiles During Early Diagenesis in Loch Etive, Scotland. Application of two Diagenetic Models .......................................................................................................................................................33 H. J. Black, M. Dainat, M. Ko¨ster and L.-A. Meyer-Reil A Multiple Corer for Taking Virtually Undisturbed Samples from Shallow Water Sediments ...................................................................................................45 J. F. E. Jackson and A. J. Elliott Internal Waves in the Clyde Sea........................................................................51 B. Rasmussen and A. B. Josefson Consistent Estimates for the Residence Time of Micro-tidal Estuaries .....65 L. Balas and E. O } zhan Three-dimensional Modelling of Stratified Coastal Waters................................................75 R.-S. Tseng On the Dispersion and Diffusion Near Estuaries and Around Islands ..................................................89 M. Ruiz-Villarreal, P. Montero, J. J. Taboada, R. Prego, P. C. Leita˜o and V. Pe´rez-Villar Hydrodynamic Model Study of the Ria de Pontevedra Under Estuarine Conditions ..............................................101 D. Masson Deep Water Renewal in the Strait of Georgia .........................................................................................115 L. Kamp-Nielsen, J. E. Vermaat, I. Wesseling, J. Borum and O. Geertz-Hansen Sediment Properties along Gradients of Siltation in South-east Asia .........................................................................................127
NUMBER 2
FEBRUARY 2002
T. V. Narasimha Rao Spatial Distribution of Upwelling off the Central East Coast of India....................141 L. Carrillo, M. F. Lavı´ n and E. Palacios-Herna´ndez Seasonal Evolution of the Geostrophic Circulation in the Northern Gulf of California......................................................................................................157 K. W. Hess Spatial Interpolation of Tidal Data in Irregularly-shaped Coastal Regions by Numerical Solution of Laplace’s Equation ..............................................................................................................................175 A. Barletta-Bergan, M. Barletta and U. Saint-Paul Structure and Seasonal Dynamics of Larval Fish in the Caete´ River Estuary in North Brazil ...................................................................................................193 L. Sa´nchez-Velasco, J. E. Valdez-Holguı´ n, B. Shirasago, M. A. Cisneros-Mata and A. Zarate Changes in the Spawning Environment of Sardinops caeruleus in the Gulf of California during El Nin˜o 1997–1998................................................................................................................................................................207 F. S. MacCord and L. F. L. Duarte Dispersion in Populations of Tropiometra carinata (Crinoidea: Comatulida) in the Sa˜o Sebastia˜o Channel, Sa˜o Paulo State, Brazil...............................................................219 J. S. Roitz, A. R. Flegal and K. W. Bruland The Biogeochemical Cycling of Manganese in San Francisco Bay: Temporal and Spatial Variations in Surface Water Concentrations................................227 G. Abril, M. Nogueira, H. Etcheber, G. Cabec¸adas, E. Lemaire and M. J. Brogueira Behaviour of Organic Carbon in Nine Contrasting European Estuaries ...........................................................241 C. J. Brown, K. M. Cooper, W. J. Meadows, D. S. Limpenny and H. L. Rees Small-scale Mapping of Sea-bed Assemblages in the Eastern English Channel Using Sidescan Sonar and Remote Sampling Techniques ..............................................................................................................................................263
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MARCH 2002
European River Ocean Systems (EROS-21): Interactions between the Danube and the North-western Black Sea Christiane Lancelot and Jean-Marie Martin (guest editors) Introduction C. Lancelot, J.-M. Martin, M. Panin and Y. Zaitsev The North-western Black Sea: A Pilot Site to Understand the Complex Interaction Between Human Activities and the Coastal Environment ............279 Part I. Eutrophication J. Garnier, G. Billen, E. Hannon, S. Fonbonne, Y. Videnina and M. Soulie Modelling the Transfer and Retention of Nutrients in the Drainage Network of the Danube River .....................................285 V. Barale, P. Cipollini, A. Davidov and F. Melin Water Constituents in the NW Black Sea from Optical Remote Sensing and In situ Data ............................................................................................................309 O. Ragueneau, C. Lancelot, V. Egorov, J. Vervlimmeren, A. Cociasu, G. De´liat, A. Krastev, N. Daoud, V. Rousseau, V. Popovitchev, N. Brion, L. Popa and G. Cauwet Biogeochemical Transformations of Inorganic Nutrients in the Mixing Zone between the Danube River and the North-western Black Sea ........................................................................................................................................321 S. Becquevort, T. Bouvier, C. Lancelot, G. Cauwet, G. Deliat, V. N. Egorov and V. N. Popovichev The Seasonal Modulation of Organic Matter Utilization by Bacteria in the Danube–Black Sea Mixing Zone ...........................................................................................................................337 A. Saliot, S. Derieux, N. Sadouni, I. Bouloubassi, J. Fillaux, J. Dagaut, A. Momzikoff, G. Gondry, C. Guillou, O. Breas, G. Cauwet and G. Deliat Winter and Spring Characterization of Particulate and Dissolved Organic Matter in the Danube–Black Sea Mixing Zone ..................................355 J. Friedrich, C. Dinkel, G. Friedl, N. Pimenov, J. Wijsman, M.-T. Gomoiu, A. Cociasu, L. Popa and B. Wehrli Benthic Nutrient Cycling and Diagenetic Pathways in the North-western Black Sea ..................................................................................................................................................................369 A. Lein, N. Pimenov, C. Guillou, J.-M. Martin, C. Lancelot, I. Rusanov, S. Yusupov, Yu. Miller and M. Ivanov Seasonal Dynamics of the Sulphate Reduction Rate on the North-western Black Sea Shelf ........................................................................................................................................................385 J. W. M. Wijsman, P. M. J. Herman, J. J. Middelburg and K. Soetaert A Model for Early Diagenetic Processes in Sediments of the Continental Shelf of the Black Sea..............................................403 T. Weisse, M.-T. Gomoiu, U. Scheffel and F. Brodrecht Biomass and Size Composition of the Comb Jelly Mnemiopsis sp. in the North-western Black Sea During Spring 1997 and Summer 1995 .....423 A. C. Gucu Can Overfishing be Responsible for the Successful Establishment of Mnemiopsis leidyi in the Black Sea? .....................................................................................................................................................439 J. M. Beckers, M. Gregoire, J. C. J. Nihoul, E. Stanev, J. Staneva and C. Lancelot Modelling the Danube-influenced North-western Continental Shelf of the Black Sea. I: Hydrodynamical Processes Simulated by 3-D and Box Models ....................................................................................................453 C. Lancelot, J. Staneva, D. Van Eeckhout, J.-M. Beckers and E. Stanev Modelling the Danube-influenced North-western Continental Shelf of the Black Sea. II: Ecosystem Response to Changes in Nutrient Delivery by the Danube River after its Damming in 1972 .............................................473 Part II. Pollution C. Guieu and J. M. Martin The Level and Fate of Metals in the Danube River Plume ...........................501 D. Secrieru and A. Secrieru Heavy Metal Enrichment of Man-made Origin of Superficial Sediment on the Continental Shelf of the North-western Black Sea ................................................................................513
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C. Maldonado and J. M. Bayona Organochlorine Compounds in the North-western Black Sea Water: Distribution and Water Column Process ..................................................................................................527 S. B. Gulin, G. G. Polikarpov, V. N. Egorov, J. M. Martin, A. A. Korotkov and N. A. Stokozov Radioactive Contamination of the North-western Black Sea Sediments..........................541 Part III. Sedimentation N. Panin and D. Jipa Danube River Sediment Input and its Interaction with the North-western Black Sea ..................................................................................................................................................................551 S. Reschke, V. Ittekkot and N. Panin The Nature of Organic Matter in the Danube River Particles and North-western Black Sea Sediments.............................................................................................................563 Part IV. Biogases D. Amouroux, G. Roberts, S. Rapsomanikis and M. O. Andreae Biogenic Gas (CH4, N2O, DMS) Emission to the Atmosphere from Near-shore and Shelf Waters of the North-western Black Sea .............575 M. V. Ivanov, N. V. Pimenov, I. I. Rusanov and A. Yu. Lein Microbial Processes of the Methane Cycle at the North-western Shelf of the Black Sea ............................................................................................589 E. V. Stanev, J. M. Beckers, C. Lancelot, J. V. Staneva, P. Y. Le Traon, E. L. Peneva and M. Gregoire Coastal–open Ocean Exchange in the Black Sea: Observations and Modelling ...................601 E. O } zsoy, D. Rank and I. Salihog˘ lu Pycnocline and Deep Mixing in the Black Sea: Stable Isotope and Transient Tracer Measurements......................................................................................................................621 E. M. Galimov, L. A. Kodina, L. I. Zhiltsova, V. G. Tokarev, L. N. Vlasova, M. P. Bogacheva, G. S. Korobeinik and T. I. Vaisman Organic Carbon Geochemistry in the North-western Black Sea– Danube River System ..............................................................................................................................................631
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APRIL 2002
W. H. McAnally and A. J. Mehta Significance of Aggregation of Fine Sediment Particles in Their Deposition.................................................................................................................................................................643 R. Brinkman, E. Wolanski, E. Deleersnijder, F. McAllister and W. Skirving Oceanic inflow from the Coral Sea into the Great Barrier Reef....................................................................................................655 L. M. Mulkins, D. E. Jelinski, J. D. Karagatzides and A. Carr Carbon Isotope Composition of Mysids at a Terrestrial-Marine Ecotone, Clayoquot Sound, British Columbia, Canada.................................669 G. J. Brunskill, I. Zagorskis and J. Pfitzner Carbon Burial Rates in Sediments and a Carbon Mass Balance for the Herbert River Region of the Great Barrier Reef Continental Shelf, North Queensland, Australia.....................................................................................................................................................................677 A. C. Sigleo and S. A. Macko Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopes in Suspended Particles and Colloids, Chesapeake and San Francisco Estuaries, U.S.A. ...............................................................................................701 S. C. Neubauer, I. C. Anderson, J. A. Constantine and S. A. Kuehl Sediment Deposition and Accretion in a Mid-Atlantic (U.S.A.) Tidal Freshwater Marsh ..........................................................................713 P. Laffaille, E. Feunteun, C. Lefebvre, A. Radureau, G. Sagan and J.-C. Lefeuvre Can Thin-lipped Mullet Directly Exploit the Primary and Detritic Production of European Macrotidal Salt Marshes? ...................................................................................................................................................................729 T. J. Andersen and M. Pejrup Biological Mediation of the Settling Velocity of Bed Material Eroded from an Intertidal Mudflat, the Danish Wadden Sea ..........................................................................................737 L. G. Alvarez and S. E. Jones Factors Influencing Suspended Sediment Flux in the Upper Gulf of California ...................................................................................................................................................................747
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O. M. Pe´rez, T. C. Telfer, M. C. M. Beveridge and L. G. Ross Geographical Information Systems (GIS) as a Simple Tool to Aid Modelling of Particulate Waste Distribution at Marine Fish Cage Sites ....761 Book Reviews........................................................................................................................................................769
NUMBER 5
MAY 2002
C. Facca, A. Sfriso and G. Socal Changes in Abundance and Composition of Phytoplankton and Microphytobenthos due to Increased Sediment Fluxes in the Venice Lagoon, Italy ....................................773 M. A. Morrison, M. P. Francis, B. W. Hartill and D. M. Parkinson Diurnal and Tidal Variation in the Abundance of the Fish Fauna of a Temperate Tidal Mudflat ...............................................................793 R. Peria´n˜ez The Enhancement of 226Ra in a Tidal Estuary due to the Operation of Fertilizer Factories and Redissolution from Sediments: Experimental Results and a Modelling Study ........................................809 G. E. Millward, T. K. Sands, M. Nimmo, A. Turner and A. D. Tappin Nickel in the Humber Plume: Influences of Particle Dynamics and Reactivity ....................................................................................821 V. G. Koutitonsky, N. Navarro and D. Booth Descriptive Physical Oceanography of Great-Entry Lagoon, Gulf of St. Lawrence ................................................................................................................................833 G. Mancinelli and L. Rossi The Influence of Allochthonous Leaf Detritus on the Occurrence of Crustacean Detritivores in the Soft-bottom Macrobenthos of the Po River Delta Area (northwestern Adriatic Sea) ............................................................................................................................................................849 A. Cearreta, M. J. Irabien, I. Ulibarri, I. Yusta, I. W. Croudace and A. B. Cundy Recent Salt Marsh Development and Natural Regeneration of Reclaimed Areas in the Plentzia Estuary, N. Spain .....863 J.-J. Hung and F. Kuo Temporal Variability of Carbon and Nutrient Budgets from a Tropical Lagoon in Chiku, Southwestern Taiwan ..............................................................................................................887 S. Bouillon, A. V. Raman, P. Dauby and F. Dehairs Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotope Ratios of Subtidal Benthic Invertebrates in an Estuarine Mangrove Ecosystem (Andhra Pradesh, India) .............901 V. Nikora, D. Goring and A. Ross The Structure and Dynamics of the Thin Near bed Layer in a Complex Marine Environment: A Case Study in Beatrix Bay, New Zealand...................................................915
NUMBER 6
JUNE 2002
R. J. Gowen, D. J. Hydes, D. K. Mills, B. M. Stewart, J. Brown, C. E. Gibson, T. M. Shammon, M. Allen and S. J. Malcolm Assessing Trends in Nutrient Concentrations in Coastal Shelf Seas: a Case Study in the Irish Sea .............................................................................................927 M. Power and M. J. Attrill Factors Affecting Long-term Trends in the Estuarine Abundance of Pogge (Agonus cataphractus)...............................................................................................................................941 D. B. Nedwell, L. F. Dong, A. Sage and G. J. C. Underwood Variations of the Nutrients Loads to the Mainland U.K. Estuaries: Correlation with Catchment Areas, Urbanization and Coastal Eutrophication ..........................................................................................................................................................951 M. Manca Zeichen, S. Agnesi, A. Mariani, A. Maccaroni and G. D. Ardizzone Biology and Population Dynamics of Donax trunculus L. (Bivalvia: Donacidae) in the South Adreiatic Coast (Italy) 971 S. Cannicci, M. Gomei, B. Boddi and M. Vannini Feeding Habits and Natural Diet of the Intertidal Crab Pachygrapsus marmoratus: Opportunistic Browser or Selective Feeder? ..............................983 R. D. DeLaune, I. Devai and C. W. Lindau Flux of Reduced Sulfur Gases Along a Salinity Gradient in Louisiana Coastal Marshes ..............................................................................................................1003
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C. Oviatt, A. Keller and L. Reed Annual Primary Production in Narragansett Bay with no Bay-Wide Winter–Spring Phytoplankton Bloom...............................................................................................1013 L. Frankowski, J. Bolałek and A. Szostek Phosphorus in Bottom Sediments of Pomeranian Bay (Southern Baltic—Poland).............................................................................................................................................1027 P. V. Ridd and T. Stieglitz Dry Season Salinity Changes in Arid Estuaries Fringed by mangroves and Saltflats .............................................................................................................................................................................1039 J. Zhang and C. L. Liu Riverine Composition and Estuarine Geochemistry of Particulate metals in China—Weathering Features, Anthropogenic Impact and Chemical Fluxes ...........................................................1051 Contents of Volume 54 ....................................................................................................................................................i Index to Volume 54 .........................................................................................................................................................ix