The Condition of South Carolina’s Estuarine and Coastal Habitats During 1999-2000
Below is the Table of Contents for the 1999-2000 SCECAP Report (Adobe PDF - file size 5.6MB). Adobe® Reader® is required to open this file and is available as a free download from the Adobe® Web site.
Table of Contents
Section | Page |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS | i |
LIST OF FIGURES | ii |
LIST OF TABLES | v |
1. INTRODUCTION | 1 |
2. METHODS | 3 |
2.1. Sampling Design | 3 |
2.2. Water Quality Measurements | 4 |
2.3. Biological and Sediment Sampling | 5 |
2.4. Habitat Evaluation | 7 |
2.5. Quality Assurance | 7 |
2.6. Data Analyses | 8 |
3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION | 9 |
3.1. Station Array | 9 |
3.2. Water Quality | 9 |
Temperature | 14 |
Salinity | 14 |
Dissolved Oxygen | 15 |
pH | 17 |
Nutrients | 19 |
Biochemical Oxygen Demand | 22 |
Total Organic Carbon | 22 |
Fecal Coliform Bacteria | 23 |
Turbidity | 24 |
Alkalinity | 25 |
Integrated Water Quality Measure | 25 |
3.3 Sediment Quality | 28 |
Sediment Composition | 28 |
TOC | 28 |
TAN | 29 |
Contaminants | 30 |
Toxicity | 32 |
Integrated Assessment of Sediment Quality | 33 |
3.4 Biological Condition | 35 |
Phytoplankton | 35 |
Benthic Communities | 36 |
Finfish and Crustacean Communities | 41 |
Contaminant Levels in Fish Tissu | 47 |
3.5 Incidence of Litter | 48 |
3.6 Integrated Measure of South Carolina’s Estuarine Habitat Quality | 48 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 55 |
LITERATURE CITED | 57 |
DATA APPENDICES | 63 |
Data from this survey period can also be found on the Data Tables page.