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 |
|---|---|
| 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.