The Condition of South Carolina’s Estuarine and Coastal Habitats During 2003-2004
Below is the Table of Contents for the 2003-2004 SCECAP Report (Adobe PDF - file size 3.3MB). 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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1. INTRODUCTION | 1 |
2. METHODS | 2 |
2.1. Sampling Design | 2 |
2.2. Water Quality Measurements | 2 |
2.3. Biological and Sediment Sampling | 3 |
2.4. Habitat Evaluation | 5 |
2.5. Quality Assurance | 5 |
2.6. Data Analyses | 5 |
3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION | 5 |
3.1. Station Array | 5 |
3.2. Water Quality | 6 |
Salinity | 9 |
Dissolved Oxygen | 10 |
pH | 13 |
Nutrients | 14 |
Chlorophyll-a | 16 |
Fecal Coliform Bacteria | 16 |
Turbidity | 20 |
Integrated Assessment of Water Quality | 20 |
3.3. Sediment Quality | 22 |
Sediment Composition | 22 |
Sediment Total Organic Carbon | 22 |
Porewater Ammonia | 22 |
Contaminants | 24 |
Toxicity Bioassays | 26 |
Integrated Assessment of Sediment Quality | 27 |
3.4. Biological Condition | 28 |
Phytoplankton | 28 |
Benthic Communities | 33 |
Finfish and Crustacean Communities | 37 |
3.5. Incidence of Litter | 44 |
3.6. Integrated Measures of South Carolina’s Estuarine Habitat Quality | 44 |
3.7. Future Program Activities | 49 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 51 |
LITERATURE CITED | 52 |
APPENDIX 1 | 57 |
APPENDIX 2 | 62 |
Data from this survey period can also be found on the Data Tables page.