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Ecological Study of the Effects of Power Plants on Benthic Macroplant Microcosms in Subtropical and Tropical Estuaries. Annual Progress Report, 1977 - 1978.

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Date Issued:
1978
Summary:
The major efforts of this program have been to examine the effects of energy- related problems on nearshore environments in the subtropics and tropics of the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico regions of the United States and the Caribbean. During the first few years of this investigator's association with the Department of Energy (originally A.E.C.) two fossil fuel and two nuclear plants were examined as to their effects on a nearshore seagrass community at Turkey Point in south Biscayne Bay, Dade County, Florida. Since that time, a series of other power plants (both conventional fossil fuel and nuclear) have been examined for their environmental effects. The effects of heat toxicity, trace (heavy) metals and high salinities, the community processes and dynamics of nearshore subtropical and tropical seagrass ecosystems, and primary productivity and physiology of the dominant food chain organisms in these ecosystems have been studied in detail in both field and laboratory studies.
Title: Ecological Study of the Effects of Power Plants on Benthic Macroplant Microcosms in Subtropical and Tropical Estuaries. Annual Progress Report, 1977 - 1978.
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Name(s): University of Miami
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Technical Report
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1978
Publisher: United States. Department of Commerce. National Technical Information Service
Physical Form: electronic resource
Extent: 20 pages
Language(s): English
Summary: The major efforts of this program have been to examine the effects of energy- related problems on nearshore environments in the subtropics and tropics of the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico regions of the United States and the Caribbean. During the first few years of this investigator's association with the Department of Energy (originally A.E.C.) two fossil fuel and two nuclear plants were examined as to their effects on a nearshore seagrass community at Turkey Point in south Biscayne Bay, Dade County, Florida. Since that time, a series of other power plants (both conventional fossil fuel and nuclear) have been examined for their environmental effects. The effects of heat toxicity, trace (heavy) metals and high salinities, the community processes and dynamics of nearshore subtropical and tropical seagrass ecosystems, and primary productivity and physiology of the dominant food chain organisms in these ecosystems have been studied in detail in both field and laboratory studies.
Identifier: FI07053161 (IID), 1047831 (digitool), fiu:25577 (fedora), AAC5281QF
Note(s): Electronic reproduction. [Florida] : State University System of Florida, PALMM Project, 2007. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Electronic version created 2007, State University System of Florida.
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Host Institution: FIU