Subject Index
- biomass ratios(P/B ratio) 318,321
- primary 240-241,243-244,270,341
secondary 240,242,245, 320
pumping costs 88
- rate 82
ragworm 85
ray 136
recovery recent 165
recruitment 45,156,320,326-327,365
reefs 12-13,16,18,21,23-24,27,
regulation 326, 328
residence time 17
resilience 309
Resource Heterogeneity Hypothesis
(RHH) 348, 350
retention effiency 81
rheotactic response 81
rhizophytic algae 200
Ria de Arosa 19, 28
Rio Formosa 237 -239,245,249
roughness 29
Sahara Desert 256
salinity 215-216,219
- gradient 215
- stress 216
saltmarsh 184,189,241,243,245-247,
363,365,369
- creek 175,183,185-187,189
- erosion 173,189
- restoration 173
- vegetation 185
San Francisco Bay 29-30
sand flat 160,246,247
sandy beach 61,358,359 see beach
scale 330
scale-depency 342
scales of mobility 308
scaling-up 298
scavenging 89
seagrass 4-6,241,348,357,364-365,369
see eelgrass
- beds 243,246,264-265,270
- settlement 205
sea-level rise (SLR) 173-174
seasonality 301
sebkha 260,265,268-269
sediment accretion 181-182
- non-cohesive 114
particle size 338
- properties 163
- resuspension 179
- reworking 129
- stability 180
- transport 127
- trapping 51
- water content 337
SE-England 184
self-enhancing 30
Senckenberg am Meer 131
set-back 176
shear stress 179
shelducks 136
shell deposits 266
shellfisheries 141
shifting baselines 309
Shikmona 19
shore crabs 326
shorebirds 342-343
siphon nipping 94
small-scale experiments 304
soft sediment 297
soft-bottom 39
soft -corals 83
South Carolina 16
South San Francisco Bay 19, 28
Southeast Florida 20
Spain 69
spatial and temporal complexity 39
- distribution 150,284,289
heterogeneity 297
scale 42,297,330
- structure 41
- zonation 284-285
species diversity 276,279,289,362
- interactions 286 see interaction
- richness 4,202,279,364-365,369
stability 40,118-119
stingray 163
383
stock-recruitment relationship 327,329
storm damage 43
strategies 298
stromatolites 113
subsidies 340-343
substrate alteration 195
- extension 195
- protection 195
succession 204,299
- classical model 299