Subject Index
Abrolhos Bank 83
Abrolhos Depression 83
Acanthaster planci 284, 293
advective transport 74
algal blooms 138, 160
Amazon River 62
anadromous 192
anchovy 236
Andean margin 6, 7
anoxic conditions 50, 58
anthropic activities 276
anthropogenic 297
anthropogenic forcing 326
anthropogenic impact 349
anthropogenic threats 299
anticyclonic dominance 111
aquaculture 127
mammals 66
aquatic vascular plant 64
Argentina 159
artisanal fisheries 160
artisanal fishermen 181
assemblages 156
Atlantic coastline
autochthonous carbon 175
backwaters 119
bacteria 152
bacterial populations 126
bacterioplankton 233
Bahia de Amatique 17
Bahia San Bias 205
Baixada Fluminense 108
Baja California 282, 285, 332
Baleia Point 85
banana industry 26
bank reefs 90
barrier island 268
beach types 223
Belize barrier reef 17, 25
benthic community 101, 170
benthic fauna 275
benthic organisms 235
benthos 211,253
bioconcentration 115
biodiversity 25, 30, 142, 157
bioeroders 291
bioeroding mollusks 88
bioerosion 270, 284
biogeochemical process 323
biological change 321
bird fauna 66
birds 38
bivalves 102
bloom 41
boring organisms 269
Brazil 159
Brazil Current 85, 98, 147
Brazilian margin 3
breakup of Gondwana
breeding sites 173
Buenaventura Bay 265
calcification rates 294
calcium carbonate accumulation 295
California Current (CC) System 316
California Currents 282
carbonate platform 5
Caribbean deformed belt 12
Caribbean margin 10, 11
Caribbean sea 33
Catatumbo River 47
Cayman Trench 17
Central American seaway 285
cephalopd 155
Cetacea 55
Chilean coast 219
Chiloe Island 219
chlorophyll 76, 115,255