Subject Index
Peruvian hake 237
pesticide 338
pH 249
photosynthesis 198
phytoplankton
53, 64, 76, 78, 124, 152,
212,234,253,267,273
phytoplankton community 319,324
picoplankton 157
pigment concentration 336
pilchard 236
plankton community 169
plant cover 136
plant production 141
Pleistocene regression 83
pluvial regime 61
Pocillopora 285
polar fronts 148
pollution 312
porites 285
Port Honduras 23
post-larvae 254,257
precambrian formation 62
predators 235
preservation 278
primary producers 21
primary production
39, 55, 76, 78, 99,
149,174,233,273,325
pristine 322
productivity 3 7, 254
protozoans 234
protozooplankton 152
provincial boundary 317
Puerto Barrios 26
pulses 35
Punta Sal 28
recruitment 37, 102
redox potential 125
reef walls 92
residual circulation
74
restoration 43
retention 196
Revillagigedo Islands 288
Rhizophora 251
rhodolith communities 297
rift 2
rifting 5
Rio de Janeiro 107
Rio de La Plata 149, 185
river discharge 266, 344
river runoff 94
rivers in South America 342
rocky shores 269
Ruppia maritima beds 171
saline intrusion 327
salinity 50,210
salinity front 185,188
salinity preferences 198
salinity-energy gradient 134
salinization 180
salt flux 75
salt marshes 137
salt tectonics 2, 5
salt wedge 185, 187
sand dynamics 224
sand waves 110
sandy beach 268
Sanozama 10
Sauce Chico River 207
Scianidae 192
sea birds 103
sealevel 93,232,349
sea stars 102
sea surface temperatures 232
seabirds 89, 275
seagrass 77, 79
sea-level canal 302
seasonal variability 222
seawater temperature 219
Secchi depth 335
secondary production 39, 179
sediment loads 350
sediment runoff 207
sediment transport 335
sedimentation rates 109
sewage 57,277
shelf ecosystems 351
shell middens 311
Shore Bird Reserve Network 337
shrimp 254, 257
shrimp ponds 252, 258
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta 34
silicate 250
siltation stress 288
soft bottom 171,237,272
soil salinity 124
Soldado Island 268
soluble reactive phosphate 250
359
South Atlantic central water (SACW) 97
South Pacific Ocean 230
southeastern Brazil 131