Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

 


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Introduction

Sancutary Program Accomplishments

Intertidal Systems

Rocky Subtidal Systems

Open Ocean & Deep Water Systems

The Physical Environment

Wetlands and Watersheds

Endangered & Threatened Species

Marine Mammals

Bird Populations

Marine Mammals & Bird Surveys

Harvested Species

Human Interactions

Further Reading

Credits

The following sources have been suggested by the authors of each section, for readers who are interested in learning more about the specific topics discussed in this report. (Note: this is NOT a comprehensive bibliography about Sanctuary resources.) A general reference for all Sanctuary resources is the Site Characterization and its bibliography, on the Sanctuary's web page, at http://montereybay.nos.noaa.gov/sitechar/

Intertidal Systems

Doyle, William T. and Pearse, John S. 1972. Intertidal transect studies of northern Monterey Bay; four quarterly reports submitted to the Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments (on file at the Hopkins Marine Station library).

Pearse, John S. 1998. Biodiversity of the rocky intertidal zone in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary: A 24-year comparison. In: Report of Completed Projects 1994-1997, pp. 57-60. California Sea Grant College System, La Jolla, California.

Stanford University Hopkins Marine Station. 1970. Sewage pollution. Final papers Biology 170h (unpublished manuscripts on file at Hopkins Marine Station library).

Turner, Teresa. 1985. Stability of rocky intertidal surfgrass beds: Persistence, preemption, and recovery. Ecology 66:83-92.

Wyllie-Echeverria, S. and Phillips, R. C. 1994. Seagrasses of the North Pacific. In: Seagrass Science and Policy in the Pacific Northwest, S. Wyllie-Echeverria, A. M. Olson, and M. J. Hershman, eds., 63pp. (EPA 910/R-94-004).

Kelp Forests

Dayton, P. K., M. J. Tegner, P. E. Parnell, and P. B. Edwards. 1992. Temporal and spatial patterns of disturbance and recovery in a kelp forest community. Ecological Monographs 62(3): 421-445.

Foster, M. S. 1982. The regulation of macroalgal associations in kelp forests. Pages 185-203 in Synthetic and Degrative Processes in Marine Macrophytes. Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Foster, M. S. and D. R. Schiel. 1985. The ecology of giant kelp forests in California: a community profile. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Biological Report. 85. 152 pp.

Open Ocean and Deep Water Systems

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http://www.oc.nps.navy.mil/local.html

A Natural History of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. The Monterey Bay Aquarium and NOAA. 1997.

Chavez, F. P. and C. A. Collins, eds., Studies of the California Current System Part 1. Deep-Sea Research Part II. Topical Studies in Oceanography. Volume 45, NO. 8-9. (1998) Ed.

Robison, B. and J. Connor. The Deep Sea. The Monterey Bay Aquarium. 1999.

Wetlands and Watersheds

Caffrey, J.M., S. Shaw, M. Silberstein, A. De Vogelaere and M. White. 1997. Water Quality Monitoring in Elkhorn Slough: a summary of results 1988-1997. (1998 data in preparation.) Elkhorn Slough Foundation and Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve Report.

Parkin, J.L. 1998. Ecology of breeding Caspian Terns, Stena caspia, in Elkhorn Slough, California. M.S. Thesis. San Jose State University, San Jose, California.

Reis, D. 1999. Distribution and habitat study of California Red-legged Frogs (Rana aurora draytonii) and Pacific Tree Frogs (Hyla regilla) at Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve. ESNERR report.

Endangered and Threatened Species

Jarman, W.M., C.E. Bacon, J.A. Estes, M. Simon and R.J. Norstrom. 1996. Organochlorine contaminants in sea otters: The sea otter as a bio-indicator. Endangered Species UPDATE 13(2): 20-22.

Riedman, M.L. and J.A. Estes. 1990. The sea otter (Enhydra lutris): Behavior, Ecology and Natural History. U.S. Dept. of Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildl. Service, Biological Report 90(14).

Thomas, N.J., and R.A. Cole. 1996. The risk of disease and threats to the wild population. Endangered Species UPDATE 13(12): 23-27.

Bird Populations

Ainley, D.G., W.J. Sydeman, and J. Norton. Upper trophic level predators indicate interannual positive and negative anomalies in the California Current food web. Marine Ecology Progress Series 118:69-79.

El Niño in the North Pacific, by William J. Sydeman. Point Reyes Bird Observatory Observer 112, Winter 1997-1998.

Where Sea Meets the Sky, by Sharon Levy. New Scientist 3 October 1998.

Marine Mammal and Bird Surveys

BeachCOMBERS

Ainley, D.G., R.E. Jones, G.W. Page, D.J. Long, L.T. Jones, L.E. Stenzel, R.L. LeValley, and L.B. Spear. 1994. Beached marine birds and mammals of the North American West Coast: A revised guide to their census and identification, with supplemental keys to beached sea turtles, sharks and rays. NOAA/GFNMS. 236 pp.

Bodkin, J.L. and R.J. Jameson. 1991. Patterns of seabird and marine mammal deposition along the Central California coast, 1980-1986. Can. J. Zool. 69: 1149-1155.

Stenzel, L.E., G.W. Page, H.R. Carter, and D.G. Ainley. 1988. Seabird mortality as witnessed through 14 years of beached bird censuses. Point Reyes Bird Observatory report for the Gulf of the Farallones Marine Sanctuary. 183 pp.

Bird and Marine Mammal Surveys

Ainley, D.G. and R.J. Boekelheide. 1990. Seabirds of the Farallon Islands: ecology, dynamics and structure of an upwelling-system community. Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, CA 450 pp.

Briggs, K.T. and E.W. Chu. 1986. Sooty Shearwaters off California: distribution, abundance, and habitat use. Condor 88:355-364.

Croll, D. A. 1989. Physical and biological determinants of the distribution, abundance, and diet of the Common Murre in Monterey Bay, California. Studies in Avian Biology 14:139-148.

Harvey, J.T. and S.R. Benson. 1997. Marine bird and mammal distribution and abundance in Monterey Bay, during 1996. Final report to the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Moss Landing Marine Laboratories Technical Publication 97-02.

Schoenherr, J. R. 1991. Blue whales feeding on high concentrations of euphausiids around Monterey Bay submarine canyon. Can. J. Zoo. 69:583-594.

Harvested Species

Foster, Michael and Michael Donnellan, in prep, Giant kelp surface canopy dynamics and small-scale kelp harvesting in the Ed Ricketts Underwater Park region, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA. 95039

Karpov, K.A., D.P. Albin, and W.H. Van Buskirk. 1995. The marine recreational fishery in northern and central California, a historical comparison (1958-86), status of stocks (1980-86), and effects of changes in the California current.

Leet, W.S., Dewees, C.M., and C. W. Haugen. 1992. California's living marine resources. University of California Sea Grant, Davis, CA. 257 pp.

Love, R.M. 1991. Probably more than you ever wanted to know about the fishes of the Pacific coast. Really Big Press, Santa Barbara, CA. 215 pp.

Pacific Fishery Management Council. 1998. Pacific Fishery Management Council Newsletters. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, OR. Web site: www.pcouncil.org

Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission. 1997. Commercial and recreational fisheries statistics published on Internet. Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission, Portland, OR 97201. Web site: www.psmfc.org/

Starr, R.M., K.A. Johnson, N. Laman, and G.M. Cailliet. 1998. Fishery Resources of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. California Sea Grant College System Publication No. T-042, 101 pp.

VenTresca, D.A., J.L. Houk, M.J. Paddack, M.L. Gingras, N.L. Crane, and S.D. Short. 1996. Early life-history studies of nearshore rockfishes and lingcod off central California, 1987-92. California Department of Fish & Game, Marine Resources Division Administrative Report 96-4. 77 pp.

Yoklavich, M. (ed.). 1998. Marine harvest refugia for West Coast rockfish: a workshop. NOAA, NMFS Tech. Memo. NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC-255. 159 pp.



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