The Condition of South Carolina’s Estuarine and Coastal Habitats During 2001-2002
Below is the Table of Contents for the 2001-2002 SCECAP Report (Adobe PDF - file size 2.3MB). Adobe® Reader® is required to open this file and is available as a free download from the Adobe® Web site.
Table of Contents
| Section | Page |
|---|---|
| 1. INTRODUCTION | 1 |
| 2. METHODS | 1 |
| 2.1. Sampling Design | 1 |
| 2.2. Water Quality Measurements | 2 |
| 2.3. Biological and Sediment Sampling | 2 |
| 2.4. Habitat Evaluation | 4 |
| 2.5. Quality Assurance | 4 |
| 2.6. Data Analyses | 4 |
| 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION | 4 |
| 3.1. Station Array | 4 |
| 3.2. Water Quality | 5 |
| Temperature | 7 |
| Salinity | 8 |
| Dissolved Oxygen | 9 |
| pH | 10 |
| Nutrients | 12 |
| Chlorophyll-a | 15 |
| Biochemical Oxygen Demand | 18 |
| Water Column Total Organic Carbon | 19 |
| Fecal Coliform Bacteria | 20 |
| Turbidity | 21 |
| Alkalinity | 21 |
| Integrated Assessment of Water Quality | 21 |
| 3.3 Sediment Quality | 24 |
| Sediment Composition | 24 |
| Sediment Total Organic Carbon | 25 |
| Porewater Ammonia | 26 |
| Contaminants | 27 |
| Toxicity | 28 |
| Integrated Assessment of Sediment Quality | 28 |
| 3.4 Biological Condition | 31 |
| Phytoplankton | 31 |
| Benthic Communities | 33 |
| Finfish and Crustacean Communities | 39 |
| Contaminant Levels in Fish Tissue | 44 |
| 3.5 Incidence of Litter | 45 |
| 3.6 Integrated Measures of South Carolina’s Estuarine Habitat Quality | 45 |
| 3.7 Non-random Stations | 49 |
| 3.8 Summary | 51 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 52 |
| LITERATURE CITED | 53 |
| APPENDIX | 59 |
Data from this survey period can also be found on the Data Tables page.