CERF-Lit

CERF-Lit is the web-based Coastal and Estuarine Science Reference Series. The site provides reference lists of summary papers, classic papers, and contributions prepared by experts to help direct students, teachers and new researchers to the quintessential literature on important estuarine and coastal ocean science topics.

CERF-Lit:

• Climate Change - Drs. Robert R. Christian and Enrique Reyes
• Hypoxia and Anoxia - Dr. Robert Diaz
• Macroalgae - Dr. Brian E. Lapointe
• Mariculture - Dr. David Secor
• Nekton - Dr. Dennis M. Allen
• Restoration - Dr. Joy B. Zedler
• Introduction - Linda Schaffner
• The Baltic Sea - Ragnar Elmgren
• Biodiversity - Emmett Duffy
• Bivalves - Vic Kennedy
• Carbon Cycling in Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystems - Michael Kemp
• Chesapeake Bay - Walter Boynton
• Coastal Ecosystems - Caloosahatchee - Peter Doering
• Coastal Ecosystems - Delmarva Peninsula - Linda Blum
• Coastal Ecosystems - Korea - Hyun-Sig Lim
• Columbia River - Charles Simenstad
• Ecological Risk Assessment - Michael Newman
• Estuarine Fisheries Ecology - David Secor
• Eutrophication - Nancy Rabalais
• Freshwater Flow - Ernest Estevez
• Gulf of Mexico - Mark Peterson and Ken Heck
• Harmful Algal Blooms - JoAnn Burkholder
• Hypoxia - Effects on Benthic Communities - Rutger Rosenberg and Robert Diaz
• Irish Sea - James G. Wilson
• Narragansett Bay - Candace Oviatt
• Nekton - Dennis Allen
• Nitrogen Cycling - Deb Bronk
• Odums, Selected Readings - Scott Nixon
• Physical Processes of Estuarine Systems - Arnoldo Valle-Levinson
• Policy - Donald Boesch
• San Francisco Bay - Jim Cloern
• Secondary Production in Salt Marsh Ecosystems - Michael Weinstein
• Submerged Aquatic Vegetation - Robert Orth and Ken Moore
• Sulfur in Coastal Ecosystems - Anne Giblin
• Tropical Estuaries - Robert Twilley
• Wetland Restoration - Joy Zedler and John Callaway
• Zooplankton of Estuaries - Wim Kimmerer

For additional topics in marine biology and ecology visit the MBREF website.

Send your comments and ideas to: Dr. Linda Schaffner, Associate Professor, School of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, Virginia, 23062, USA; linda@vims.edu.