1. Preface

   • A. F. Holland
   • Björn Kjerfve

   EditorialNotes Pages: 81 - 82

2. Tibor Thomas Polgar

   Announcement Pages: 83 - 83

3. The use of long-term biological data to generate testable hypotheses

   • Bruce C. Coull

   OriginalPaper Pages: 84 - 92

4. Long-term variation of macrobenthos in a mesohaline region of Chesapeake Bay

   • A. F. Holland

   OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 113

5. Reconstruction of long-term time series for commercial fisheries abundance and estuarine pollution loadings

   • J. K. Summers
   • T. T. Polgar
   • G. T. DiNardo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 114 - 124

6. Investigation of relationships among pollutant loadings and fish stock levels in Northeastern estuaries

   • T. T. Polgar
   • J. K. Summers
   • D. G. Heimbuch

   OriginalPaper Pages: 125 - 135

7. Abundance fluctuations among benthic invertebrates in two pacific estuaries

   • Frederic H. Nichols

   OriginalPaper Pages: 136 - 144

8. The annual cycle of kiel bight plankton: A long-term analysis

   • Victor Smetacek

   OriginalPaper Pages: 145 - 157

9. Long-term estuarine variability and associated biological response

   • R. Warren Flint

   OriginalPaper Pages: 158 - 169

10. Factors influencing the salinity regime of Lake Pontchartrain, Lousiana, a shallow coastal lagoon: Analysis of a long-term data set

    • Walter B. Sikora
    • Björn Kjerfve

    OriginalPaper Pages: 170 - 180

11. Benthic nutrient remineralization in a coastal lagoon ecosystem

    • Barbara L. Nowicki
    • Scott W. Nixon

    OriginalPaper Pages: 182 - 190

12. Eutrophication and management initiatives for the control of nutrient inputs to Rhode Island coastal lagoons

    • Virginia Lee
    • Stephen Olsen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 191 - 202

13. Tidal exchange between a coastal lagoon and offshore waters

    • Tatsusaburo Isaji
    • Malcolm L. Spaulding
    • Joseph Stace

    OriginalPaper Pages: 203 - 216

14. Retention of winter flounder larvae within a Rhode Island salt pond

    • Richard E. Crawford
    • Constance Grove Carey

    OriginalPaper Pages: 217 - 227

15. Variability of dissolved reactive phosphate flux rates in nearshore estuarine sediments: Effects of groundwater flow

    • Carl F. Zimmermann
    • John R. Montgomery
    • Paul R. Carlson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 228 - 236

16. Substrate characteristics associated with the distribution of the ribbed mussel, Geukensia demissa (Modiolus demissus), on a tidal creek bank in Southern New Jersey

    • Mark L. Kraus
    • John H. Crow

    OriginalPaper Pages: 237 - 243

17. The impact of discharges from seafood processing on southeastern estuaries

    • Keith W. Gates
    • Brian E. Perkins
    • Wayne A. Bough

    OriginalPaper Pages: 244 - 251

18. Book reviews

    • Gary R. Gaston
    • James D. Felley

    BookReview Pages: 252 - 253