The Gulf of Mexico: Towards an integration of coastal management with large marine ecosystem management

Ocean and Coastal Management

Volumn 47, Issue 11-12 SPEC. ISS, 2004, Pages 537-563

  Yáñez Arancibia, Alejandro ^a   Day, John W ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; DRAINAGE; ECOSYSTEMS; OCEAN HABITATS; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTION; WETLANDS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; COASTAL MANAGEMENT; FRESHWATER SHORTAGE; GULF OF MEXICO; MARINE ECOSYSTEM;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; TRANSBOUNDARY COOPERATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 14644446009     PISSN: 09645691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2004.12.001     Document Type: Article

References (117)

1. H. Kumpf K. Steidinger K. Sherman The Gulf of Mexico large marine ecosystem assessment, sustainability and management 1999 Blackwell Science Inc. Malden, MA 704pp
2. S. Olsen Linking integrated coastal management with large marine ecosystem management H. Kumpf K. Steidinger K. Sherman The Gulf of Mexico large marine ecosystem assessment, sustainability and management vol. 36 1999 Blackwell Science Malden, MA 626 633
3. D. Zárate Lomelí, T. Saavedra, J.L. Rojas, A. Yáñez-Arancibia, and E. Rivera Terms of reference towards an integrated management policy in the coastal zone of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Ocean & Coastal Management 42 2-4 1999 345 368
4. Zárate Lomelí D, Yáñez-Arancibia A, Day JW, Lacy Tamayo R, Martinez Arroyo A, Ortiz Perez MA, Lara-Dominguez AL, Alafita Vasquez H. The regional program for ICZM in the Mexican area of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. Integrated coastal management in the Gulf of Mexico large marine ecosystem. 2nd Panel ICZM-Gulf/Caribbean, INECOL A.C. and SEMARNAT Mexico, Xalapa 03/6-7, 2003, 60pp.
5. Zarate Lomeli D, Yáñez-Arancibia A, Day JW, Ortíz Pérez M, Lara-Domínguez AL, Ojeda de la Fuente C, Morales Arjona LJ, Guevara Sada S. Lineamientos para el programa regional de manejo integrado de la zona costera del Golfo de México y Caribe. In Diagnostico del Medio Ambiente del Golfo de México; INE-SEMARNAT, INECOL A. C., HRIGMS Texas A & M University, editors, 2004.
6. Olsen S, editor. Crafting Coastal Governance in a Changing World. Coastal Resources Management Program CRC/USAID, The University of Rhode Island, Coastal Management Report # 2241, 2003. 375pp.
7. Castillo C, Currie-Alder Bab, Day JC. The Mexican park and protected area system. In: Protected Areas and the Regional Planning Imperative in North America. The University of Calgary Press, Mihigan State University Press, 2003. p. 61-71.
8. T. Beatley, D.J. Brower, and A.K. Schwab An introduction to coastal zone management 2002 Island Press Washington, DC 330pp
9. B. Cicin-Sain, and R.W. Knecht Integrated coastal and ocean management concepts and practices. CSMP University of Delaware, IOC-UNESCO 1998 Insland Press Washington, DC 517pp
10. N.N. Rabalais, R.E. Turner, and W.J. Wiseman Hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico linkages with the Mississippi River H. Kumpf K. Steidinger K. Sherman The Gulf of Mexico large marine ecosystem assessment, sustainability and management vol. 18 1999 Blackwell Science Malden, MA 297 322
11. W.J. Mitsch, J.W. Day, J. Wendell, P.M. Groffman, D.L. Hey, G.W. Randall, and N. Wang Reducing nitrogen loading to the Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi River Basin strategies to counter a persistent ecological problem BioScience 51 5 2001 373 388
12. L.M. Alexander Management of large marine ecosystems a law of the sea-based governance regime H. Kumpf K. Steidinger K. Sherman The Gulf of Mexico large marine ecosystem assessment, sustainability and management vol. 30 1999 Blackwell Science Malden, MA 511 515
13. K. Sherman Modular approach to the monitoring and assessment of large marine ecosystems H. Kumpf K. Steidinger K. Sherman The Gulf of Mexico large marine ecosystem assessment, sustainability and management vol. 3 1999 Blackwell Science Malden, MA 34 63
14. NOAA Gulf of Mexico coastal and ocean zones strategic assessment data Atlas. Stock No. 003-017 National Marine Fisheries Service 1985 NOAA Washington, DC
15. USEPA. Ecological condition of estuaries in the Gulf of Mexico. US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Gulf Ecology Division, Gulf Breeze FL. EPA 236-F-98-007m, 1999. 71pp.
16. Weber M, Towsend RT, Bierce R. Environmental quality in the Gulf of Mexico:a citizen's guide. Center for Marine Conservation, US Environmental Protection Agency, The Gulf Mexico Program, Washington, DC, 1990. 130pp.
17. Yáñez-Arancibia A, Day JW. Environmental sub-regions in the Gulf of Mexico: ecosystem approach as an integrated management tool. In Integrated coastal management in the Gulf of Mexico large marine ecosystem. Ocean & Coastal Management (Special Issue) 2004: 47 (11-12).
18. Yáñez-Arancibia A, Lara-Dominguez AL, Zárate Lomelí D, Sánchez-Gil P, Jiménez Hernández S, Sánchez Martínez A, Rivera Arriaga E, Flores Nava A, Ortiz Pérez MA, Muñoz Piña C, Becerra M, Day JW, Powell GL, Madden CJ, Reyes E, Barrientos C. Sub. Region 2 Gulf of Mexico Report of Scaling & Scoping & Detailed Assessment. Global International Water Assessment GIWA UNEP/GEF, Kalmar Sweden, 2003. 396pp.
19. D. Pauly, F. Arreguin, J. Browder, V. Chistensen, S. Manickchand, E. Martinez, and L. Vidal Towards stratified mass-balance model of trophic fluxes in the Gulf of Mexico large marine ecosystem H. Kumpf K. Steidinger K. Sheman The Gulf of Mexico large marine ecosystem assessment, sustainability and management vol. 17 1999 Blackwell Science Malden, MA 278 295
20. J.D. Giattina, and D.T. Altsman Gulf of Mexico program partnership with a purpose H. Kumpf K. Steidinger K. Sherman The Gulf of Mexico large marine ecosystem assessment, sustainability and management vol. 1 1999 Blackwell Science Malden, MA 3 13
21. D.J. Fruge US fish and wildlife service's approach to trust resource management in Gulf of Mexico river drainages H. Kumpf K. Steidinger K. Sherman The Gulf of Mexico large marine ecosystem assessment, sustainability and management vol. 38 1999 Blackwell Science Malden, MA 645 666
22. USDI. US Department of Interior. Gulf of Mexico Scales 157 and 161: Central and Western Planning Areas Draft Environmental Impact Statement. Vols. I and II, MMS95-001. New Orleans, LA, 1995.
23. USFWS. Watershed Based Ecosystem [map]. US Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, DC, 1995.
24. Vidal L, Pauly D. Integration of subsystems models of as a tool toward describing feeding interactions and fisheries impacts in the Gulf of Mexico large marine ecosystem. In: Integrated coastal management in the Gulf of Mexico large marine ecosystem. Ocean & Coastal Management (Special Issue) 2004: 47 (11-12).
25. J.W. Day, A. Yáñez-Arancibia, W.J. Mitsch, A.L. Lara-Domínguez, J.N. Day, K. Jae-Young, R. Lane, J. Lindsey, and D. Zárate Lomelí Using ecotechnology to address water quality and wetland habitat loss problems in the Mississippi basin (and Grijalva/Usumacinta basin), a hierachical approach Biotechnology Advance 22 2003 135 159
26. Day JW, Diaz de Leon A, González Sansón G, Moreno-Casasola P, Yáñez-Arancibia A. Diagnóstico ambiental del Golfo de México: resumen ejecutivo. In: Diagnostico del Medio Ambiente del Golfo de México; INE-SEMARNAT, INECOL A. C., HRIGMS Texas A & M University, editors, 2004. p. 1-25.
27. L.A. Deegan, J.W. Day, J.G. Gosselink, A. Yánez-Arancibia, G. Soberón Chavez, and P. Sánchez-Gil Relationships among physical characteristics, vegetation distribution and fisheries yield in the Gulf of Mexico estuaries D.A. Wolfe Estuarine variability 1986 Academic Press Inc. Orlando, FL 83 100
28. T.S. Bianchi J.R. Pennoch R.R. Twilley Biogeochemistry of Gulf of Mexico estuaries 1999 Wiley New York 428pp
29. J.C. Cato, and C.M. Adams Economic significance of the Gulf of Mexico related to population, income, employment, minerals, fisheries, and shipping H. Kumpf K. Steidinger K. Sherman The Gulf of Mexico large marine ecosystem assessment, sustainability and management vol. 2 1999 Blackwell Science Malden, MA 14 33
30. Adam CM, Hernandez E, Cato JM. The economic significance of the Gulf of Mexico related to population, income, employment, minerals, fisheries and shipping. Integrated coastal management in the Gulf of Mexico large marine ecosystem. Ocean & Coastal Management (Special Issue) 2004: 47 (11-12).
31. Sánchez-Gil P, Yáñez-Arancibia A, Ramirez Gordillo JJ, Day JW, Templet PH. Some socio economics indicators of the Mexican states of the Gulf of Mexico. Integrated coastal management in the Gulf of Mexico large marine ecosystem. Ocean & Coastal Management (Special Issue) 2004: 47 (11-12).
32. M.P. Sissenwine, and E.B. Cohen Resource productivity and fisheries management of the northeast shelf ecosystem K. Sherman L.M. Alexander B.D. Gold Food chains, yields, models, and management of large marine ecosystems 1991 Boulder, CO Westview Press 1077 1123
33. E.J. Chesney, D.M. Baltz, and R.G. Thomas Louisiana estuarine and coastal fisheries and habitats perspective from a fish's eye view Ecological Applications 10 2 2000 350 366
34. E.J. Chestney, and D.M. Baltz The effects of hypoxia on the northern Gulf of Mexico coastal ecosystem a fisheries perspective N.N. Rabalais R.E. Turner Coastal hypoxia consequences for living resources and ecosystems; coastal and estuarine estudies vol. 58 2001 American Geophysical Union Washington, DC 321 354
35. Sánchez-Gil P, Yáñez-Arancibia A. Grupos ecológicos funcionales y recursos pesqueros tropicales. In: Flores D, Sánchez-Gil P, Seijo JC, Arreguin F, editors. Análisis y Diagnóstico de los Recursos Pesqueros Críticos del Golfo de México. vol. 5. UAC EPOMEX Serie Científica, 1997. p. 357-89.
36. Flores D, Sánchez-Gil P, Seijo JC, Arreguin F, editors. Análisis y Diagnóstico de los Recursos Pesqueros Críticos del Golfo de México. vol. 7, UAC EPOMEX Serie Científica, 1997. 496pp.
37. Commission for Environmental Cooperation Ecological regions of North America towards a common perspective 1997 CEC, NAAEC, NAFTA Montreal, Canada 71pp
38. Commission for Environmental Cooperation Mapping of marine and estuarine areas of North America 2002 SC, CEC, NAAEC, NAFTA Montreal, Canada, Workshop Charleston [maps]
39. Chua T-E, Pauly D, editors. Coastal area management in Southeast Asia: policies, management strategies and case studies. ICLARM conference proceedings. vol. 19. Manila, Philippines, 1989. 254pp.
40. Chua T-E, Scura LF, editors. Integrative framework and methods for coastal area management. ICLARM conference proceeding. vol. 37. 1992. 169pp.
41. A. Vallega Sea management a theorethical approach 1992 Elsevier London 259pp
42. S. Boelaert, and C. Cullinan Legal and institutional aspects of integrated coastal area management in National Legislation 1994 FAO United Nations Rome 118pp
43. J.R. Clark Coastal zone management handbook 1996 Lewis Publishers Boca Raton, FL 694pp
44. Cicin-Sain B, editor. Integrated coastal management. Ocean & Coastal Management (Special Issue) 1993:21:1-377.
45. R.W. Knecht, and J. Archer "Integration" in the US coastal zone management program Ocean & Coastal Management 21 1993 183 200
46. K. Sherman Sustainability, biomass yields, and health of coastal ecosystems an ecological perspective Marine Ecology-Progress Series 112 1994 277 301
47. K. Sherman L.M. Alexander B.D. Gold Large marine ecosystems stress, mitigation, and sustainability 1993 AAAS Press Washington, DC
48. J.W. Day, J.F. Martin, L. Cardoch, and P.H. Templet System functioning as a basis for sustainable management of deltaic ecosystems Coastal Management 25 1997 115 153
49. A. Yáñez-Arancibia Terms of reference towards coastal management and sustainable development in Latin America introduction to special issue on progress and experiences Ocean & Coastal Management 42 2-4 1999 77 104
50. A. Yáñez-Arancibia Coastal management in Latin America C. Sheppard Sea at the millennium an environmental evaluation vol. 28 2000 Pergamon/Elsevier Amsterdam 457 466
51. D. Pauly, V. Christensen, S. Guenette, T.J. Pitcher, U.R. Sumaila, C.J. Walters, R. Watson, and D. Zeller Toward sustainability in world fisheries Nature 418 2002 689 695
52. R. Costanza Toward an operational definition of ecosystem health R. Costanza B.G. Northon B.D. Haskell Ecosystem health new goals for environmental management 1992 Island Press Washington, DC 239 256
53. J. Karr Ecological integrity protecting earth's life support system R. Costanza B.G. Northon B.D. Haskell Ecosystem health new goals for environmental management 1992 Island Press Washington, DC 223 228
54. A. Yáñez-Arancibia, A.L. Lara-Dominguez, J.L. Rojas, D. Zárate Lomelí, G.J. Villalobos, and P. Sánchez-Gil Integrating science and management on coastal marine protected areas in the Southern Gulf of Mexico Ocean & Coastal Management 42 2-4 1999 319 344
55. UNCED. The United Nations conference on environment and development, Rio de Janeiro, 1992. London: Graham and Troutman/Martinus Nijhoff, 1993.
56. J.R. Beddington Shifts in resource populations in large marine ecosystems K. Sherman L.M. Alexander Variability and management of large marine ecosystems. AAAS Symposium 99 1986 Westview Press Boulder, CO 9 18
57. B.O. Jansson, and A.M. Jansson Ecosystem properties as a basis for sustainability A.M. Jansson M. Hammer C. Folke R. Costanza Investing in natural capital the ecological economics approach to sustainability 1994 Washington, DC Island Press 74 91
58. D. Pauly, and V. Christensen Primary production required to sustain global fisheries Nature 374 1995 255 257
59. L. Cardoch, J.W. Day, and C. Ibañez Net primary productivity as an indicator of sustainability in the Ebro and Mississippi deltas Ecological Applications 12 2002 1044 1055
60. R. Goodland, and H. Daly Environmental sustainability universal and nonnegotiable Ecological Applications 6 1996 1002 1017
61. W. Junk The food pulse concept of large rivers learning from the tropics Archiv fur Hydrobiologie, Supplement 115 1999 261 280
62. Junk W, Bailey P, Sparks R. The flood pulse concept in river flood plain systems. In: Dodge DP, editor. Proceeding international large river symposium. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (Special Issue) 1989; 106: 111-27.
63. J.W. Day, D. Pont, P. Hensel, and C. Ibañez Impacts on sea level rise on deltas in the Gulf of Mexico and the Mediterranean the importance of pulsing events to sustainability Estuaries 18 1995 636 647
64. J.W. Day, G. Shaffer, L. Britsch, D. Reed, S. Hawes, and D. Cahoon Pattern and process of land loss in the Mississippi delta a spatial and temporal analysis of wetland habitat change Estuaries 25 2000 425 438
65. R.D. Smith, and E. Maltby Using the ecosystem approach to implement the convention on biological diversity key issues and case studies 2003 IUCN Gland Ewitzerland, Cambridge, UK 118pp
66. J.R. Beddington The primary requirements Nature 4 1995 213 214
67. Botello A, Rojas JL, Benitez J, Zarate Lomelí D, editors. Golfo de México Contaminación e Impacto Ambiental: Diagnóstico y Tendencias. vol. 5, UAC EPOMEX Serie Científica, 1996. 666pp.
68. Dunn D. Trends in nutrient inflow to the Gulf of Mexico from streams draining the United States 1972-93. Water-Resources Investigations Report 96-4114 VS Geological Surrey, Austin, TX, 1996.
69. F.H. Sklar, and J.A. Bowder Coastal environmental impacts brought by alternation to freshwater flow in the Gulf of Mexico Environmental Management 22 1998 547 562
70. L.P. Rosas J.A. Nyman C.E. Proffitt N.N. Rabalais D.J. Reed Turner Recent research in coastal louisiana natural system function and response to human influences 1999 Louisiana Sea Grant College Program Baton Rouge, LA 304pp
71. E. Reyes, M.L. White, J.F. Martin, G.P. Kemp, J.W. Day, and V. Aravamuthan Landscape modeling of coastal habitat change in the Mississippi Delta Ecology 81 8 2000 2331 2349
72. Lara-Domínguez AL, Yáñez-Arancibia A. Day JW. Sustainable management of mangroves in southern Mexico and Central America. In: managing forest ecosystems for sustainable livelihoods. The global biodiversity forum IUCN ecosystem management programme. The Hague, The Netherlands, 2003. p. 1-21. 〈http://www.iucn.org/themes/cem/library/reports/index.htm〉.
73. S.A. Levin Approaches to forecasting biomass yields in large marine ecosystem K. Sherman L.M. Alexander B.D. Gold Large marine ecosystems stress, mitigation, and sustainability 1993 AAAS Press Washington, DC 36 39
74. Christensen V, Pauly D, editors. Trophic models of Aquatic ecosystems. ICLARM conference proceedings. vol. 26. 1993. 290pp.
75. Darnell RM, Defenbaugh RE, Moore D. Northwestern Gulf Shell Bio-Atlas: a study of the distribution of demersal fishes and penaeid shrimp of soft bottoms of the continental shelf from Rio Grande to the Mississippi River Delta. Open File Report 82-04, MMS Gulf of Mexico OCS Regional Office, Metaire, LA, 1983. 438pp.
76. Darnell RM, Kleypas JA. Eastern Gulf Shelf Bio-Atlas: a study of the distribution of demersal fishes and penaeid shrimp of soft bottoms of the continental shelf from the Mississippi River Delta to the Florida Keys. Open File Report 86-0041, MMS Gulf of Mexico OCS Regional Office, New Orleans, LA, 1987. 548pp.
77. Yáñez-Arancibia A, editor. Fish community ecology in estuaries and coastal lagoons: towards an ecosystem integration. Editorial UNAM Mexico, DF, 1985. 654pp.
78. Ortiz Perez M, Valverde C, Psuty NP. The impacts of sea-level rise and economic development on the low-land of the Mexican Gulf coast. In: Botello A, Rojas JL, Benitez J, Zarate Lomelí D, editors. Golfo de Mexico Contaminacion e Impacto Ambiental: Diagnostico y Tendencias, UAC EPOMEX Serie Científica. vol. 5. 1996. 666pp.
79. K.D. Frederick, and G.E. Schwarz Socioeconomic impacts of climate change on US water supplies Journal of the American Water Resources Association 35 6 1999 1563 1584
80. R.R. Twilley, E.J. Barron, H.L. Gholz, M.A. Harwell, R.L. Miller, D.J. Reed, J.B. Rose, E.H. Siemann, R.G. Witzel, and R.J. Zimmerman Confronting climate change in the Gulf coastal region prospects sustaining our ecological heritage 2001 Ecological Society of America Washington, DC 82pp
81. N. LeRoy Poff, M.N. Brinson, and J.W. Day Aquatic ecosystems & global climate change 2002 Pew Center on Global Climatic Change Arlington, VA 44pp
82. D. Scavia, J.C. Field, D.F. Boesch, R.W. Buddemier, V. Bunkett, D.R. Cayon, M.A. Harwell, R.W. Howarth, C. Mason, D.J. Reed, T.C. Roger, A.H. Sallenger, and J.G. Titus Climate change impacts on US coastal and marine ecosystems Estuaries 25 2 2002 149 164
83. E.A. Fernald E.D. Purdum Water resources Atlas of Florida. Institute of Science and Public Affairs 1998 Florida State University Tallahassee, FL
84. INIREB, editor. Ecología y Conservación del Delta de los Rios Usumacinta y Grijalva. INIREB y Gobierno del Estado de Tabasco. Memorias Simposio Internacional. Villahermosa Tabasco, 1988. 714pp.
85. M.S. Flannery, E.B. Pebles, and R.T. Montgomery A percent-of-flows approach for managing reductions of freshwaters inflows from un-impounded rivers to southwest Florida estuaries Estuaries 25 6B 2002 1318 1332
86. W.L. Longley Freshwater inflows to Texas Bays and Estuaries ecological relationships and methods for determinations of needs 1994 Texas Water Development Board and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Austin, TX 386pp
87. G.L. Powell, J. Matsumoto, and D.A. Brook Methods for determining minimum freshwater inflow for needs of Texas Bays and Estuaries Estuaries 25 6B 2002 1269 1274
88. W.L. Conner, T. Bigford, D.W. Frungé, D.W. Gohment, W.B. Hathaway, and L. Bahr Louisiana coastal wetland restoration projects 1997 Louisiana Wetland Conservation and Restoration Task Force 76pp
89. X. Zhong, S.E. Feagley, W. Day J, W.H. Conner, I.D. Hesse, J.M. Rybczyk, and W.H. Hudnall A water chemistry assessment of wastewater remediation in a natural swamp Journal of Environmental Quality 29 6 2000 1960 1968
90. Herrera-Silveira JA, Comin FA, Aranda-Cirerol N, Troccoh L, Capurro L. Coastal water quality assessment in the Yucatan peninsula: management implications. In: Integrated coastal management in the Gulf of Mexico large marine ecosystem. Ocean & Coastal Management (Special Issue) 2004: 47 (11-12).
91. L. Arriaga-Cabrera E. Vázquez J. González-Cano R. Jiménez E. Muñoz V. Aguilar Regiones Prioritarias Marinas de México. Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad 1998 CONABIO, SEMARNAT México, DF
92. Crosby MP. Greenem KS, Bohne R. Alternative access management strategies for marine and coastal protected areas: A reference manual for their development and assessment. US Man and the Biosphere Program, Washington, DC, 2000. 168pp.
93. TNC. Identification of priority sites for conservation in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: an ecoregional plan. The Nature Conservancy, 2000. 40pp.
94. West RC, Psuty NP, Thom BG. Las Tierras Bajas de Tabasco en el Sureste de México. Gobierno del Estado de Tabasco, Villahermosa Tab. 1985. 409pp.
95. M.A. Harwell Ecosystem management of South Florida BioScience 47 8 1997 499 512
96. M. Mangel Empirical and theoretical aspects of fisheries yield models for large marine ecosystems K. Sherman L.M. Alexander B.D. Gold Food chain, yields, models, and management of large marine ecosystems 1991 Westview Press Boulder, CO 243 261
97. S.L. Pimm The complexity and stability of ecosystem Nature 307 1984 321 326
98. A. Bakun The California Current, Benguela Current and Southwestern Atlantic Shelf ecosystems a comparative approach to identifying factors regulating biomass yields K. Sherman L.M. Alexander B.D. Gold Large marine ecosystem stress, mitigation and sustainability 1993 AAAS Washington, DC 199 221
99. L. Mee The Black Sea in crisis a need for concerted international action AMBIO 21 4 1992 1278 1286
100. W.J. Oversholtz, and J.R. Nicolas Apparent leading by the fin whale Balaenoptera physalus, and hump back whale, Megoptera novaeanglae, on the American sand lance, Ammodytes americanus, in the Northwest Atlantic, Fishery Bulletin US 77 1979 285 287
101. P.M. Payne, D.N. Wiley, S.B. Young, S. Pittmann, P.J. Clapham, and J.W. Jossi Recent fluctuations in the abundance of baleen whales in the southern Golf of Maine in relation to changes in selected prey Fishery Bulletin US 88 1990 687 696
102. D. Pauly, V. Cgristensen, and C. Walters Ecopath, ecosism and ecospace as tools for evaluating ecosystem impact of fisheries ICES Journal of Marine Sciences 57 2000 697 706
103. R. Costanza, and M. Magedu What is a healthy ecosystem? H. Kumpf K. Steidinger K. Sherman The Gulf of Mexico large marine ecosystem assessment, sustainability and management vol. 23 1999 Blackwell Science Malden, MA 385 415
104. B.G. Norton, and R.E. Ulanowicz Scale and biodiversity policy a hierarchical approach AMBIO 21 3 1992 244 249
105. D.J. Raport What is clinical ecology? R. Costanza B.G. Norton B.D. Haskell Ecosystem health new goals for environmental management 1992 Island Press Washington, DC 144 156
106. NOAA. Emerging Theorethical Basis for Monitoring the Changing states (Health) of Large Marine Ecosystems: Summary Report of Two Workshops, US Department of Commence, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/NEC-100, Woods Hole, MA, 1993.
107. R. Ahumada, J. Vargas, and L. Pagliero Modeling of oxygen consumption in a bay with high organic loading a remedial tool Journal of Environmental Quality 2004
108. Day JW, Ko J-Y, Rybczyk JM, Sabins D, Bean R, Berthrlot G, Brantley C, Cardoch L, Conner W, Day JN, Englande AJ, Feagley S, Hyfield E, Lane R, Lindsey J, Mistch J, Reyes E, Twilley R. The use of wetlands in the Mississippi delta for wastewater assimilation: a review. In: Integrated coastal management in the Gulf of Mexico large marine ecosystem. Ocean & Coastal Management (Special Issue). 2004; 47 (11-12).
109. L. Cardoch, J.W. Day, J.M. Rybczyk, and G.P. Kemp An economic analysis of using wetlands form treatment of shrimp processing wastewater - a case study in Dulac LA Ecological Economics 33 2000 93 101
110. J.W. Day, L. Cardoch, J.M. Rybczyk, and W. Conner An Ecological and economic overview of wetland wastewater assimilation in coastal Louisiana J.L. Means R.E. Hinchee Wetlands & Remediation 2000 Battelle Press Columbus, OH 161 170
111. Yáñez-Arancibia A., editor. Recursos Faunísticos del Litoral de la Península de Yucatán. vol. 2. UAC EPOMEX Serie Científica, 1994. 136pp.
112. Yáñez-Arancibia A, Lara-Dominguez AL, editors. Mangrove Ecosystem in Tropical America. INECOL A.C. Mexico, UICN/ORMA Costa Rica, NOAA/NMFS Silver Spring, MD, 1999. 380pp.
113. A.M. Breaux, and J.W. Day Policy considerations for wetland wastewater treatment in the coastal zone a case study for Louisiana Coastal Management 22 1994 285 307
114. Rivera EV, Zárate Lomelí D. Where we are and where we should go in coastal management in Mexico. In: North American and European perspectives on oceans and Coastal policy: building partnerships and expanding the technological frontier. Proceedings international conference on coastal and ocean space utilization COSU, Cancún, México, 2000. p. 5-13.
115. Rosado-May FJ, Romero Mayo R, Navarrete AJ. Contribuciones de la Ciencia al Manejo Costero Integrado de la Bahía de Chetumal y su Área de Influencia. USAID-México, CRC-University of Rhode Island. vol. 2, PMIRC-Universidad de Quintana Roo. Serie Bahía de Chetumal, 2002. 327pp.
116. UNEP. Protection of the oceans, all kinds seas, including enclosed and semi-enclosed seas, and coastal areas and the protection, rational use and development of their living resources. United Nation Division for Sustainable Development. Agenda 21, 1999. 24pp. [Chapter 17].
117. Day JW, Templet PH, Jay-You K, Mitsch W, Kemp P, Johnston J, Steyer C, Baras J, Justic D, Clairain E, Theriot R. The Mississippi delta; system functioning, environmental impacts and sustainable management: In: Diagnostico del medio Ambiente del Golfo de México; INE-SEMARNAT, INECOL A. C., HRIGMS Texas A & M University, editors, 2004.