Northeastern Naturalist Volume 13, Special Issue No. 4, 2006

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Front Cover
Inside Front Cover
Board of Editors/indicia page
Preface
General Acknowledgments
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Introduction to the Special Issue: Natural and Anthropogenic Influences on the Mount Hope Bay Ecosystem Rodney A. Rountree and Daniel G. MacDonald	1
Fisheries in Mount Hope Bay: Notes on a Special Symposium from a Session Moderator Giancarlo Cicchetti (Symposium Session Moderator)	27
The Mount Hope Bay Tidal Restriction Atlas: Identifying Man-made Structures which Potentially Degrade Coastal Habitats in Mount Hope Bay, Massachusetts Stephen B. Barrett, Brian C. Graves, and Barbara Blumeris	31
On the Heat Budget for Mount Hope Bay Yalin Fan and Wendell S. Brown	47
Effects of Brayton Point Station’s Thermal Discharge on Mount Hope Bay Winter Flounder Robert J. O’Neill, Thomas L. Englert, and Jee K. Ko	71
Trends in Fish Abundance in Mount Hope Bay: Is the Brayton Point Power Station Affecting Fish Stocks? Joseph T. DeAlteris, Thomas L. Englert, and John A.D. Burnett	95
The Exchange of Water through Multiple Entrances to the Mount Hope Bay Estuary Chris Kincaid	117
Modeling of Temperature Distributions in Mount Hope Bay Due to Thermal Discharges from the Brayton Point Station Craig Swanson, Hyun-Sook Kim, and Subbayya Sankaranarayanan	145
Hypoxia in the Upper Half of Narragansett Bay, RI, During August 2001 and 2002 Christopher F. Deacutis, David Murray, Warren Prell, Emily Saarman, and Larissa Korhun	173
Natural and Anthropogenic Influences on the Mount Hope Bay Ecosystem: Concluding Remarks Daniel G. MacDonald and Rodney A. Rountree	199