Southwest Florida Shelf Regional Biological Communities Survey, Marine Habitat Atlas. Volume 2. An Addendum and Update of the Southwest Florida Shelf Ecosystems Study - Years 1 and 2 Marine Habitat Atlas

摘要

The survey was developed to describe the benthic communities and habitats off southwest Florida, from Florida Bay northward to Charlotte Harbor, and in depths from 20 to 200m. A portion of the descriptive work was based on tows of underwater television, still camera, side scan sonar, and shallow subbottom profiling systems across the shelf. The Year III report updates a previous report from Years I and II. It describes six (6) visually identifiable habitats and ten (10) identifiable community types, one not seen previously. The narrative report accompanies a large-format Atlas (Volume 1, not available through NTIS).