This report is the result of a collaborative effort by five CREDDP principal investigator/researchers and CREDDP's staff science/management coordinator. The five (Simenstad, Jay, McIntire, Sherwood, and Small) contracted with CREDDP in late 1982 to carry out the Integration work unit, described in CREDDP's Revised Plan of Study (1982) as follows: The purpose of the Integration work unit is to synthesize the results of the various biological and physical work units and to produce a report describing the structural and functional attributes of the estuarine ecosystem. Satisfactory integration is particularly crucial for the successful completion of CREDDP, as most of the important management concerns are related to the complex interactions among the individual subsystems under examination by the work units. Most management questions cannot be answered from information generated by an individual work unit without a good knowledge of how that information couples with the results of other work units.
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