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Excerpt from U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Workshop on Coastal Ecosystems of the Southeastern United States Proceedings: A Compilation of Seminars, Discussions, Papers and Biological Summaries Presented at Big Pine Key, Florida, 18-22 February 1980 Many tidal salt marshes are good examples of detrital systems which export large amounts of organic matter to surrounding estuaries which support microbial popula tions, detritivorous animals, and ultimately fisheries. Where the production is pretty much consumed within the ecosystem, e.g., where a marsh might be heavily grazed or the grass (an: for hay, then there could be little or no export from the system, or export could be mostly in the form of nutrients which are released by the grazing activities. In these latter two examples the output environment differs in significant ways which are important to recognize not only from the standpoint of the value of the system itself, but also because of its impact on the adjacent sys tems which are receiving the ex ported material. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.