Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota: Volume 4, Ecosystem-Based Management

Contents

v Contents Foreword: Fifty-Year Update of Bulletin 89 ix John W. Tunnell Jr., Darryl L. Felder, and Sylvia A. Earle Preface xv 1 The Salinity Transition Zone Between the Southern Everglades and Florida Bay: System Functioning and Implications for Coastal Zone Management 1 John W. Day, Fred Sklar, Jaye E. Cable, Daniel L. Childers, Carlos Coronado-Molina, Steve E. Davis, Steve Kelly, Christopher J. Madden, Brian Perez, Enrique Reyes, David T. Rudnick, and Martha A. Sutula 2 Use of Models in Ecosystem-Based Management of the Southern Everglades and Florida Bay, Florida 25 Christopher J. Madden 3 Ecosystem-Based Management of the Apalachicola River–Apalachicola Bay System, Florida 53 Robert J. Livingston 4 Ecosystem-Based Management of Mobile Bay, Alabama 71 John F. Valentine, Kenneth L. Heck Jr., Michael R. Dardeau, and Hank Burch 5 Integrated Coastal Management in the Mississippi Delta: System Functioning as the Basis of Sustainable Management 93 John W. Day, John Barras, G. Paul Kemp, Robert Lane, William J. Mitsch, and Paul H. Templet 6 Ecosystem-Based Management of Galveston Bay, Texas 109 L. James Lester, Lisa A. González, and Priscilla A. Weeks 7 Ecosystem-Based Management in the Laguna Madre, Western Gulf of Mexico 131 Elizabeth H. Smith, Alfonso Banda, John W. Tunnell Jr., and Kim Withers vi ~ Contents 8 México-United States Shared Environmental Problems in the Rio Grande/ Río Bravo Basin Ecosystem 153 Sergio Jiménez-Hernández and Gary L. Powell 9 Ecosystem Functioning: The Basis for Sustainable Management of Terminos Lagoon, Campeche Mexico 167 Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia, John W. Day, Ana L. Lara-Domínguez, Patricia Sánchez-Gil, Guillermo J. Villalobos, and Jorge A. Herrera-Silveira 10 The Role of Participation in Ecosystem-Based Management: Insight from the Usumacinta Watershed and Terminos Lagoon, Mexico 201 Bruce Currie-Alder 11 Ecosystem Approach Based on Environmental Units for Management of the Centla Wetlands Biosphere Reserve: A Critical Review for its Future Protection 213 Ana Laura Lara-Domínguez, Enrique Reyes, Mario A. Ortiz Pérez, Patricia Méndez-Linares, Patricia Sánchez-Gil, David Zárate Lomelí, John W. Day, Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia, and Eduardo Sáinz Hernández 12 Landscape, Land Use, and Management in the Coastal Zone of Yucatan Peninsula 225 Jorge A. Herrera-Silveira, Francisco A. Comin, and Luis Capurro Filograsso 13 Biogeochemistry of Gulf of Mexico Estuaries: Implications for Management 243 Thomas S. Bianchi, Jonathan R. Pennock, and Robert R. Twilley 14 Global Climate Change Impacts on Coastal Ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico: Considerations for Integrated Coastal Management 253 John W. Day, Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia, James H. Cowan, Richard H. Day, Robert R. Twilley, and John R. Rybczyk 15 Sea-Level Rise and Vulnerability of Coastal Lowlands in the Mexican Areas of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea 273 Mario A. Ortiz Pérez, Ana P. Méndez Linares, and José R. Hernández Santana 16 Southwestern Gulf of Mexico Reefs: Connectivity, Biogeographical Relationships, and Management Implications 291 Hector Reyes-Bonilla and Eric Jordán-Dahlgren 17 Coral Reef Management and Conservation in the Southern Gulf of Mexico 305 John W. Tunnell Jr. and Ernesto A. Chávez 18 Considerations for an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management in the Southern Gulf of Mexico 319 Juan C. Seijo, John F. Caddy, and William W. Arzápalo 19 Ecosystem-Based Management of Coastal Fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico: Environmental and Anthropogenic Impacts and Essential Habitat Protection 337 Donald M. Baltz and Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia 20 Systems Approach for Coastal Ecosystem-Based Management in the Gulf of Mexico: Ecological Pulsing, the Basis for Sustainable Management 371 Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia and John W. Day 21 Perspectives of Mangrove Ecosystem Management in Cuba 399 Daniel O. Suman Contents ~ vii 22 Toward a Regional Program for ICZM in the Mexican Area of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean: An Analysis Revisiting Two Decades of Publications 417 David Zárate Lomelí, Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia, John W. Day, Patricia Sánchez-Gil, Hector Alafita Vásquez, and José J. Ramírez Gordillo Contributors 445 Index 451 ...