Table of Contents
John Oliver & Rikk Kvitek
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
P.O. Box 450, Moss Landing, CA 95039
I. Physical Features of Shallow Soft Bottom Communities
II. Community Zonation
A. Small and Large-scale Geographic Patterns
B. Shallow Crustacean Zone
C. Deeper Polychaete Zone
III. Disruptions of Zonation Pattern
A. Canyon head
B. Wave-protected parts of Monterey Bay
C. Rock-sand ecotone
IV. Long-term Patterns of Natural and Human Disturbance
V. Selected Shallow Soft Bottom Resources
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