Papers of a symposium held Apr. 11-14, 1973. Includes bibliographical references.

Response of estuarine phytoplankton to environmental conditions / T.R. Rice and R.L. Ferguson -- The effects of mercury on the photosynthesis and growth of estuarine and oceanic phytoplankton / R.G. Zingmark and T.G. Miller -- Low temperature resistance adaptations in the killifish, Fundulus heteroclitus / B.L. Umminger -- Studies on the salinity resistance of the copepod Euterpina acutifrons (Dana) / G.S. Moreira -- Nitrogen turnover and food relationships of the pinfish Lagodon rhomboides in a North Carolina estuary / R.M. Darnell and T.E. Wissing -- Factors controlling metabolic capacity adaption in marine invertebrates / R.C. Newell -- Respiratory adaptations in Limulus polyphemus (L.) / K. Johansen and J.A. Petersen -- The extraction of oxygen by estuarine invertebrates / C.P. Mangum and L.E. Burnett -- Adaptations to extreme environments / F.J. Vernberg and W.B. Vernberg -- An analysis of water-content regulation in selected worms / L.C. Oglesby -- Halophytes : adaptive mechanisms / W.H. Queen -- Aspects of individual adaptation to salinity in marine invertebrates / H. Theede -- Cellular adjustments to salinity variations in an estuarine barnacle, Balanus improvisus / H.J. Fyhn and J.D. Costlow -- The uptake and incorporation of glycine by the gills of Rangia cuneata (Mollusca: Bivalvia) in response to variations in salinity and sodium / J.W. Anderson -- Reproduction in bivalve molluscs under environmental stress / B. Bayne -- Physiology and ecology of reproduction in marine invertebrates / A.N. Sastry -- The response of developmental stages of Fundulus to acute thermal shock / S.R. Hopkins and J.M. Dean -- Some physical and nutritional factors which affect the growth and setting of the larvae of the oyster, Crassostrea virginica, in the laboratory / J.L. Dupuy -- Physiological and behavioral evidence for color discrimination by fiddler crabs (Brachyura, Ocypodidae, genus Uca) / G.W. Hyatt -- Dinoflagellate phototaxis : pigment system and circadian rhythm as related to diurnal migration / R.B. Forward Jr.