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Biological Effects of Power-plant Thermal Effluents in Card Sound, Florida

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Anitra Thorhaug ,
Martin A. Roessler ,
Steven D. Bach ,
Raymond Hixon ,
Iver M. Brook  and
Michael N. Josselyn
Anitra Thorhaug
Affiliation:
Professor of Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Tamiami Campus, Miami, Florida 33199, U.S.A.,
Martin A. Roessler
Affiliation:
Tropical BioIndustries Development Company, 9000 S.W. 87th Court, Miami, Florida 33176, U.S.A.,
Steven D. Bach
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania 16335, U.S.A.,
Raymond Hixon
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, University of Miami, Miami, Florida 33149, U.S.A.,
Iver M. Brook
Affiliation:
Department of Biology and Living Resources, School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, University of Miami, Miami, Florida 33149, U.S.A.,
Michael N. Josselyn
Affiliation:
Department of Biology and Living Resources, School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, University of Miami, Miami, Florida 33149, U.S.A.
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Few studies have been reported of the effects of power-plant discharges on tropical and semi-tropical marine environments where plants and animals in non-stressed conditions live close to their upper lethal thermal limits. This paper describes a multidisciplinary three-years' study made in Card Sound, Florida, before, during, and after, thermal effluents were released from a power-plant. Biomass, growth, and production, of Thalassia and macroalgae, were estimated. Animals were collected by trawl, drop-net, suction dredge, in artifical habitats, and on mesh-panels. Except in an area of 2–3 ha adjacent to the canal mouth, little damage to the benthic community was observed. This was very different from the effect of the first canal emanating from the same power-plant at Turkey Point, where a large area had been affected by heated effluents.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , Summer 1979 , pp. 127 - 137
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1979

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