The Circulation of Surface Waters in Raleigh Bay, North Carolina1

Gray, Irving; Cerame-Vivas, M. J.

doi:10.4319/lo.1963.8.3.0330

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“…The concentration of strandings just south of Cape Hatteras may indicate higher bycatch rates in that area due to either higher local abundance of dolphins (Torres et al, 2005), greater concentrations of gillnet effort, or both. In some cases, carcasses from north of Cape Hatteras may be entrained in waters that are driven south around the cape during strong northeast winds, which are more typical during winter months than other seasons (Gray and Cerame-Vivas, 1963). Although overall seasonal effort in the inshore gillnet fi shery is similar to that of the coastal fi shery (Steve et al, 2001), the number of inshore strandings was too low to evaluate spatial effects.…”

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“…Even southern species occurred north of Cape Hatteras; those species with oceanic distributions likely are associated with the Gulf Stream, as it approaches Cape Hatteras and remains close to shore north of the Cape before it meanders east, or with warm-water eddies (Gray and Cerame-Vivas, 1963) that can move shoreward. Although pelagic odontocetes are a diverse group, across species they were often found alive or with evidence of having stranded alive, such as sand in the blowhole and abrasions or bruising on the ventrum and ventral fl ukes.…”

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Strandings as indicators of marine mammal biodiversity and human interactions off the coast of North Carolina

Byrd

Hohn²,

Lovewell³

et al. 2014

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Abstract-The adjacency of 2 marine biogeographic regions off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina (NC), and the proximity of the Gulf Stream result in a high biodiversity of species from northern and southern provinces and from coastal and pelagic habitats. We examined spatiotemporal patterns of marine mammal strandings and evidence of human interaction for these strandings along NC shorelines and evaluated whether the spatiotemporal patterns and species diversity of the stranded animals reflected published records of populations in NC waters.

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Strandings as indicators of marine mammal biodiversity and human interactions off the coast of North Carolina

Byrd

Hohn²,

Lovewell³

et al. 2014

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“…In the summer it tends to move inshore bringing warm, clear water to the shelf. In the winter it is driven offshore by northerly winds and when this happens cold water from the north may move south past Cape Hatteras along the North Carolina coast {Gray & Cerame- Vivas, 1963;Stefansson et al, 1971). Inshore currents south of Cape Hatteras are variable.…”

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Seaweed biogeography of the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States

Searles

1984

Helgolander Meeresunters

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ABSTRACT:The northern boundary of the warm temperate region of the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States is set at Cape Hatteras; the southern boundary lies at Cape Canaveral. There is some spillover of cool temperate species south of Cape Hatteras into North Carolina and spillover of warm temperate species south of Cape Canaveral toward Palm Beach. Elements of the warm temperate flora also extend into the northern Gulf of Mexico, but precise limits to the flora cannot be drawn there. Thirty-one species are endemic to the warm temperate flora. The inshore waters of North Carolina include approximately equal numbers of species with northern and southern centres of distribution; the species of the offshore waters have predominantly southern affinities, but also include most of the endemic species. Seasonal changes in the shallow water flora of North Carolina reflect eurythermal cool temperate and tropical elements in winter and summer respectively and a year-round warm temperate element. These groupings have been verified by experimental studies in which light and temperature were varied. The deep water flora is a summer flora dominated by perennial species. The inshore, eurythermal cool temperate and tropical species have a variety of cryptic stages by which they persist throughout the year.

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“…When the estuary water temperature reached a low of 4.8 "C in January 1967, the temperature a t LO was 14.5 "C. Light penetration was sufficient a t 18 meters to maintain benthic foliacious algae, and the Oculina heads possessed the typical golden-brown coloration which results from a prolific growth of zooxanthellae stimulated by sunlight. Biological recruitment at this site undoubtedly is influenced by the Gulf Stream (see CERAME-VIVAS, 1963, CERAME-VIVAS andGRAY, 1966).…”

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