Books:

1) Introductory Oceanography, 7th ed. (Thurman), Chapter 5 "Marine Sediments"

2) Marine Ecology, 1st ed. (Levington), Chapter 12 "The Nature of Benthic Substrata"

3) Introductory Oceanography, 7th ed. (Thurman), Chapter 4 "Marine Provinces"

4) Marine Biogeochemistry (Libes), Chapter 13 "Classification of Sediments"

5) Marine Ecological Processes (Valiela), Chapter 13 "The Carbon Cycle: Production and Transformation of Organic Matter"

6) Marine Biology: Function, Biodiversity, Ecology (Levinton), Chapter 13 "Benthic Life Habitats"

7) Biological Oceanographic Processes (Parsons et al.), Chapter 6, "Benthic Communities" pp 188-192, 215-220.

8) Ecology of Sandy Shores (Brown & McLachlan), Chapter 3, "Beach and surf zone flora"

9) Bacteria and Mineral Cycling (Fenchel & Blackburn), Chapters 1 & 3 selected parts that look relevent.

10) Estuarine Ecology (Day et al.), Chapter 7, "Microbial Ecology and Organic Detritus in Estuaries"

11) Marine Biology: An Ecological Approach (Nybakken), Chapter 7 "Meiofauna"

12) Introduction to the Study of Meiofauna (Higgins & Thiel, Eds.), Chapter 3 "Ecology of the Marine Meiofauna"

13) Marine Biology: Function, Biodiversity, Ecology (Levinton), Chapter 11 "The Diversity of Benthic Marine Invertebrates"

14) Comparitive Ecology of Microorganisms and Macroorganisms (Andrews), Chapter 4 "Size"

15) Coastal Ecosystem Processes (Alongi), Chapter 2 "Beaches and Tidal Flats"

16) Marine Ecological Processes (Valiela), Various chapters esp. cp 8 "Controls in Benthic Food Webs"

17) Wetlands (Mitch & Gosselink), Chapter 8 "Tidal Salt Marshes"

18) Estuarine Ecosystems: A Systems Approach, Vol 1. (Knox), Chapter 3 "Primary Production" Part II. "Salt Marshes"

19) Ecology of Estuaries: Volume 2 Biological Aspects (Kennish), Chapter 4 "Benthos" B. "Vascular Plants"

20) The Ecology of Eelgrass Meadows of the Atlantic Coast: A community Profile, USFWS 1984

21) The Ecology of the Seagrass Meadows of the West Coast of Florida: A community Profile, USFWS 1989

22) Marine Biology: Function, Biodiversity, Ecology (Levinton), Coral Reefs"

23) Marine Biology: An Ecological Approach (Nybakken), "Coral Reefs"

Papers:

1) Valentine, J.W., and Moores, E.M. 1972. Plate tectonics and the history of life in the ocean.
Scientific American 230:80-89

2) Kemp, P.F. 1990. The fate of benthic bacterial production. Reviews in Aquatic Sciences,
CRC Press, 2(1) 109-124

3+) Papers by Hansen, Alongi, Epstein & Kemp on benthic microbial foodwebs (Note: these papers
are secondary in importance to Kemp (1990) above).

4) Posey, M.H., C. Powell, L. Cahoon and D. Lindquist. 1995. Top down vs. bottom up control of benthic
community composition on an intertidal tideflat. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 185: 19-31.

5) Virnstein, R. W. 1977. The importance of predation by crabs and fishes on benthic infauna
in Chesapeake Bay. Ecology 58: 1199-1217.

6) Harrold, C., Reed, D. 1985. Food availability sea urchin grazing and kelp forest
community structure. Ecology 66 (4) : 1160 - 1169.