Corpu sChristi Bay contains one of the largest nesting colonies of the Brown Pelican on the Texas coast. The major tasks for the Living Resources Project included an extensive literature survey of estuarine living resources, data acquisition and analysis to determine temporal and spatial trends of these resources, identification of probable causes for changes in living resources, and finally, identification of data and information gaps as a result of those analyses. Highlights of the report are outlined below.
Information is inadequate to make sound scientific and management decisions on certain issues.
The ecology and biology of only two of the eight habitats found in the study area, seagrass meadows and open bay habitats, have been studied extensively. Coastal marshes, oyster reefs, and tidal flats have received the least attention. The plants are dominated by diatoms and vascular plants. The animals are dominated by invertebrates. The annelids, molluscs, and arthropods dominate the invertebrates.