Nekton use of salt marsh, seagrass, and nonvegetated habitats in a South Texas (USA) estuary

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 481-501

  Rozas, Lawrence P ^a   Minello, Thomas J ^a  

^a NOAA Fisheries Service Galveston Laboratory   (United States)

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