Patterns of seasonal availability and habitat use by fishes and decapod crustaceans in a southern New Jersey estuary

Estuaries

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 697-709

  Szedlmayer, Stephen T ^a   Able, Kenneth W ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCHOA; ANCHOA MITCHILLI; APELTES QUADRACUS; ARGENTINA ELONGATA; CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; CENTROPRISTIS STRIATA; CLUPEIDAE; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); LACTUCA; LEIOSTOMUS XANTHURUS; MENIDIA MENIDIA; PISCES; QUADRACUS; REXEA SOLANDRI; SERRANIDAE; SYNGNATHUS FUSCUS; ULVA; ULVA ARASAKII; UROPHYCIS REGIA; DECAPODA;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEMS; ESTUARY; SEASONAL VARIATIONS;

USA, NEW JERSEY;

EID: 0029664189     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1352529     Document Type: Article

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