Succession of macrobenthos in a created salt marsh

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 141, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 67-82

  Levin, Lisa A ^a   Talley, Drew ^a   Thayer, Gordon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SOUTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Capitella spp; Colonization; Community structure; Dispersal; Epifauna; Life history; Macrofauna; Mitigation; Oligochaetes; Polychaetes; Restoration; Spartina alterniflora

Indexed keywords

ANNELIDA; CAPITELLA; CORNUTA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); LEPUS; OCYPODIDAE; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA); POLYCHAETA; POLYDORA CORNUTA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA; STREBLOSPIO BENEDICTI; TURBELLARIA; POACEAE;

BENTHOS; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; SALTMARSH;

USA, NORTH CAROLINA, NEWPORT ESTUARY;

EID: 0029664197     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps141067     Document Type: Article

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