Use of natural and created Spartina alterniflora salt marshes by fishery species and other aquatic fauna in Galveston Bay, Texas, USA

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 151, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 165-179

  Minello, Thomas J ^a   Webb Jr , James W ^b  

^a NOAA Fisheries Service Galveston Laboratory   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Fishery species; Habitat creation; Habitat value; Nekton; Restoration; Salt marsh

Indexed keywords

SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA; BREVOORTIA PATRONUS; CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; DECAPODA; GOBIIDAE; LAGODON RHOMBOIDES; PALAEMONETES PUGEO; PALAEMONETES VULGARIS; PENAEUS AZTECUS; PENAEUS SETIFERUS; POACEAE; POLYCHAETA;

COMMERCIAL SPECIES; HABITAT CREATION; HABITAT IMPROVEMENT; INFAUNA; NEKTON; SALT MARSHES; SALTMARSH;

USA, TEXAS, GALVESTON BAY;

EID: 0030618559     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps151165     Document Type: Article

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