Estimating secondary production and benthic consumption in monitoring studies: A case study of the impacts of dredged material disposal in Galveston Bay, Texas

Estuaries

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 230-245

  Wilber, Dara H ^a   Clarke, Douglas G ^b  

^a DynTel   (United States)

^b WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WASTE DISPOSAL;

DREDGING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ESTIMATION METHOD; SECONDARY PRODUCTION; WASTE DISPOSAL; ZOOBENTHOS;

GALVESTON BAY; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 0031684863     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1352471     Document Type: Article

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