Macrobenthos of Spartina foliosa (Pacific Cordgrass) salt marshes in southern California: Community structure and comparison to a pacific mudflat and a Spartina alterniflora (Atlantic Smooth Cordgrass) marsh

Estuaries

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 129-144

  Levin, Lisa A ^a   Talley, Theresa Sinicrope ^a   Hewitt, Judi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MUDFLAT; PACIFIC CORDGRASS; SALTMARSH; SMOOTH CORDGRASS; ZOOBENTHOS;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH CAROLINA; USA;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; CRUSTACEA; ENCHYTRACEIDAE; ENCHYTRAEIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; NAIDIDAE; OLIGOCHAETA; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA); PERACARIDA; POACEAE; POLYCHAETA; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SPARTINA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA; SPARTINA ANGLICA; SPARTINA FOLIOSA; TUBIFICIDAE;

EID: 0031912932     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1352552     Document Type: Article

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