Seasonal and annual variations in abundance and species composition of two nearshore fish communities in Maine

Estuaries

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 636-647

  Lazzari, Mark A ^a   Sherman, Sally ^a   Brown, Clarisse S ^a   King, Jeremy ^a,b   Joule, Bruce J ^a   Chenoweth, Stanley B ^a   Langton, Richard W ^a  

^a MAINE DEPARTMENT OF MARINE RESOURCES   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Div of Mar Fisheries   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; UNITED STATES;

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ICHTHYOFAUNA; NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

MAINE; UNITED STATES;

ALOSA AESTIVALIS; ALOSA PSEUDOHARENGUS; ANIMALIA; CLUPEA HARENGUS; FUNDULUS; FUNDULUS HETERODITUS; ICHTHYOFAUNA; MENIDIA MENIDIA; MICROGADUS TOMCOD; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032722846     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1353051     Document Type: Article

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