Composition of larval, juvenile, and small adult fishes relative to changes in environmental conditions in Florida Bay

Estuaries

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 518-533

  Thayer, Gordon W ^a   Powell, Allyn B ^a   Hoss, Donald E ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; ICHTHYOFAUNA; ICHTHYOPLANKTON; SEAGRASS;

FLORIDA; FLORIDA BAY; UNITED STATES;

ANCHOA MITCHILLI; ANIMALIA; ATHERINIDAE; BLENNIOIDEI; CALLIONYMIDAE; CLUPEIDAE; CYNOSCION NEBULOSUS; ENGRAULIDAE; EUCINOSTOMUS; FLORIDICHTHYS CARPIO; GOBIIDAE; HALODULE WRIGHTII; HALOPHILA; HUETOULON; HUETOULON PLUMIERI; ICHTHYOFAUNA; LAGODON RHOMBOIDES; LUCANIA PARVA; PISCES; SYNGNATHUS FLORIDAE; SYRINGODIUM FILIFORME; THALASSIA TESTUDINUM;

EID: 0032878885     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1353215     Document Type: Article

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