Correspondence between environmental gradients and summer littoral fish assemblages in low salinity reaches of the Chesapeake Bay, USA

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 177, Issue , 1999, Pages 197-212

  Wagner, C Michael ^a,b   Austin, Herbert M ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chesapeake Bay; Estuarine gradient; Nekton; Tidal freshwater

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; ICHTHYOFAUNA; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

ANIMALIA; ICHTHYOFAUNA; PISCES;

EID: 0033545364     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps177197     Document Type: Article

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