Habitat use by early life-history stages of fishes and crustaceans along a changing estuarine landscape: Differences between natural and altered shoreline sites

Wetlands Ecology and Management

Volumn 8, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 209-219

  Peterson, M S ^a   Comyns, B H ^a   Hendon, J R ^a   Bond, P J ^a   Duff, G A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Bulkheading; Habitat alteration; Marsh edge; Nekton; Nursery; Salt marsh

Indexed keywords

CRUSTACEAN; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; HABITAT USE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; LIFE HISTORY;

GULF OF MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

CALLINECTES; GOBIOSOMA BOSC; JUNCUS; PALAEMONETES; SPARTINA;

EID: 0033947795     PISSN: 09234861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008452805584     Document Type: Article

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