Small-scale patterns of nekton use among marsh and adjacent shallow nonvegetated areas of the Galveston Bay Estuary, Texas (USA)

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 193, Issue , 2000, Pages 217-239

  Rozas, Lawrence P ^a   Zimmerman, Roger J ^a  

^a NOAA Fisheries Service Galveston Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Fishery species; Gulf of Mexico; Habitat comparisons; Habitat selection; Nursery areas; Penaeid shrimps; Restoration; Tidal marsh

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC INFAUNA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HABITAT USE; NEKTON;

GALVESTON BAY; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

ANCHOA; ANCHOA MITCHILLI; ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; ARCHOSARGUS PROBATOCEPHALUS; BREVOORTIA PATRONUS; CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; CRUSTACEA; CYPRINODON VARIEGATUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); FARFANTEPENAEUS AZTECUS; FUNDULUS GRANDIS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; JUNCUS ROEMERIANUS; LEIOSTOMUS XANTHURUS; LITOPENAEUS SETIFERUS; MICROPOGONIAS UNDULATUS; MOLLUSCA; MUGIL CEPHALUS; PALAEMONETES PUGIO; PENAEIDAE; PHOXINUS PHOXINUS; PISCES; SCHOENOPLECTUS MARITIMUS; SCIRPUS; SCIRPUS MARITIMUS; SPARTINA ALTERNIFIORA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA; SPARTINA PATENS; SYMPHURUS PLAGIUSA;

EID: 0034724001     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps193217     Document Type: Article

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