Growth, survival, and metal content of marsh invertebrates fed diets of detritus from Spartina alterniflora Loisel. and Phragmites australis Cav. Trin. ex Steud. from metal-contaminated and clean sites

Wetlands Ecology and Management

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 71-84

  Weis, Judith S ^a   Windham, Lisamarie ^a   Santiago Bass, Celine ^b   Weis, Peddrick ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Langan Engineering and Environmental Services Inc   (United States)

^c RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Crab; Detritus; Diet; Growth; Metal; Phragmites; Regeneration; Shrimp; Spartina; Survival

Indexed keywords

DETRITUS; GROWTH; INVERTEBRATE; MARSH; METAL; SURVIVAL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

ANIMALIA; CELUCA PUGILATOR; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; OCYPODIDAE; PALAEMONETES; PALAEMONETES PUGIO; PHRAGMITES; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; SPARTINA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA; UCA; UCA PUGNAX;

EID: 0036123580     PISSN: 09234861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014311521708     Document Type: Article

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