Macroinvertebrate and fish populations in a restored impounded salt marsh 21 years after the reestablishment of tidal flooding

Environmental Management

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 516-530

  Swamy, Varun ^a   Fell, Paul E ^a   Body, Misha ^a   Keaney, Michael B ^a   Nyaku, Mawuli K ^a   McIlvain, Elizabeth C ^a   Keen, Alice L ^a  

^a The Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy   (United States)

Author keywords

Fishes; Macroinvertebrates; Recovery times; Tidal salt marsh restoration

Indexed keywords

FISHERIES; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TIDES;

WILDLIFE;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

FISH; FLOODING; MACROINVERTEBRATE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SALTMARSH; TIDAL CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; DENSITY; FISH; FLOODING; GAMMARUS; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MUSSEL; SALT MARSH; SNAIL; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; CRUSTACEA; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; ECOSYSTEM; ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOOD CHAIN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME; WATER FLOW;

UNITED STATES;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMALIA; FUNDULUS; FUNDULUS HETEROCLITUS; GAMMARUS; GAMMARUS PALUSTRIS; GASTROPODA; GEUKENSIA DEMISSA; MELAMPUS; MELAMPUS BIDENTATUS; ORCHESTIA; ORCHESTIA GRILLUS; PISCES;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CRUSTACEA; ECOSYSTEM; ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD CHAIN; FUNDULIDAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SNAILS; TIME FACTORS; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 0036527994     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-001-0052-9     Document Type: Article

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