Habitat value of a developing estuarine brackish marsh for fish and macrocrustaceans

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 278-289

  Hampel, Henrietta ^a   Cattrijsse, Andre ^b   Vincx, Magda ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b FLANDERS MARINE INSTITUTE VLIZ   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Developing marsh; Habitat value; Mature marsh; North Sea

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRUSTACEAN; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT CREATION; HABITAT USE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; NEKTON; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SALTMARSH;

NETHERLANDS; SIEPERDA; WESTERSCHELDE;

CARCINUS MAENAS; CLUPEA HARENGUS; CLUPEIDAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA TAXON); DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GRAPSIDAE; MESOPODOPSIS; MESOPODOPSIS SLABBERI; MYSIDA; MYSIDACEA; NEOMYSIS; NEOMYSIS INTEGER; POMATOSCHISTUS; POMATOSCHISTUS MICROPS; PORTUNIDAE; SPRATTUS SPRATTUS;

EID: 0038138146     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1054-3139(03)00013-4     Document Type: Article

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