Response of juvenile fish assemblages in tidal salt marsh creeks treated for Phragmites removal

Estuaries

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 563-573

  Grothues, Thomas M ^a   Able, Kenneth W ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FISH CULTURE; HABITAT RESTORATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SALTMARSH;

ALLOWAY CREEK; NEW JERSEY; UNITED STATES;

BREVOORTIA; BREVOORTIA TYRANNUS; CARNIVORA; LEIOSTOMUS XANTHURUS; MORONE; MORONE AMERICANA; PHRAGMITES; SPARTINA; TYRANNUS;

EID: 0038721746     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02823731     Document Type: Conference Paper

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