Comparison of fish and macroinvertebrate use of Typha angustifolia, Phragmites australis, and treated Phragmites marshes along the lower Connecticut River

Estuaries

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 534-551

  Fell, Paul E ^a   Warren, R Scott ^a   Light, John K ^a   Rawson Jr , Robert L ^a   Fairley, Sean M ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NEKTON; SALTMARSH;

CONNECTICUT; CONNETICUT RIVER; LIEUTENANT RIVER; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); FUNDULUS; FUNDULUS HETEROCLITUS; OCYPODIDAE; PALAEMONETES; PALAEMONETES PUGIO; PHRAGMITES; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; PISCES; TYPHA; TYPHA ANGUSTIFOLIA; UCA; UCA MINAX;

EID: 0038784675     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02823729     Document Type: Conference Paper

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