Evaluating salt marsh restoration in Delaware Bay: The response of blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus, at former salt hay farms

Estuaries

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 709-719

  Jivoff, Paul R ^a   Able, Kenneth W ^b  

^a RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRAB; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SALTMARSH;

DELAWARE; DELAWARE BAY; UNITED STATES;

CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0041926607     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02711982     Document Type: Article

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