Seasonal and spatial variations in fish and macrocrustacean assemblage structure in Mad Island Marsh estuary, Texas

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 57, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 269-282

  Akin, S ^a   Winemiller, K O ^a   Gelwick, F P ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic vegetation; Biotic community; Canonical correspondence analysis; Environmental gradient; Estuary; Gulf of Mexico; Salinity; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CRUSTACEAN; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; FISH; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

GULF OF MEXICO; MAD ISLAND MARSH ESTUARY; MATAGORDA BAY; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DOROSOMA CEPEDIANUM; DOROSOMATINAE; LEPISOSTEIDAE; LEPISOSTEUS; PISCES;

EID: 0042208247     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0272-7714(02)00354-2     Document Type: Article

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