The effect of fiddler crab burrowing on sediment mixing and radionuclide profiles along a topographic gradient in a southeastern salt marsh

Journal of Marine Research

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 359-390

  McCraith, Barbara J ^a,b   Gardner, Leonard R ^a   Wethey, David S ^a   Moore, Willard S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTURBATION; BURROWING; CRAB; RADIONUCLIDE; SALTMARSH; TOPOGRAPHY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141614741     PISSN: 00222402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1357/002224003322201232     Document Type: Article

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