Dissolved oxygen dynamics in salt marsh pools and its potential impacts on fish assemblages

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 258, Issue , 2003, Pages 223-232

  Smith, Kelly J ^a   Able, Kenneth W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissolved oxygen; Killifishes; Pools; Salt marshes; Silversides; Young of the year

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ICHTHYOFAUNA; POOL; SALTMARSH; TOLERANCE;

NEW JERSEY; UNITED STATES;

CYPRINODON VARIEGATUS; CYPRINODONTIDAE; FUNDULUS HETEROCLITUS; ICHTHYOFAUNA; LUCANIA PARVA; MENIDIA BERYLLINA; MENIDIA MENIDIA; PISCES; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 0141673481     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps258223     Document Type: Article

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