The role of commercial digging of mudflats as an agent for change of infaunal intertidal populations

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 49-61

  Brown, B ^a   Herbert Wilson Jr , W ^a  

^a Health Services and Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Baitworms; Clams; Commercial digging; Disturbance; Heteromastus filiformis; Soft sediment community; Streblospio benedicti; Tharyx acutus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAUNA; NONHUMAN; POLYCHAETA; POPULATION DENSITY; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES;

BIVALVIA; EXOGONE HEBES; HETEROMASTUS FILIFORMIS; HYDROBIA TOTTENI; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA); POLYCHAETA; SCOLOPLOS FRAGILIS; STREBLOSPIO BENEDICTI; THARYX ACUTUS;

EID: 0343907276     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0981(97)00067-1     Document Type: Article

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