Habitat restoration as mitigation for lost production at multiple trophic levels

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 264, Issue , 2003, Pages 233-247

  French McCay, Deborah P ^a   Rowe, Jill J ^a  

^a Applied Science Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

'North Cape' oil spill; Food web modeling; Habitat; Natural resource damage assessment; Restoration; Trophic transfer

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FOOD WEB; HABITAT RESTORATION; OIL SPILL; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SALTMARSH; SEAGRASS; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

NORTH AMERICA; RHODE ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

AVES; HALOPHILA; INVERTEBRATA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 1242278272     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps264233     Document Type: Review

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