A habitat-use model to determine essential fish habitat for juvenile brown shrimp (Farfantepenaeus aztecus) in Galveston Bay, Texas

Fishery Bulletin

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 264-277

  Clark, Randall D ^a   Christensen, John D ^a   Monaco, Mark E ^a   Caldwell, Philip A ^b   Matthews, Geoffrey A ^b   Minello, Thomas J ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NOAA Fisheries Service Galveston Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTACEAN; HABITAT USE; JUVENILE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; POPULATION DENSITY;

GALVESTON BAY; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); FARFANTEPENAEUS; FARFANTEPENAEUS AZTECUS; PENAEIDAE;

EID: 2342434267     PISSN: 00900656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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