Oyster-sea nettle interdependence and altered control within the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 776-784

  Breitburg, Denise L ^a   Fulford, Richard S ^a,b  

^a SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; JELLYFISH; MOLLUSC; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATION;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CHRYSAORA QUINQUECIRRHA; CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA; CTENOPHORA (COELENTERATES); MNEMIOPSIS LEIDYI; OSTREIDAE; RUMEX;

EID: 33751078621     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02786528     Document Type: Article

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