Fate of fish production in a seasonally flooded saltmarsh

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 327, Issue , 2006, Pages 267-277

  Stevens, Philip W ^a,b,c   Montague, Clay L ^a   Sulak, Kenneth J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c FISH AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Outwelling hypothesis; Saltmarsh impoundment; Trophic relay; Wading birds

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BIRD; FISH; INVERTEBRATE; PREDATION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SALTMARSH;

AVES; INVERTEBRATA; PISCES;

EID: 33846425725     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps327267     Document Type: Article

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