Dynamics of early juvenile winter flounder predation risk on a North West Atlantic estuarine nursery ground

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 328, Issue , 2006, Pages 249-265

  Manderson, John P ^a   Pessutti, Jeffrey ^a   Shaheen, Patricia ^b   Juanes, Francis ^c  

^a NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b WAGNER COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Essential fish habitat; Nursery habitat dynamics; Predation risk

Indexed keywords

FISH; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HABITAT TYPE; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); NAVESINK RIVER; NEW JERSEY; NORTH AMERICA; SANDY HOOK BAY; UNITED STATES;

CYNOSCION REGALIS; MORONE; MORONE SAXATILIS; PARALICHTHYS; PARALICHTHYS DENTATUS; PLEURONECTOIDEI; POMATOMUS SALTATRIX; PRIONOTUS EVOLANS; PSEUDOPLEURONECTES AMERICANUS; TRIGLIDAE;

EID: 33846554264     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps328249     Document Type: Article

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