Fish utilization of a salt marsh intertidal creek in the Yangtze River estuary, China

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 73, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 844-852

  Jin, Binsong ^a   Fu, Cuizhang ^a   Zhong, Junsheng ^b   Li, Bo ^a   Chen, Jiakuan ^a   Wu, Jihua ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

creek; diel; fish community; habitats; salt marsh; temporal variation

Indexed keywords

HABITAT; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; NURSERY GROUND; PERCIFORM; SALTMARSH; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YANGTZE ESTUARY;

GOBIIDAE; LATEOLABRAX MACULATUS; LIZA HAEMATOCHEILUS; PISCES;

EID: 34249068875     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2007.03.025     Document Type: Article

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