Submersed vegetation as habitat for invertebrates in the Hudson River estuary

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 253-264

  Strayer, David L ^a   Malcom, Heather M ^a  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPOD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EARTHWORM; EPIPHYTE; FLY; GASTROPOD; HABITAT TYPE; MACROBENTHOS; MACROINVERTEBRATE; POPULATION DENSITY; SUBMERGED VEGETATION;

HUDSON ESTUARY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AMPHIPODA; ANNELIDA; CHIRONOMIDAE; GASTROPODA; HYDROZOA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 34250841696     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02700168     Document Type: Article

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