The fish assemblage of the intertidal salt marsh creeks in North Bull Island, Dublin Bay: Seasonal and tidal changes in composition, distribution and abundance

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 588, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 213-224

  Koutsogiannopoulou, Violetta ^a   Wilson, James G ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Community structure; Fish assemblage; North Bull Island; Salt marsh habitat

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; HYDRODYNAMICS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TIDES;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; FISH ASSEMBLAGE; NORTH BULL ISLAND; SALT MARSH HABITATS;

BIODIVERSITY;

CHLOROPHYLL A; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRUSTACEAN; FINFISH; GUILD; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERCIFORM; SALINITY; SALTMARSH; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; WATER TEMPERATURE;

COUNTY DUBLIN; DUBLIN BAY; EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; LEINSTER; NORTH BULL ISLAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANOSTRACA; CHELON LABROSUS; CRANGON CRANGON; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DICENTRARCHUS LABRAX; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; GOBIIDAE; MUGILIDAE; PALAEMONETES VARIANS; PLATICHTHYS FLESUS; PLEURONECTOIDEI; POMATOSCHISTUS MICROPS;

EID: 34547557656     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-007-0664-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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