Habitat associations of estuarine species: Comparisons of intertidal mudflat, seagrass (Zostera marina), and oyster (Crassostrea gigas) habitats

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1150-1160

  Hosack, Geoffrey R ^a,c   Dumbauld, Brett R ^b,d   Ruesink, Jennifer L ^a   Armstrong, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLEXITY; CRAB; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HABITAT TYPE; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; MUDFLAT; REFUGIUM; SEAGRASS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

CANCER MAGISTER; CRASSOSTREA GIGAS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; OPHIODON ELONGATUS; OSTREIDAE; PAROPHRYS VETULA; ZOSTERA MARINA;

EID: 34547579651     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02781816     Document Type: Article

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