Restoration trajectories and food web linkages in San Francisco Bay's estuarine marshes: A manipulative translocation experiment

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 351, Issue , 2007, Pages 65-76

  Howe, Emily R ^a   Simenstad, Charles A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Estuarine marshes; Food web; Ischadium demissum; Mussels; Restoration; San francisco bay

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FOOD WEB; MARSH; MEASUREMENT METHOD; TRANSLOCATION;

CALIFORNIA; NAPA RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES;

ISCHADIUM; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 38349044016     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07120     Document Type: Article

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