Utilization of a citizen monitoring protocol to assess the structure and function of natural and stabilized fringing salt marshes in North Carolina

Wetlands Ecology and Management

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 97-118

  Currin, Carolyn A ^a   Delano, Priscilla C ^a   Valdes Weaver, Lexia M ^a  

^a NOAA Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen monitoring; Fish utilization; Fringing marsh; Restoration; Salt marsh; Shoreline stabilization; Sill; Spartina alterniflora

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CRUSTACEAN; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; ORGANIC MATTER; SALTMARSH; SEAGRASS;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PALAEMONETES VULGARIS; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 40049091518     PISSN: 09234861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11273-007-9059-1     Document Type: Article

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