Interannual and long-term variation in the nearshore fish community of the mesohaline Hudson River estuary

Estuaries

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 659-669

  Hurst, Thomas P ^a,c   McKown, Kim A ^b   Conover, David O ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION   (United States)

^c NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ESTUARY; FISH;

HUDSON ESTUARY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ALOSA; ALOSA AESTIVALIS; ALOSA SAPIDISSIMA; CLUPEA HARENGUS; MENIDIA; MENIDIA MENIDIA; MORONE; MORONE AMERICANA; MORONE SAXATILIS;

EID: 4344625013     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02907651     Document Type: Article

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