Habitat use by nekton along a stream-order gradient in a Louisiana estuary

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 572-583

  Granados Dieseldorff, Pablo ^a,b   Baltz, Donald M ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community structure; Decapods; Fish; Hydrology; Juveniles; Morphology; Seine; Subtidal

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CRUSTACEAN; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; FACTOR ANALYSIS; GEOMICROBIOLOGY; HABITAT SELECTION; JUVENILE; MICROHABITAT; MORPHOLOGY; NEKTON; SALTMARSH; SAMPLING; SPACE USE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; TAXONOMY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; GULF OF MEXICO; LOUISIANA; NORTH AMERICA; SEINE RIVER; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE;

CRUSTACEA; PISCES;

EID: 45849135596     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-008-9051-x     Document Type: Article

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