Habitat heterogeneity: Importance of salt marsh pools and high marsh surfaces to fish production in two Gulf of Maine salt marshes

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 368, Issue , 2008, Pages 217-230

  MacKenzie, Richard A ^a,b   Dionne, Michele ^a  

^a Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fundulus heteroclitus; Gulf of Maine; High salt marsh; Secondary production

Indexed keywords

GROWTH RATE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HETEROGENEITY; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; SALTMARSH; SECONDARY PRODUCTION; TELEOST;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MAINE;

FUNDULUS HETEROCLITUS; SPARTINA PATENS;

EID: 54549118328     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07560     Document Type: Article

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