Autecological effects of habitat alteration: Trophic changes in mangrove marsh fish as a consequence of marsh impoundment

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 371, Issue , 2008, Pages 233-242

  Kemp, Stanley J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autecology; Habitat alteration; Life history; Mangrove food webs; Poecillia latipinna; Stable isotope; Trophic differences

Indexed keywords

AUTECOLOGY; BODY SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYPRINID; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; IMPOUNDMENT; INTERPOPULATION VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY; MANGROVE; MARSH; MOSQUITO; STABLE ISOTOPE; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; INDIAN RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA LATIPINNA;

EID: 57849127657     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07641     Document Type: Article

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