Abiotic and biotic factors influence the habitat use of an estuarine fish

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 377, Issue , 2009, Pages 263-277

  Bacheler, Nathan M ^a,c   Paramore, Lee M ^b   Buckel, Jeffrey A ^a   Hightower, Joseph E ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Habitat use; Scale; Sciaenops ocellatus; Spatial distribution; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; HABITAT USE; MIGRATORY SPECIES; PERCIFORM; PREY AVAILABILITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

PISCES; SCIAENOPS; SCIAENOPS OCELLATUS;

EID: 62149092515     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07805     Document Type: Article

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