Seasonal changes in community composition and trophic structure of fish populations of five salt marshes along the Essex coastline, United Kingdom

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 247-256

  Green, Benjamin C ^a   Smith, David J ^a   Earley, Sarah E ^a   Hepburn, Leanne J ^a   Underwood, Graham J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

community composition; fish; Great Britain; salt marshes; seasonality; spatial variations

Indexed keywords

CLUPEOID; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DOMINANCE; GRAVIMETRY; HABITAT LOSS; JUVENILE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NURSERY GROUND; OMNIVORY; PERCIFORM; PLANKTIVORE; SALTMARSH; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; STOMACH CONTENT; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

ENGLAND; ESSEX [ENGLAND]; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

CLUPEA HARENGUS; CLUPEIDAE; CRUSTACEA; DICENTRARCHUS LABRAX; POMATOSCHISTUS MICROPS; SERRANIDAE;

EID: 70349820099     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2009.08.008     Document Type: Article

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