Essential fish habitat and wetland restoration success: A tier III approach to the biochemical condition of common mummichog Fundulus heteroclitus in common reed Phragmites australis- and smooth cordgrass Spartina alterniflora-dominated salt marshes

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1011-1022

  Weinstein, Michael P ^a   Litvin, Steven Y ^b   Guida, Vincent G ^c  

^a MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biochemical condition; Essential fish habitat; F. heteroclitus; Salt marshes

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ALLOMETRY; BENTHOS; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CYPRINID; GRASS; HABITAT RESTORATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; LIPID; MACROPHYTE; MICROALGA; OVERWINTERING; PHYTOPLANKTON; PROTEIN; REEDBED; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SALTMARSH; STABLE ISOTOPE; SURVIVAL; TROPHIC STRUCTURE; WATER MASS; WETLAND MANAGEMENT;

FUNDULIDAE; FUNDULUS HETEROCLITUS; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; SPARTINA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 70350075838     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-009-9185-5     Document Type: Article

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