Evaluation of Long-Term Response of Intertidal Creek Nekton to Phragmites australis (Common Reed) Removal in Oligohaline Delaware Bay Salt Marshes

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 772-779

  Kimball, Matthew E ^a,b   Able, Kenneth W ^b   Grothues, Thomas M ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intertidal creek; Nekton; Oligohaline; Phragmites australis; Restoration; Salt marsh

Indexed keywords

GRASS; HABITAT RESTORATION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; NEKTON; PERENNIAL PLANT; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SALTMARSH; WATERSHED;

DELAWARE BAY; UNITED STATES;

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

EID: 77956303604     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00543.x     Document Type: Article

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