Effects of a Persistent Red Tide (Karenia brevis) Bloom on Community Structure and Species-Specific Relative Abundance of Nekton in a Gulf of Mexico Estuary

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 417-439

  Flaherty, Kerry E ^a   Landsberg, Jan H ^a  

^a FISH AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Estuary; Fish abundance; Florida; Karenia brevis; Nekton community structure; Red tide

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DINOFLAGELLATE; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; ICHTHYOFAUNA; NEKTON; PERCIFORM; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RED TIDE; SALMONID; TOXIC ORGANISM;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

CYNOSCION ARENARIUS; CYNOSCION NEBULOSUS; DINOPHYCEAE; KARENIA BREVIS; SCIAENOPS; SCIAENOPS OCELLATUS;

EID: 79751535140     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-010-9350-x     Document Type: Article

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