Evaluating estuarine habitats using secondary production as a proxy for food web support

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 440, Issue , 2011, Pages 11-25

  Wong, Melisa C ^a,b   Peterson, Charles H ^a   Piehler, Michael F ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Estuarine habitats; Food web support; Habitat value; North Carolina; Restoration; Secondary production; Shoreline stabilization structure

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOGENIC STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; EPIFAUNA; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FOOD WEB; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REEF; SALTMARSH; SEAGRASS MEADOW; SECONDARY PRODUCTION; SHORELINE; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPHIC LEVEL;

NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

OSTREIDAE;

EID: 80055087627     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09323     Document Type: Article

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