Geographic Variability in Salt Marsh Flooding Patterns may Affect Nursery Value for Fishery Species

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 501-514

  Minello, Thomas J ^a   Rozas, Lawrence P ^b   Baker, Ronald ^a,c  

^a NOAA Fisheries Service Galveston Laboratory   (United States)

^b NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Service/SEFSC   (United States)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blue crab; Nekton; Penaeid shrimp; Spartina alterniflora; Tidal hydrology

Indexed keywords

CRAB; FLOODING; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HABITAT SELECTION; JUVENILE; NURSERY GROUND; SALTMARSH; SHRIMP FISHERY; TIDAL CYCLE;

UNITED STATES;

CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PENAEIDAE; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 84857653908     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-011-9463-x     Document Type: Article

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