Disturbance and recovery of salt marsh arthropod communities following BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  McCall, Brittany D ^a   Pennings, Steven C ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD COMMUNITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EXPOSURE; INSECT; INVERTEBRATE; LITTORARIA; MARINE SPECIES; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; OIL SPILL; PLANT; SALT MARSH; SAMPLING; SNAIL; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA; SPIDER; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; WATER POLLUTION; ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; DISASTER; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; POACEAE; SEA; SOIL; WETLAND;

ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTROPODA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; LITTORARIA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; DISASTERS; ECOSYSTEM; MEXICO; OCEANS AND SEAS; PETROLEUM POLLUTION; POACEAE; SOIL; WETLANDS;

EID: 84857859363     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032735     Document Type: Article

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