Segregation of palaemonid shrimp along an Everglades estuarine gradient: Do multiple species have similar trophic function?

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 843-861

  McCarthy, Lauren C ^a,b   Loftus, William F ^c   Rehage, Jennifer Schöpf ^d  

^a NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Aquatic Research and Communication LLC   (United States)

^d FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COEXISTENCE; CRUSTACEAN; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRAPPING; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; GULF OF MEXICO; SHARK ESTUARY; UNITED STATES;

CHONDRICHTHYES; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); LEANDER PAULENSIS; PALAEMON; PALAEMON FLORIDANUS; PALAEMONETES; PALAEMONETES INTERMEDIUS; PALAEMONETES PALUDOSUS; PALAEMONETES PUGIO; PALAEMONIDAE;

EID: 84868556524     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: 15536955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5343/bms.2011.1058     Document Type: Article

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