Interannual Recruitment Dynamics for Resident and Transient Marsh Species: Evidence for a Lack of Impact by the Macondo Oil Spill

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Moody, Ryan M ^a   Cebrian, Just ^a,b   Heck, Kenneth L ^a,b  

^a DAUPHIN ISLAND SEA LAB   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEEP SEA; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARY; HABITAT QUALITY; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE HISTORY; NEKTON; NONHUMAN; OIL SPILL; OYSTER; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SALT MARSH; SEA SURFACE WATERS; SEASHORE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SUMMER; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION; WATER CONTAMINATION;

EID: 84874836395     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058376     Document Type: Article

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