Invertebrate Communities of Low-Salinity Wetlands: Overview and Comparison between Phragmites and Typha Marshes Within the Hudson River Estuary

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 575-584

  Yozzo, David J ^a   Osgood, David T ^b  

^a HDR Engineering   (United States)

^b ALBRIGHT COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Benthic macroinvertebrates; Hudson River; Phragmites; Typha

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MARSH; SALINITY; STAND STRUCTURE; TAXONOMY; VEGETATION TYPE; WETLAND;

HUDSON ESTUARY; UNITED STATES;

INVERTEBRATA; PHRAGMITES; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; TYPHA; TYPHA ANGUSTIFOLIA;

EID: 84876882517     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-012-9543-6     Document Type: Article

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