Fish assemblage stability over fifty years in the Lake Pontchartrain estuary; comparisons among habitats using canonical correspondence analysis

Estuaries

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 807-817

  O'Connell, Martin T ^a   Cashner, Robert C ^a   Schieble, Christopher S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FISH; HABITAT QUALITY; SAMPLING;

LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN; LOUISIANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ANCHOA; ANCHOA MITCHILLI; ARIUS FELIS; BREVOORTIA; BREVOORTIA PATRONUS; CATFISH; FELIS; LEIOSTOMUS XANTHURUS; MICROPOGONIAS; MICROPOGONIAS UNDULATUS; MYLOPHARODON CONOCEPHALUS; PISCES;

EID: 8544263880     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02912042     Document Type: Article

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