Nekton use of salt marsh

Salt Marsh Nekton (U.S. National Park Service)

Nekton are free-swimming fishes and crustaceans that are vital signs of salt marsh health, along with tidal wetland elevation and vegetation.

Nekton utilization of intertidal salt marsh creeks: Tidal influences in ...

Salt marsh habitats are thought to be critically important to coastal ecosystems, operating as essential habitat for single or multiple life history stages of a ...

Nekton use of marsh-surface habitats in Louisiana (USA) deltaic salt ...

Ser. 1 Published June 17. Nekton use of marsh-surface habitats in. Louisiana (USA) deltaic salt marshes undergoing submergence. Lawrence P. Rozas*, Denise J ...

Nekton Utilization of Tidal Marshes: Literature Review and Introduction

Kneib (1986a) reviewed the role of the mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus) in salt marsh trophic dynamics. This marsh-resident species is ubiquitous in Atlantic ...

Nekton use of regularly-flooded saltmarsh cordgrass habitat in North ...

1989. MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. l Published August 10. Nekton use of regularly-flooded saltmarsh cordgrass habitat in North ...

Nekton Use of Salt Marsh Creeks in the Upper Tejo Estuary - jstor

salt marshes are only flooded for short pe- riods during relatively high spring tides. Nekton use of the intertidal salt marsh areas in Europe is generally ...

Nekton utilization of restored habitat in a Louisiana marsh

Nekton use of marsh-surface habitats in. Louisiana deltaic salt marshes undergoing submergence. Marine Ecology. Progress Series 96:147-157. Sacco, J. N. ...

Seasonal habitat-use patterns of nekton in a tide-restricted and ...

Many New England salt marshes remain tide-restricted or are undergoing tidal restoration. Hydrologic manipulation of salt marshes affects marsh ...

Nekton use of oligohaline Phragmites australis and Spartina ...

alterniflora marshes, regardless of geographic region, provided similar functions for marsh nekton and estuarine finfish communities. However, ...

Nekton Use of Flooded Salt Marsh and an Assessment of Intertidal ...

More transients left the basin following higher tides, but more residents did not. The results demonstrate a wide range of taxonomic and ...

Nutrient subsidies from nekton in salt marsh intertidal creeks - ASLO

Our observations and experiments indicated that movements, feeding, and excretion by fishes and shrimps resulted in subsidies of and to ...

Nekton Use of Salt Marsh, Seagrass, and Nonvegetated Habitats in

Vegetated habitats supported significantly higher densities of most numerically dominant species. Densities of total crustaceans, daggerblade ...

Assessing the Influence of Salt Marsh Enhancement on Nekton ...

Salt marsh enhancement projects may have the benefit of minimizing physical coastal impacts, but enhancement activities are not fully understood ...

Habitat ecology of intertidal nekton in southern New Jersey salt ...

Nekton use of intertidal creeks is controlled by marsh hydroperiod and varies temporally and spatially according to multiple physical and biological factors.

A Meta-analysis of Nekton Responses to Restoration of Tide ...

Differ- ent species and life-history stages of nekton use salt marshes for foraging (Allen et ... “Hydroperiod and Its Influence on Nekton Use of the Salt Marsh: ...

Nekton use of vegetated marsh habitats at different stages of tidal ...

dance of nekton in salt marsh vegetation at high tide more abundant ... Nekton use of regularly flooded salt- marsh cordgrass habitat ...

The Nekton Assemblage of Salt Marsh Pools in a Southeastern ...

Marsh pools are present in estuaries throughout the world and provide valuable habitat for fishes and decapod crustaceans (i.e., nekton). The purpose of our ...

Geographic Variation in Salt Marsh Structure and Function for Nekton

Salt marshes are structured by vegetation characteristics that in turn influence habitat use by nekton (Table 1). Plant zonation along marsh ...

Nekton use of salt marsh, seagrass, and nonvegetated habitats in a ...

This study quantified nekton densities to estimate relative nursery values of Spartina alterniflora salt marsh, seagrass dominated by Ruppia maritima and ...

Quantifying vegetation and nekton response to tidal restoration of a ...

... salt marsh, Middletown, Rhode Island. A before, after, control, impact study design was used, including evaluations of the tide-restricted marsh, the same marsh ...