Nekton use of regularly-flooded salt-marsh cordgrass habitat in North Carolina, USA
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Inter-Research Science Center in Marine Ecology Progress Series
- Vol. 56 (1-2), 111-118
- https://doi.org/10.3354/meps056111
Abstract
Species composition, numbers and biomass of the nekton community on a regularly-flooded Spartina marsh near Beaufort, North Carolina, USA, was estimated for 1 yr using modified 10 m block nets. Thirty-five fish species dominated by mummichog Fundulus heteroclitus, spot Leiostomus xanthurus and pinfish Lagodon rhomboides were captured from the marsh surface. Numbers were greatest in April (1300 per 10 m of marsh edge); biomass was greatest in September (900 g per 10 m). Stream Order 1 (rivulet) marsh was occupied by fewer species, but contained greater numbers and biomass than Stream Order 3 (channel) marsh.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
- Food, Predation Risk, and Microhabitat Selection in a Marsh Fish AssemblageEcology, 1988
- Use of Tidal Freshwater Marshes by Fishes and Macrofaunal Crustaceans along a Marsh Stream-Order GradientEstuaries, 1987
- The Flume Net: A Quantitative Method for Sampling Fishes and Macrocrustaceans on Tidal Marsh SurfacesEstuaries, 1986
- Temporal factors influencing killifish abundance and recruitment in Gulf of Mexico salt marshesEstuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 1986
- Densities of Penaeus aztecus, Penaeus setiferus, and Other Natant Macrofauna in a Texas Salt MarshEstuaries, 1984
- Use of Oligohaline Marshes by Fishes and Macrofaunal Crustaceans in North CarolinaEstuaries, 1984
- Fish-Nursery Use in Georgia Salt-Marsh Estuaries: The Influence of Springtime Freshwater ConditionsTransactions of the American Fisheries Society, 1984
- Comparative ecology of nekton residing in a tidal creek and adjacent seagrass meadow, community composition and structureMarine Ecology Progress Series, 1983
- Intertidal Vegetation and Commercial Yields of Penaeid ShrimpTransactions of the American Fisheries Society, 1977