Abundance of benthic macroinvertebrates in natural and altered estuarine areas.

dc.acquisition-srcen_US
dc.call-noSH11.A335 no. 677 GBAYen_US
dc.contract-noen_US
dc.contributor.authorGilmore, G.en_US
dc.contributor.authorTrent, L.en_US
dc.contributor.otheren_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-15T16:53:06Z
dc.date.available2010-02-15T16:53:06Z
dc.date.issued1974en_US
dc.degreeen_US
dc.description13 p.en_US
dc.description-otheren_US
dc.description.abstractThe abundance of benthic macroinvertebrates during March-October 1969 in West Bay, Texas, was compared between a natural marsh area, an adjacent marsh area altered by channelization, bulkheading, and filling, and an open bay area. Animals representing four phyla were caught. Abundance indices (areas combined) of the four groups in terms of numbers were 66.4% polychaetes, 29.6% crustaceans, 2.5% pelecypods, and 1.5% nemerteans; volumes were 44.0% polychaetes, 40.8% pelecypods, 10.7% nemerteans, and 4.4% crustaceans. When all organisms were combined, they were slightly more abundant numerically and over twice as abundant volumetrically in the marsh than in the canals and were least abundant in the bay. In general, the seasonal abundance of polychaetes and nemerteans varied little during the study, whereas crustaceans and pelecypods were abundant only during the spring and early summer.en_US
dc.description.urihttp://gbic.tamug.edu/request.htmen_US
dc.geo-codeWest Bayen_US
dc.geo-codeGalveston Bayen_US
dc.historyAugust 1992; November 1994en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1969.3/19658
dc.latitudeen_US
dc.locationGBIC Collection file roomen_US
dc.longitudeen_US
dc.notesen_US
dc.placeSeattle, Washingtonen_US
dc.publisherU.S. National Marine Fisheries Serviceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries1900.00en_US
dc.relation.urien_US
dc.scaleen_US
dc.seriesNOAA Technical Report NMFS-SSRF-677en_US
dc.subjectbenthosen_US
dc.subjectmarine invertebratesen_US
dc.subjectinvertebrate zoologyen_US
dc.subjectsalt marshesen_US
dc.subjectabundanceen_US
dc.subjectmarine wormsen_US
dc.subjectmarine crustaceansen_US
dc.titleAbundance of benthic macroinvertebrates in natural and altered estuarine areas.en_US
dc.typeBooken_US
dc.universityen_US
dc.vol-issueen_US

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