The role of seagrass meadows, mangrove forests, salt marshes and reed beds as nursery areas and food sources for fishes in estuaries

AK Whitfield - Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 2017 - Springer
Each year millions of larval and 0+ juvenile fishes are recruited into estuarine fish
populations around the world. For several decades the roles of littoral aquatic and emergent …

Large-scale historic habitat loss in estuaries and its implications for commercial and recreational fin fisheries

T Stamp, E West, T Robbins, S Plenty… - ICES Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Estuaries provide important nursery and feeding habitat for numerous commercially and
ecologically important fish, however, have been historically subject to substantial habitat …

Context dependence: a conceptual approach for understanding the habitat relationships of coastal marine fauna

M Bradley, I Nagelkerken, R Baker, M Sheaves - Bioscience, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Coastal habitats, such as seagrasses, mangroves, rocky and coral reefs, salt marshes, and
kelp forests, sustain many key fish and invertebrate populations around the globe. Our …

[图书][B] Saltmarsh conservation, management and restoration

JP Doody - 2008 - books.google.com
Coastal habitats provide the link between the land and the sea. They are dynamic, combine
to form ecosystems of great complexity and provide significant areas for wildlife. Their …

A preliminary investigation of the fish food web in the Gironde estuary, France, using dietary and stable isotope analyses

S Pasquaud, P Elie, C Jeantet, I Billy, P Martinez… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2008 - Elsevier
Carbon and Nitrogen stable isotopes and stomach contents analyses were used to
investigate an estuarine fish food web and identify the contribution of these two methods to …

[HTML][HTML] Biodiversity in salt marshes: from patrimonial value to ecosystem functioning. The case study of the Mont-Saint-Michel bay

JC Lefeuvre, P Laffaille, E Feunteun, V Bouchard… - Comptes Rendus …, 2003 - Elsevier
Until 1979, European salt marshes were known only through the inventories of fauna and
especially of flora. On such criteria, the salt marshes of the Mont-Saint-Michel bay (France) …

Habitat–fishery linkages in two major south-eastern Australian estuaries show that the C4 saltmarsh plant Sporobolus virginicus is a significant contributor to fisheries …

V Raoult, TF Gaston, MD Taylor - Hydrobiologia, 2018 - Springer
Estuarine fisheries productivity is dependent upon numerous factors, including the
productivity of primary producers supporting the food web and the transport of organic matter …

Fish assemblages across a vegetation gradient in a restoring tidal freshwater wetland: diets and potential for resource competition

SN Whitley, SM Bollens - Environmental biology of fishes, 2014 - Springer
Marsh habitats have been the focus of recent worldwide restoration efforts due to their
degradation and destruction as a result of human development. We assessed fish resource …

European intertidal marshes: a review of their habitat functioning and value for aquatic organisms

A Cattrijsse, H Hampel - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2006 - int-res.com
Salt marshes form true ecotones between land and sea fauna and flora that have adapted to
an environment that is both aquatic and terrestrial in nature. Despite the extreme and sharp …

Habitat complexity and community composition: relationships between different ecosystem engineers and the associated macroinvertebrate assemblages

MC Sueiro, A Bortolus, E Schwindt - Helgoland Marine Research, 2011 - Springer
Several species of ecosystem engineers inhabiting coastal environments have been
reported structuring different kinds of communities. The magnitude of this influence often …