Recruitment and Habitat Use of Early Life Stage Tarpon (Megalops atlanticus) in South Carolina Estuaries

MM Mace, ME Kimball, ER Haffey - Estuaries and Coasts, 2018 - Springer
Our study was designed to examine early life stage tarpon (Megalops atlanticus)
recruitment, habitat use, and residency in coastal environments near the northern limit of …

Summer ichthyoplankton assemblage diversity within a southeastern United States estuary

BW Pfirrmann, ME Kimball, MM Mace, BD Turley - Estuaries and Coasts, 2021 - Springer
We evaluated spatial, short-term, and decadal-scale variability in the summer
ichthyoplankton assemblages within the North Inlet-Winyah Bay estuarine system …

Low-temperature tolerance of juvenile tarpon Megalops atlanticus

MM Mace, ER Haffey, ME Kimball - Environmental Biology of Fishes, 2017 - Springer
The tarpon Megalops atlanticus is a tropical to subtropical species whose pole-ward
distribution is thought to be limited by low water temperatures. In the western north Atlantic …

Juvenile tarpon Megalops atlanticus use of natural and managed marsh habitats in coastal South Carolina

GM Elmo, DP Crane, ME Kimball - Environmental Biology of Fishes, 2021 - Springer
There is a paucity of information on juvenile tarpon Megalops atlanticus habitat use at the
northern edge of its distribution. Therefore, we investigated the timing of recruitment and the …

Overwinter survival, age, and growth of juvenile tarpon (Megalops atlanticus) in a shallow, tidally-restricted habitat in South Carolina

MM Mace, ME Kimball, GM Elmo, DP Crane - Environmental Biology of …, 2020 - Springer
Early life stage tarpon (Megalops atlanticus) have been collected in the western Atlantic
Ocean north of Florida where it has been assumed that individuals migrate from estuarine …

Diet of age-0 tarpon Megalops atlanticus near their northern range limit in the western Atlantic Ocean

MM Mace III, DP Crane, ME Kimball… - … Biology of Fishes, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The Atlantic tarpon Megalops atlanticus is a tropical-subtropical fish that occupies
mangrove and salt marsh habitats during the first year of life. Diet during the first few months …

Swimming abilities of juvenile estuarine fishes: implications for passage at water control structures

ME Kimball, KM Boswell, LP Rozas… - Wetlands Ecology and …, 2018 - Springer
The capability of early life history stage fishes to access nursery habitat within managed salt
marshes is dependent on their ability to negotiate water control structures (WCSs) …

Use of a novel richness-weighted abundance index of age-0 fishes to identify key features for habitat conservation and restoration

DP Crane, KL Kapuscinski, JJ Hutchens Jr - Ecological Indicators, 2020 - Elsevier
Prioritizing sites for conservation or setting goals for enhancement and restoration projects is
often difficult due to limited knowledge about relations between habitat characteristics and …

Effects of Marsh Channelization on Fish and Invertebrate Communities at Little Saint Simons Island, Georgia

EM Cohen-Kivett - 2020 - search.proquest.com
I used effective number of species (ENS) linear models, Morisita's index of similarity, and
generalized linear models to compare seasonal fish and invertebrate species diversity and …