• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-01-30T08:27:31.000+00:00

We used data from 1984 samples taken approximately monthly over 11 yrs (1982 to 1993) with a drop trap sampler that sampled an area of 2.6 m2 to quantify and compare nekton densities along...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2017-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Terracing uses existing bottom sediments to form terraces or ridges at marsh elevation and the intertidal zone is planted with marsh vegetation. This study examined the habitat value of terracing...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2016-11-23T00:00:00.000+00:00

This data contains fish and invertebrate counts, weights, and measurements important to identify and describe the relationship between fishery productivity and the coastal environment....

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-05-15T19:15:56.000+00:00

Densities of juvenile fishery species and other animals (all generally 100 mm total length) were summarized for shallow estuarine areas along coastal Texas and Louisiana. The purpose was to...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2018-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

We compared nekton use of Vallisneria americana Michx. (submerged aquatic vegetation, SAV) with marsh shoreline vegetation and subtidal nonvegetated bottom (SNB) using a 1-m2 drop sampler in the...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2026-01-28T00:00:00.000+00:00

This dataset includes collection locations associated with sites sampled within the nearshore waters of Duluth, Wisconsin in Lake Superior. Site information data was collected by a series of...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-05-15T19:15:56.000+00:00

We examined the distribution of nekton across the marsh landscape using a 1-m2 drop sampler to compare nekton densities across three different salinity zones (intermediate, brackish, saline),...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2019-08-08T00:00:00.000+00:00

Okeanos Explorer (EX1902): 2019 Field Season Shakedown (EK60). The expedition will commence on May 12, 2019 in Pascagoula, Mississippi and conclude on May 24, 2019 in Key West, Florida. Operations...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2019-08-08T00:00:00.000+00:00

Okeanos Explorer (EX1902): 2019 Field Season Shakedown (EM302). The expedition will commence on May 12, 2019 in Pascagoula, Mississippi and conclude on May 24, 2019 in Key West, Florida....

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2005-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Nekton in the northern Gulf of Mexico often depend on marsh habitat and estuarine nursery areas during their life history, but patterns of habitat use and the underlying processes that drive these...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-02-29T00:00:00.000+00:00

Study compared densities of nekton, benthos, and seagrass among newly deposited dredged sediments and nearby and distant natural seagrass sites over a three year period. Recovery of seagrass and...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2016-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

During July and October 1988, a total of 42 samples were collected in salt marsh habitats of the Caminada Bay system near Grand Isle, Louisiana to evaluate the use of the marsh surface by aquatic...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2018-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

The effect of salinity on utilization of shallow-water nursery habitats by aquatic fauna was assessed in San Antonio Bay, Texas. Overall, 272 samples were collected in a variety of marsh,...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-05-15T19:15:56.000+00:00

Samples were collected from October 15, 1985 through June 12, 1987 in emergent marsh and non-vegetated habitats throughout the Lavaca Bay system to characterize usage of saline coastal and...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-05-15T19:16:01.000+00:00

Salt marsh habitats along the shoreline of Halls Lake are threatened by wave erosion, but the reconstruction of barrier islands to reduce this erosion will modify or destroy nonvegetated habitats...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2018-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Measured fine-scale distributions of nekton on the vegetated marsh surface using drop samplers and utilized these patterns to estimate population size. Natant decapod crustaceans were most...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2018-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Densities of nekton were measured in three created salt marshes to examine habitat development rate. All three marshes were created from dredged material from the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway....

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-05-15T19:16:01.000+00:00

Between May 5, 1993 and September 19, 1994, we collected quantitative 1-m2 area drop samples and measured a variety of habitat attributes using field surveys and aerial photography to characterize...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-04-01T17:16:21.000+00:00

During May 1987, and May-June and September 1988, a total of 80 inner and outer marsh samples were collected in the Alligator Point salt marsh of Chocolate Bay within the Galveston Bay estuary...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-04-01T17:16:21.000+00:00

Sampled marshes and ponds along two transects within the intermediate and brackish marsh zones of Breton Sound, Louisiana, from May 7-11, 2001. Sampling followed several planned releases of...

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