The goals of this project were to census and compare the relative abundance and diversity of the elasmobranch (shark and ray) populations of two northeast South Carolina estuaries. North Inlet and Murrells Inlet are similarly-sized, tidally-dominated, bar-built estuaries with extensive Spartina-lined tidal creeks, differing most strikingly in their degree of human impact. North Inlet is a relatively pristine estuary that has been designated a National Estuarine Research Reserve, whereas Murrells Inlet, 32 km to the north, is a suburbanized estuary (10-50% impervious surfaces in the watershed, Holland et al. 2004), contaminated with polluted stormwater runoff containing high levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and fecal colifor...
Long-term fisheries independent gill net surveys conducted in Texas estuaries from 1975 to 2006 were...
I hypothesize that urbanization Murrells Inlet will affect the total number of elasmobranches presen...
Understanding the ecological factors that regulate elasmobranch abundance in nearshore waters is ess...
Urbanization near estuaries has been shown to affect the growth and survival of juvenile sharks usin...
Although habitat selection is relatively well studied in some elasmobranchs, no field or lab studies...
The shallow coastal waters of the temperate southeastern U.S. are utilized as habitat and nursery gr...
Elkhorn Slough is an estuarine system that provides habitat for several elasmobranch species. During...
As a result of a long-term longline study conducted by Coastal Carolina University, data on the popu...
As the state of non-marine aquatic environments (freshwater and estuarine environments with saliniti...
We conducted a longline survey from 2002 - 2006 in Winyah Bay SC, a 65 km2 partially-mixed coastal p...
Assessments of local shark stocks are vital to understand population trends and their causes. Local ...
Large nekton were compared between two geographically and morphologically similar salt marsh estuari...
Estuaries function as important nursery and foraging habitats for many coastal species, including hi...
Winyah Bay, near Georgetown, S.C., is one of the largest estuaries on the U.S. coast. Despite its si...
Estuaries function as important nursery and foraging habitats for many coastal species, including hi...
Long-term fisheries independent gill net surveys conducted in Texas estuaries from 1975 to 2006 were...
I hypothesize that urbanization Murrells Inlet will affect the total number of elasmobranches presen...
Understanding the ecological factors that regulate elasmobranch abundance in nearshore waters is ess...
Urbanization near estuaries has been shown to affect the growth and survival of juvenile sharks usin...
Although habitat selection is relatively well studied in some elasmobranchs, no field or lab studies...
The shallow coastal waters of the temperate southeastern U.S. are utilized as habitat and nursery gr...
Elkhorn Slough is an estuarine system that provides habitat for several elasmobranch species. During...
As a result of a long-term longline study conducted by Coastal Carolina University, data on the popu...
As the state of non-marine aquatic environments (freshwater and estuarine environments with saliniti...
We conducted a longline survey from 2002 - 2006 in Winyah Bay SC, a 65 km2 partially-mixed coastal p...
Assessments of local shark stocks are vital to understand population trends and their causes. Local ...
Large nekton were compared between two geographically and morphologically similar salt marsh estuari...
Estuaries function as important nursery and foraging habitats for many coastal species, including hi...
Winyah Bay, near Georgetown, S.C., is one of the largest estuaries on the U.S. coast. Despite its si...
Estuaries function as important nursery and foraging habitats for many coastal species, including hi...
Long-term fisheries independent gill net surveys conducted in Texas estuaries from 1975 to 2006 were...
I hypothesize that urbanization Murrells Inlet will affect the total number of elasmobranches presen...
Understanding the ecological factors that regulate elasmobranch abundance in nearshore waters is ess...