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Ichthyofaunal Utilization Of A Man-Made Salt Marsh Creek In Mission Bay, California, 25 Years After Creation, Maria Angst, Drew M. Talley
Ichthyofaunal Utilization Of A Man-Made Salt Marsh Creek In Mission Bay, California, 25 Years After Creation, Maria Angst, Drew M. Talley
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Abstract: Southern California's wetlands are drastically declining due to human activities. Increasingly, marsh restoration and creation are being used to mitigate such losses. This study used minnow traps to resample the ichthyofauna of a created marsh (Crown Point Mitigation Site; CPMS) and an adjacent natural marsh (Kendall Frost) in Mission Bay, California, 26 years following the marsh creation. These data were compared to data collected from 1995-1998, immediately after marsh creation. Fishes trapped included Fundulus parvipinnis, Gillichthys mirabilis, Ctenogobius sagittula, Atherinops affinis, and Mugil cephalus. Species richness and dominance measures were higher in the natural …