Does Estuary Restoration Design Alter the Fine Scale Movements of Gray Smoothhounds (Mustelus californicus) in Southern California?

Freedman, Ryan; Espinoza, Mario; Voss, Kelley M.; Farrugia, Thomas; Whitcraft, Christine R.; Lowe, Christopher G.

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Does Estuary Restoration Design Alter the Fine Scale Movements of Gray Smoothhounds (Mustelus californicus) in Southern California?

2017
By Freedman, Ryan ; Espinoza, Mario ; Voss, Kelley M. ; ...

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Bulletin, Southern California Academy of Sciences
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Freedman, Ryan ; Espinoza, Mario ; Voss, Kelley M. ; Farrugia, Thomas ; Whitcraft, Christine R. ; Lowe, Christopher G.
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NOS (National Ocean Service) ; ONMS (Office of National Marine Sanctuaries)
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Restored estuaries in southern California are limited in size and shape by fragmentation from human development, which can in turn restrict habitat use. Thus, it is important to assess how habitat design affects how fish use restored estuaries. Acoustic telemetry tracking from prior studies revealed that Gray Smoothhounds (Mustelus californicus) used primarily the eelgrass ecotone and warm interior waters in Bolsa Chica Full Tidal Basin (BCFTB), a 1.48 km2 open-format marine dominated estuary. In this study, M. californicus utilized the Channel in Huntington Beach Wetlands Complex (HBWC), a smaller creek estuary. The Channel had more eelgrass than other available habitats but was also the coolest microhabitat, with temperatures below what M. californicus was found to select in BCFTB.
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Bulletin, Southern California Academy of Sciences, 116(2), 88-97
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https://doi.org/10.3160/soca-116-02-88-97.1
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0038-3872 ; 2162-4534
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Southern California Academy of Sciences
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