Ecology of Buzzards Bay : an estuarine profile ecologyofbuzzard00howe Year: 1996 62 BIOLOGICAL REPORT 31 resident species are associated with the marsh throughout their life cycles. The most abundant of these, the Atlantic silverside (Fig. ), lives only 1 year, and the relatively few that survive the winter by migrating into deeper waters return to spawn in spring. Mummichogs (Fig. ) live several years, surviving the winter by residing in the bottom of creeks or marsh pools, often in the more brackish upper reaches of the marsh. The striped killifish on the other hand winters in the l
Ecology of Buzzards Bay : an estuarine profile ecologyofbuzzard00howe Year: 1996 62 BIOLOGICAL REPORT 31 resident species are associated with the marsh throughout their life cycles. The most abundant of these, the Atlantic silverside (Fig. ), lives only 1 year, and the relatively few that survive the winter by migrating into deeper waters return to spawn in spring. Mummichogs (Fig. ) live several years, surviving the winter by residing in the bottom of creeks or marsh pools, often in the more brackish upper reaches of the marsh. The striped killifish on the other hand winters in the lower sandier reaches of the marsh during the winter months. These latter species utilize plants and animals in their diets, feed- ing on algae that lives on the surface of the marsh, but obtaining higher quality food through the con- sumption of eggs of other species like the horse- shoe crab, small bivalves like Gemma gemma, and other invertebrates. m Fig. The silversides (Menidia menidia). Photo by J. Teal.
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