Using nekton growth as a metric for assessing habitat restoration by marsh terracing.

The article presents a study which evaluates the habitat restoration by marsh terracing using nekton growth in Galveston Bay, Texas. It cites the use of decapod crustaceans for the growth experiments using two methods for the distribution of mesocosms. The study measure the possible relationships of shrimp growth rate and predators using regression analysis to compare the growth rates in crustaceans' biomass recovered from the experimental mesocosms and the environmental variables. The result of the study shows that there is no difference in the growth rates in the treatments of the dagger blade grass shrimp and the blue crab. It adds that the production rate is higher in the terrace fields than in the shallow non-vegetated bottom.