Responses of estuarine crab megalopae to pressure, salinity and light: Implications for flood-tide transport

Marine Biology

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 391-400

  Tankersley, R A ^a   McKelvey, L M ^a   Forward Jr , R B ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUE CRAB; ESTUARINE ORGANISMS; FIDDLER CRAB; LARVAL TRANSPORT; LIGHT EFFECT; LIGHT EFFECTS; MEGALOPAE; PRESSURE EFFECT; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SALINITY; SALINITY EFFECTS;

CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; DECAPODA; UCA;

EID: 0029414597     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: 14321793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00350871     Document Type: Article

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