Effect of wind and tidal advection on distribution patterns of rock crab Cancer irroratus megalopae in Block Island Sound, Rhode Island

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 152, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 217-225

  Clancy, Michael ^a   Cobb, J Stanley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Advection; Cancer irroratus; Decapod; Numerical hydrodynamic model; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; LARVAL TRANSPORT; MEGALOPA; MEGALOPS; ROCK CRAB; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

BLOCK ISLAND SOUND; RHODE ISLAND; USA;

CANCER IRRORATUS; CANCER PAGURUS; DECAPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; MEGALOPS;

EID: 0030840993     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps152217     Document Type: Article

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