Organism response to habitat patchiness: Species and habitat- dependent recruitment of decapod crustaceans

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 223, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 111-132

  Eggleston, David B ^a   Etherington, Lisa L ^a   Elis, Ward E ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Callinectes sapidus; Crassostrea virginica; Fragmentation; Grass shrimp; Habitat selection; Palaemonidae; Patchiness; Recruitment; SLOSS; Zostera marina

Indexed keywords

BLUE CRAB; GRASS SHRIMP; HABITAT TYPE; OYSTER REEF; PATCH SIZE; REFUGE; SEAGRASS BED; SETTLEMENT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; CRUSTACEA; ECOLOGY; ESTUARY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; OYSTER; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATOR; SHRIMP; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

USA, NORTH CAROLINA, BACK SOUND;

CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; DECAPODA; PALAEMONETES INTERMEDIUS; PALAEMONETES PUGIO; PALAEMONETES VULGARIS; PALAEOMONETES PUGIO; PALAEOMONETES VULGARIS;

EID: 0032076525     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0981(97)00154-8     Document Type: Article

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