A seventeen-year study of the rose star Crossaster papposus population in a coastal bay in southeast Alaska

Marine Biology

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 223-230

  Carlson, H R ^a   Pfister, C A ^b  

^a NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION ECOLOGY;

UNITED STATES;

CHLAMYS RUBIDA; CROSSASTER PAPPOSUS;

EID: 0032975243     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002270050461     Document Type: Article

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