Settlement-driven, multiscale demographic patterns of large benthic decapods in the Gulf of Maine

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 241, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 107-136

  Palma, Alvaro T ^a   Steneck, Robert S ^b   Wilson, Carl J ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer borealis; Cancer irroratus; Gulf of Maine; Homarus americanus; Newly settled individuals; Post settlement; Predation; Settlement; Spatial scale; Subtidal; Temporal scale

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CRUSTACEAN; SETTLEMENT PATTERN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; CRAB; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; ESTUARY; FERTILITY; LOBSTER; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PREDATION;

UNITED STATES;

HOMARUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 0033517118     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0981(99)00069-6     Document Type: Article

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