Large-scale blue crab recruitment: Linking postlarval transport, post-settlement planktonic dispersal, and multiple nursery habitats

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 204, Issue , 2000, Pages 179-198

  Etherington, L L ^a   Eggleston, D B ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue crab; Density dependence; Hurricanes; Nursery habitats; Post larval dispersal; Post settlement dispersal; Recruitment; Seagrass

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CRAB; DISPERSAL; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; NURSERY GROUND; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RECRUITMENT;

CROATAN-ALBEMARLE-PAMLICO ESTUARY; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; DECAPODA; MYRIOPHYLLUM SPICATUM;

EID: 0034609884     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps204179     Document Type: Article

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