Pre- and post-settlement factors as determinants of juvenile blue crab Callinectes sapidus abundance: Results from the north-central Gulf of Mexico

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 222, Issue , 2001, Pages 163-176

  Heck K L , Jr ^a   Coen, L D ^a   Morgan, S G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue crab; Callinectes sapidus; Post settlement mortality; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CRAB; LARVAL SETTLEMENT; MORTALITY; RECRUITMENT;

CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; DECAPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HYMENACHNE; SAN ANGELO VIRUS;

EID: 0035813994     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps222163     Document Type: Article

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