Movement and wave dislodgment of mussels on a wave-exposed rocky shore

Veliger

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 273-277

  Hunt, Heather L ^a   Scheibling, Robert E ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYTILUS EDULIS; MYTILUS TROSSULUS;

EID: 0036775917     PISSN: 00423211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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