Circatidal activity rhythms in ovigerous blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus: Implications for ebb-tide transport during the spawning migration

Marine Biology

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 67-76

  Forward Jr , R B ^a   Tankersley, R A ^b   Pochelon, P N ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CRAB; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; MIGRATION; SPAWNING; TIDAL CYCLE; VERTICAL MIGRATION;

CALLINECTES; CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA TAXON); DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; PORTUNIDAE;

EID: 0037779076     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-002-0923-5     Document Type: Article

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