Predators of juvenile blue crabs outside of refuge habitats in lower Chesapeake Bay

Estuaries

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 759-764

  Moody, Kirt E ^a,b  

^a MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Mathematics and Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNIBALISM; CRAB; JUVENILE; NURSERY GROUND; PREDATION;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES;

CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); SPHOEROIDES MACULATUS; TETRAODONTIDAE;

EID: 0041425099     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02711986     Document Type: Article

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