Incorporating space into models of the Chesapeake Bay blue crab population

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 567-588

  Miller, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRAB; FECUNDITY; GROWTH; LIFE HISTORY; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

UNITED STATES;

CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 0142071062     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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