Then and now: A comparison of patterns in blue crab post-larval abundance and post-settlement mortality during the early and late 1990s in the Mobile Bay System

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 435-452

  Spitzer, Patricia M ^a   Heck Jr , Kenneth L ^a,b   Valentine, John F ^a,b  

^a DAUPHIN ISLAND SEA LAB   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CRAB; MORTALITY; SETTLEMENT PATTERN;

UNITED STATES;

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

EID: 0142071066     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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