Partitioning loss rates of early juvenile blue crabs from seagrass habitats into mortality and emigration

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 371-391

  Etherington, Lisa L ^a,c   Eggleston, David B ^a   Stockhausen, William T ^b,d  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMIGRATION; LARVAL SETTLEMENT; MORTALITY; RECRUITMENT; SEAGRASS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HALOPHILA; PORTUNIDAE;

EID: 0142071083     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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