Soft-sediment recruitment dynamics of early blue crab stages in Mississippi sound

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 393-408

  Rakocinski, Chet F ^a   Perry, Harriet M ^a   Abney, Michael A ^a,b   Larsen, Kirsten M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRAB; RECRUITMENT; SOFT-BOTTOM ENVIRONMENT;

GULF OF MEXICO;

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

EID: 0142102664     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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