Blue crab larval dispersion and retention in the Mississippi Bight: Testing the hypothesis

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 331-346

  Perry, Harriet ^a   Johnson, Donald R ^b   Larsen, Kirsten ^a   Trigg, Christine ^a   Vukovich, Fred ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CIRCULATION; DISPERSION; LARVA; LARVAL SETTLEMENT; RETENTION;

GULF OF MEXICO;

CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 0142134393     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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