Duration and timing of reproduction in decapod crustaceans of the NW Mediterranean continental margin: Is there a general pattern?

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 261, Issue , 2003, Pages 201-216

  Company, Joan B ^a   Sardà, Francisco ^a   Puig, Pere ^a   Cartes, Joan E ^a   Palanques, Albert ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Decapod crustaceans; Deep water and deep sea processes; Life histories; Mass flux; Mediterranean Sea; Reproductive period

Indexed keywords

DEPTH; LIFE HISTORY; REPRODUCTION; SEASONALITY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (NORTHWEST);

CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA; GALATHEIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; MUNIDA; PANDALIDAE; PASIPHAEA; PASIPHAEIDAE; PLESIONIKA; POLYCHELES; POLYCHELES TYPHLOPS; PROCESSA; PROCESSIDAE; TYPHLOPS;

EID: 0242709407     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps261201     Document Type: Article

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