Spawning densities, egg densities, size structure, and movement patterns of spawning horseshoe crabs, Limulus polyphemus, within four coastal embayments on Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Estuaries

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 296-313

  James Pirri, M J ^a   Tuxbury, K ^b,d   Marino, S ^c,e   Koch, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Audubon Society   (United States)

^c US Fish & Wildlife Service Massachusetts   (United States)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SPAWNING;

CAPE COD; MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GADUS MORHUA; LIMULUS; LIMULUS POLYPHEMUS; MEROSTOMATA; POLYPHEMUS;

EID: 20344367063     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02732863     Document Type: Article

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