Limited transport and recolonization potential in shallow tidal estuaries

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 386-395

  Lundquist, Carolyn J ^a   Thrush, Simon F ^a   Oldman, John W ^a   Senior, Alastair K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; LARVAL TRANSPORT; RECOLONIZATION; RECRUITMENT;

BIVALVIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTROPODA; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 2142726017     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2004.49.2.0386     Document Type: Article

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