Behaviour controls post-settlement dispersal by the juvenile bivalves Austrovenus stutchburyi and Macomona liliana

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 306, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 51-74

  Lundquist, Carolyn J ^a   Pilditch, Conrad A ^b   Cummings, Vonda J ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bedload transport; Byssus drifting; Flume; Infaunal bivalve; Post settlement dispersal

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; DISPERSAL; FLOW VELOCITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOFT-BOTTOM ENVIRONMENT; SUBSTRATE;

AUSTROVENUS; BIVALVIA; DONACIDAE; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 2642542701     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2003.12.020     Document Type: Article

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