An individual-based modeling approach to spawning-potential per-recruit models: An application to blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) in Chesapeake Bay

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2560-2572

  Bunnell, David B ^a,b   Miller, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRAB; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; MORTALITY; POPULATION MODELING; RECRUITMENT; SPAWNING;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CALLINECTES SAPIDUS;

EID: 31144468509     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/f05-153     Document Type: Article

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