Relative importance of habitat selection and predation for the distribution of blue crab megalopae and young juveniles

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 308, Issue , 2006, Pages 165-181

  Moksnes, Per Olav ^a,b   Heck Jr , Kenneth L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cage artifacts; Callinectes sapidus; Migration; Nursery habitats; Oysters; Palaemonetes sp.; Post settlement mortality; Seagrass; Settlement collectors; Xanthid crab

Indexed keywords

CRAB; HABITAT SELECTION; PREDATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EURYPANOPEUS; HALODULE WRIGHTII; HALOPHILA; OSTREIDAE; PALAEMONETES; XANTHIDAE;

EID: 33644980025     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps308165     Document Type: Article

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