Secondary dispersal of early juvenile blue crabs within a wind-driven estuary

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1982-1995

  Reyns, Nathalie B ^a,c   Eggleston, David B ^a   Luettich Jr , Richard A ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; CRAB; DISPERSAL; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; HYDRODYNAMICS; RECRUITMENT; TRANSPORT PROCESS; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; PAMLICO SOUND; UNITED STATES;

CALLINECTES SAPIDUS;

EID: 33749504157     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.5.1982     Document Type: Article

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