Stage-structured matrix modeling and suggestions for management of Atlantic horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, populations on Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 685-698

  Grady, Sara P ^a,b   Valiela, Ivan ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY MARINE PROGRAM   (United States)

^b North and South Rivers Watershed Association   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRAB FISHERY; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHERY MODELING; HARVESTING; MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE;

BARNSTABLE HARBOR; CAPE COD; MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH AMERICA; PLEASANT BAY; STAGE HARBOR; UNITED STATES;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); LIMULUS; LIMULUS AMOEBOCYTE; LIMULUS POLYPHEMUS; MEROSTOMATA;

EID: 33749619151     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02784293     Document Type: Article

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