Estimates of planktonic larval mortality using the marine gastropods Crepidula fornicata and C. plana

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 344, Issue , 2007, Pages 107-118

  Pechenik, Jan A ^a   Levine, Stephen H ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

Crepidula spp.; Larvae; Larval mortality

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; GASTROPOD; GROWTH RATE; LARVA; MORTALITY; PLANKTON; PREDATION;

CREPIDULA; CREPIDULA FORNICATA; CREPIDULA PLANA; GASTROPODA;

EID: 34748815177     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps06887     Document Type: Article

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