Larval mortality during export to the sea in the fiddler crab Uca minax

Marine Biology

Volumn 152, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1283-1291

  Brodie, Renae J ^a   Styles, Richard ^b   Borgianini, Stephen ^b   Godley, Jenice ^b   Butler, Khayree ^c  

^a MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRAB; LABORATORY METHOD; LARVA; LARVAL TRANSPORT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MORTALITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SALINITY; SURVIVAL;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CAROLINA; GREATER ANTILLES; NORTH AMERICA; PEE DEE RIVER; PUERTO RICO; UNITED STATES;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; UCA MINAX;

EID: 35348912450     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-007-0777-y     Document Type: Article

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