Sea scallop mass mortality in a Marine Protected Area

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 349, Issue , 2007, Pages 151-158

  Stokesbury, Kevin D E ^a   Harris, Bradley P ^a   Marino II, Michael C ^a   Nogueira, Jacob I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Georges Bank; Marine Protected Area; Mass mortality; Placopecten magellanicus; Sea scallop; Video survey

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; MARINE PARK; MASS MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURVEY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GEORGES BANK; GREAT SOUTH CHANNEL; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

PECTINIDAE; PLACOPECTEN MAGELLANICUS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 36949012747     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07113     Document Type: Article

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