Environmentally-controlled, density-dependent secondary dispersal in a local estuarine crab population

Oecologia

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 280-288

  Reyns, Nathalie B ^a   Eggleston, David B ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue crab; Density dependence; Environmental cues; Post settlement emigration

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; CRAB; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; SETTLING BEHAVIOR;

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

CALLINECTES; CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; DECAPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HALOPHILA; INVERTEBRATA; PORTUNIDAE;

EID: 3843056774     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-004-1581-8     Document Type: Article

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