Physical and chemical changes in the foreshore of an estuarine beach: Implications for viability and development of horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus eggs

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 355, Issue , 2008, Pages 209-218

  Jackson, Nancy L ^a   Smith, David R ^b   Nordstrom, Karl F ^c  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LEETOWN SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Delaware Bay; Egg development; Estuarine foreshore; Horseshoe crab; Sediment activation

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BEACH; EGG; EGG DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; VIABILITY; WATER TABLE;

DELAWARE BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

LIMULUS; LIMULUS POLYPHEMUS; MEROSTOMATA;

EID: 41349111331     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07211     Document Type: Article

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