Evidence of habitat structure-generated bottleneck in the recruitment process of the SW Atlantic crab Cyrtograpsus angulatus

Marine Biology

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 259-264

  Mendez Casariego A ^a   Schwindt, E ^b   Iribarne, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b Williams Mystic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL LAGOON; CRAB; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LARVAL SETTLEMENT; MORTALITY; ONTOGENY; RECRUITMENT; REFUGE;

ARGENTINA; CORDOBA [ARGENTINA]; MAR CHIQUITA; SOUTH AMERICA;

CYRTOGRAPSUS; CYRTOGRAPSUS ANGULATUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); FICOPOMATUS ENIGMATICUS; GRAPSIDAE; POLYCHAETA; SERPULIDAE;

EID: 4344608039     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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