Larval salinity tolerance of the South American salt-marsh crab, Neohelice (Chasmagnathus) granulata: Physiological constraints to estuarine retention, export and reimmigration

Helgoland Marine Research

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 93-102

  Anger, Klaus ^a   Spivak, Eduardo ^b   Luppi, Tomás ^b   Bas, Claudia ^b   Ismael, Deborah ^c  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^c Faculdade Evangelica do Parana FEPAR   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Crab; Estuarine; Export strategy; Larval development; Ontogeny of osmoregulation; Recruitment; Salinity stress; Varunidae

Indexed keywords

COASTAL WATER; CRAB; ESTUARINE ORGANISM; JUVENILE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LARVAL TRANSPORT; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SALINITY TOLERANCE; SALTMARSH; SURVIVAL; WATER RETENTION;

CHASMAGNATHUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GRAPSIDAE; RHIZOPHORACEAE; VARUNIDAE;

EID: 43849110887     PISSN: 1438387X     EISSN: 14383888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10152-007-0076-5     Document Type: Article

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