Habitat bottlenecks in stage-structured species: Hermit crabs as a model system

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 276, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 197-207

  Halpern, Benjamin S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Hermit crabs; Juvenile habitat; Nursery habitat; Population bottlenecks; Population limitation; Recruitment limitation

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; CRAB; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; LIFE HISTORY; POPULATION SIZE; RECRUITMENT;

DECAPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; LITTORINA; LITTORINA SP.; LITTORINIDAE; PAGURIDAE; PAGURUS; PAGURUS HIRSUITISCULUS; PAGURUS SAMUELIS; TEGULA; TEGULA FUNEBRALIS; TROCHIDAE;

EID: 4444266332     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps276197     Document Type: Article

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