Development, biological regulation, and fate of ctenophore blooms in the York River estuary, Chesapeake Bay

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 369, Issue , 2008, Pages 153-168

  Condon, Robert H ^a,b   Steinberg, Deborah K ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Bermuda)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle; Chesapeake Bay; Chrysaora quinquecirrha; Climate; Cydippid larvae; Mnemiopsis leidyi; Reproduction; Scyphomedusae predation; York River

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON FLUX; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DATABASE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FIELD SURVEY; FOOD WEB; INVERTEBRATE; LARVAL TRANSPORT; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL; TROPHIC LEVEL;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA; YORK RIVER;

CHRYSAORA QUINQUECIRRHA; COPEPODA; CTENOPHORA (COELENTERATES); CYDIPPIDA; HYDROIDA; MNEMIOPSIS LEIDYI; SCYPHOMEDUSAE;

EID: 56149087547     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07595     Document Type: Article

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