Differential emigration causes aggregation of the amphipod Corophium volutator (Pallas) in tide pools on mudflats of the upper Bay of Fundy, Canada

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 370, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 41-47

  Drolet, David ^a   Barbeau, Myriam A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Corophium volutator; Movement; Mudflats; Tide pools

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; AMPHIPOD; BURROWING; EMIGRATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MOVEMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; ROCK POOL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF FUNDY;

AMPHIPODA; COROPHIUM VOLUTATOR; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 59649097564     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2008.11.012     Document Type: Article

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