Defining optimal freshwater flow for Oyster production: Effects of freshet rate and magnitude of change and duration on eastern oysters and perkinsus marinus infection

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 522-534

  La Peyre, Megan K ^a   Gossman, Bryan ^a,b   La Peyre, Jerome F ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Louisiana Department of Natural Resources   (United States)

Author keywords

Condition; Dermo; Disease; Freshwater diversion; Growth; Louisiana; Mortality; Oyster; Perkinsus; Protist parasite

Indexed keywords

DISEASE; GROWTH; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MORTALITY; OYSTER CULTURE; PARASITE; PROJECT ASSESSMENT; PROTIST; SALINITY; WATER FLOW;

LOUISIANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA; OSTREIDAE; PERKINSUS; PERKINSUS MARINUS; PROTISTA;

EID: 65049086800     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-009-9149-9     Document Type: Article

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