Sensitivity analysis of sea scallop (Placopecten magellanicus) larvae trajectories to hydrodynamic model configuration on Georges Bank and adjacent coastal regions

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 173-184

  Tian, Rucheng C ^a   Chen, Changsheng ^a,b   Stokesbury, Kevin D E ^a   Rothschild, Brian J ^a   Xu, Qichun ^a   Hu, Song ^a,b   Cowles, Geoffrey ^a   Harris, Bradley P ^a   Marino Ii, Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Georges Bank; Individual based model; Lagrangian tracking; Larval dispersion; Placopecten magellanicus; Sea scallop

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; COASTAL ZONE; FISHERY; FLOW FIELD; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; LARVAL TRANSPORT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SETTLING BEHAVIOR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; TRACER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GEORGES BANK;

PLACOPECTEN MAGELLANICUS;

EID: 65549123198     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2009.00506.x     Document Type: Article

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