Using spatial statistics to infer scales of demographic connectivity between populations of the blue mussel, Mytilus spp.

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 970-977

  Smith, Geneviève K ^a,c   Guichard, Frédéric ^a   Petrović, Filip ^a   McKindsey, Christopher W ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MAURICE LAMONTAGNE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADULT; BIVALVE; CONNECTIVITY; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; DISPERSAL; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; LARVA; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA]; SAINT LAWRENCE ESTUARY;

MYTILUS; MYTILUS EDULIS;

EID: 66149152246     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2009.54.3.0970     Document Type: Article

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