Modeling bedload transport of juvenile bivalves: Predicted changes in distribution and scale of postlarval dispersal

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1090-1102

  Hunt, Heather L ^a   Fugate, David C ^b,c   Chant, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bedload transport; Bivalves; Postlarval dispersal

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEDLOAD; BIVALVE; BURROWING; DISPERSAL; ENTRAINMENT; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; HYDRODYNAMICS; JUVENILE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SHEAR STRESS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TIDAL CURRENT;

NAVESINK ESTUARY; NEW JERSEY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BIVALVIA; GEMMA GEMMA; INVERTEBRATA; MYA; MYA ARENARIA;

EID: 70449573002     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-009-9205-5     Document Type: Article

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