Environmental and physiological controls of blue crab avoidance behavior during exposure to hypoxia

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 161-172

  Bell, Geoffrey W ^a,b   Eggleston, David B ^a   Noga, Edward J ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; AVOIDANCE REACTION; CRAB; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYPOXIA; MOVEMENT; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALIA; CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 70449578597     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/BBLv217n2p161     Document Type: Article

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