Effects of morphodynamic and estuarine gradients on the demography and distribution of a sandy beach mole crab: Implications for source-sink habitat dynamics

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 398, Issue , 2009, Pages 193-205

  Celentano, Eleonora ^a   Gutiérrez, Nicolás L ^b   Defeo, Omar ^a  

^a Unidad en Desarrollo de Ciencias del Mar   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Demography; Emerita; Generalized additive models; Mole crab; Morphodynamics; Salinity; Sandy beaches

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEACH PROFILE; BIOMASS; BODY SIZE; CRAB; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; METAPOPULATION; MORPHODYNAMICS; SALINITY; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WAVE RUNUP;

URUGUAY;

ALBUNEA PARETII; ALBUNEIDAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EMERITA; EMERITA BRASILIENSIS; INSECTIVORA;

EID: 74049124207     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08342     Document Type: Article

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