Settlement, recruitment and potential predators and competitors of juvenile echinoderms in the rocky subtidal zone

Marine Biology

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 307-316

  Jennings, Lindsay B ^a   Hunt, Heather L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHINODERM; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; JUVENILE; LOBSTER; PREDATOR; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SETTLING BEHAVIOR; SUBSTRATE; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF FUNDY;

ASTERIAS; ASTEROIDEA; ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDEA; GASTROPODA; HOLOTHUROIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; LOBSTER; PSOLUS FABRICII; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS DROEBACHIENSIS;

EID: 77949266558     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-009-1318-7     Document Type: Article

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