Tropical storm and environmental forcing on regional blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) settlement

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 89-106

  Eggleston, David B ^a   Reyns, Nathalie B ^a   Etherington, Lisa L ^b   Plaia, Gayle R ^c   Xie, Lian ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue crab; Hurricanes; Larval dispersal; Recruitment; Settlement; Tropical storms

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE; CRAB; LARVAL TRANSPORT; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON;

ALBEMARLE ESTUARY; NORTH CAROLINA; PAMLICO ESTUARY; UNITED STATES;

CALLINECTES SAPIDUS;

EID: 77954380776     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2009.00530.x     Document Type: Article

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