High resolution tracking of adult horseshoe crabs Limulus polyphemus in a New Hampshire estuary using fixed array ultrasonic telemetry

Current Zoology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 599-610

  Watson III, Winsor H ^a   Chabot, Christopher C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Estuary; Foraging; Mating; Movements; Telemetry; Tracking

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; LIMULUS; LIMULUS POLYPHEMUS; MEROSTOMATA;

EID: 77958188181     PISSN: 16745507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/56.5.599     Document Type: Article

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