Age and sex specific timing, frequency, and spatial distribution of horseshoe crab spawning in Delaware Bay: Insights from a large-scale radio telemetry array

Current Zoology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 563-574

  Smith, David R ^a   Brousseau, Lorne J ^b   Mandt, Mary T ^a   Millard, Michael J ^c  

^a LEETOWN SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b Cornell University Cooperative Extension ^*  (United States)

^c US Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Delaware bay; Limulus polyphemus; Marine arthropod; Radio telemetry; Spawning behavior; Xiphosurid

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; LIMULUS; LIMULUS POLYPHEMUS; MEROSTOMATA;

EID: 77958194776     PISSN: 16745507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/56.5.563     Document Type: Article

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