Slarval responses to turbulence and temperature in a tidal inlet: Habitat selection by dispersing gastropods?

Journal of Marine Research

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 153-188

  Fuchs, Heidi L ^a,b   Solow, Andrew R ^a   Mullineaux, Lauren S ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; GASTROPOD; HABITAT SELECTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LARVAL TRANSPORT; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SHELF DYNAMICS; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TURBULENCE;

BARNSTABLE HARBOR; MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED STATES;

ANACHIS; CREPIDULA; GASTROPODA; ILYANASSA OBSOLETA;

EID: 79960536309     PISSN: 00222402     EISSN: 15439542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1357/002224010793079013     Document Type: Article

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