Newly settled invertebrates usually are subject to high rates of mortality (Type 111 survivorship). Therefore, knowledge of early post-settlement events is critical in determ …
Florida Bay, the shallow lagoon separating mainland Florida and the Florida Keys, USA, is experiencing an unprecedented series of ecological disturbances. In 1991, following reports …
JA Baisre - Spiny Lobsters Fisheries and Culture, 2000 - books.google.com
The fishery for Panulirus argus in the Western Central Atlantic is the largest spiny lobster fishery in the world and the most valuable single-species fishery in Cuba, accounting for …
WF Herrnkind, MJ Butler IV - Canadian Journal of Fisheries and …, 1997 - cdnsciencepub.com
We conducted a field experiment in the Florida Keys in which we manipulated Caribbean spiny lobster (Panulirus argus) settlement and shelter for juveniles to (i) investigate how …
As is true for many fish and invertebrate fisheries, stock–recruitment relationships remain poorly understood for most commercially important species of lobsters and crabs. This paper …
SG RATCHFORD, DB EGGLESTON - Animal Behaviour, 1998 - Elsevier
Caribbean spiny lobsters, Panulirus argus, reside solitarily during the first months postsettlement, but shift to gregarious shelter use in later juvenile stages, at sizes as small …
MA Steele, GE Forrester - Ecology, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Marine organisms suffer extensive mortality just after settling from the plankton, yet, little is known about the role that predators play in causing this mortality. We estimated the rates of …
CA Acosta, MJ Butler IV - Marine and freshwater research, 1997 - CSIRO Publishing
The use of mangrove prop roots and associated coralline habitats by Caribbean spiny lobsters was investigated near two types of mangrove islands in Belize. Spiny lobsters …