Large-scale blue crab recruitment: linking postlarval transport, post-settlement planktonic dispersal, and multiple nursery habitats

By L. Etherington, D. Eggleston. 2000

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Density, abundance and survival of the blue crab in seagrass and unstructured salt marsh nurseries of Chesapeake Bay (2005, background): “In some cases, the youngest instars (J1–J5) emigrate from seagrass beds, apparently to avoid density-dependent cannibalism (Etherington and Eggleston, 2000; Blackmon and Eggleston, 2001; Reyns and Eggleston, 2004).”
Food availability and growth of the blue crab in seagrass and unvegetated nurseries of Chesapeake Bay (2005, background): “Other alternative nursery habitats for juvenile crabs include coarse woody debris (Everett and Ruiz, 1993), shallow water (Dittel et al., 1995; Hines and Ruiz, 1995), and marsh edge ( Etherington and Eggleston, 2000; Minello et al., 2003).”
Large-scale juvenile production of the blue crab Callinectes sapidus (2005, background): “Similarly, in North Carolina’s Pamlico Sound, a precipitous decline in adult abundance (down 74%), spawning stock (down 75%), young-of-the-year (down 63%), and postlarval stages (down 71%) of the blue crab has been recently observed (Etherington and Eggleston, 2000; Etherington et al., 2003).”
The relative importance of habitat-specific settlement, predation and juvenile dispersal for distribution and abundance of young juvenile shore crabs Carcinus maenas L. (2002, background): “Habitatspecific redistribution of early benthic stages was recently suggested also in juvenile blue crabs where size specific patterns in habitat use was demonstrated within nursery areas, although the mechanisms underlying the distribution in this species are still unknown (Pardieck et al., 1999; E”
Revealing stock–recruitment relationships in lobsters and crabs: is experimental ecology the key? (2003, background): “…such as vegetation or crevices among shells, play an important role in mitigating post-settlement mortality by cannibalistic individuals (Fernandez et al., 1993a,b; Eggleston and Armstrong, 1995; Pile et al., 1996; Eggleston et al., 1998c; Moksnes et al., 1998; Etherington and Eggleston, 2000).”