Latitudinal comparisons of reproductive traits in five Brachyuran species along the Chilean coast

Brante A.; Cifuentes, S; Portner, HO; Arntz W.; Fernandez, M.

Abstract

Understanding large-scale patterns in reproductive investment and fecundity of marine invertebrates is important for determining the critical environmental variables affecting reproduction and thus, the spatial patterns of population dynamics. However, information on patterns of reproduction of marine invertebrates at large spatial scales are either scarce, or have been conducted by mixing species with contrasting modes of development. Brachyuran crabs are an ideal group to analyze large-scale patterns of reproduction not only because many species are commercially exploited, but also because they show a single mode of larval development and wide distributional ranges. Here, we report latitudinal patterns of reproductive variables in five Brachyuran crab species along the coast of Chile (18-54

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Título según WOS: Latitudinal comparisons of reproductive traits in five Brachyuran species along the Chilean coast
Título según SCOPUS: Latitudinal comparisons of reproductive traits in five Brachyuran species along the Chilean coast
Título según SCIELO: Latitudinal comparisons of reproductive traits in five Brachyuran species along the Chilean coast
Título de la Revista: Revista chilena de historia natural
Volumen: 77
Número: 1
Editorial: Sociedad de Biología de Chile
Fecha de publicación: 2004
Página de inicio: 15
Página final: 27
Idioma: English
DOI:

10.4067/S0716-078X2004000100003

Notas: ISI, SCIELO, SCOPUS